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Ep-16: AR-15 Optics Bible! BUIS vs. Red Dot Sight vs. Holographic vs. Prism vs. LPVO vs. Magnifiers

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Doesn’t matter if you’re looking at the best AR-15 Red Dot Sight; EOTech, Holosun, Trijicon, Truglo or AT3 Tactical… You NEED to know what job each AR-15 Sight or Optic has…and more importantly when one is better than the other!

00:00 – Intro
01:45 – Iron Sights aka. BUIS
02:03 – Height Over Bore
03:20 – Sight Radius
07:50 – AR-15 Red Dot Sights
08:37 – Eye Relief
10:28 – Red Dot Co-Witnessing
12:22 – How Reflex Sights Work
12:58 – Red Dot Types & Features
19:06 – Holographic Sights
20:55 – Holographic Types & Features
21:50 – Magnified Optics
22:36 – Parallax Error
23:28 – Fixed Prism Optics
26:07 – LPVO’s – Low Powered Variable Optics
26:51 – Focal Planes
30:57 – LPVO’s Not Scopes?
32:24 – LPVO Types & Features
34:39 – Scopes (Real Scopes)
35:10 – Red Dot Magnifiers
36:25 – Magnifier Types & Features
37:13 – AR-15 Optics Maintenance
37:42 – Basic AR-15 Maintenance

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22 COMMENTS

  1. Great breakdown of sight options, Trijicon and Meprolight have reflex sights that don't use batteries. While they are pricey I had a reflex that I used that lasted 12 years before the element had to be replaced.

  2. My god, i feel like i have a masters in optics now! Thank you so much for doing this. I was so lost in the world optics but i now have a very good understanding of the subject matter. Great vid 🤙👊

  3. I remember shooting my friends AMT Automag in 30 carbine that gun was so much fun to shoot the fireballs and percussion were insane! I wish I bought it off him when he had it for sale 🤦‍♂️

  4. Not sure why, but YT has made Epi 17 unavailable to me. Overall, these videos have been tremendous and extremely informative. Started building my own and these videos have helped me to make decisions on how to set mine up. Thanks very much Randy and AT3.

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