Reflex/Red Dot

Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner. Last week, we took a look at the best cover garments. If you happened to miss that article be sure to click the link here to give it a read. This week, I want to talk about the benefits of having a red dot sight on your carry gun. I was recently in a local hardware store that also sells firearms. The store employee was talking the guy out of a Trijicon RMRcc and told him to just keep the iron sights. It was an interesting argument but if you start carrying with an optic, it will start to show just how fast it is to find your sight with a red dot optic. Let’s take a closer look at some of the good as well as bad aspects of carrying with a red dot in our red dot rundown.

A few weeks back I took my concealed carry pistol to the range for some much-needed practice. When I drew and acquired a sight picture, the only thing that went through my mind was “what the hell is that thing.” I had been shooting red dot sight-equipped pistols exclusively for months on end. In the time leading up to this practice trip, I had shot a few steel challenge matches, USPSA matches and took a course – all with red dot equipped pistols. The thing in my sight picture happened to be a steel sight post. Whether I liked it or not, the caveman tool sitting on the top deck of the slide turned out to be jarring.

Bottom-of-the-Barrel Price, High Tier Quality? New AT3 Tactical ARO-Mini Red Dot

Riton has released their new 1 Tactix ARD 2 (AR dot), a red dot packed with features for a price that may be more friendly to budget-minded shooters. Riton intends the 1 Tactix ARD 2 to be geared toward carbine, AR pistol, and shotgun applications where a simple and affordable aiming solution is needed without sacrificing adaptability. Let’s check out some of the specs and features.

Pistol red dots are a fairly common thing these days. We’ve come a long way since the early days of mounting gigantic optics like the early Aimpoint and Tasco red dots to the frames of 1911s. We can now mount some excellent optics, directly on our pistol slides, and the options at this point are virtually endless - it just depends on what you want to do with it. Vortex has been putting in a lot of work lately to expand its pistol and rifle optics line to be as comprehensive as possible. Standard RMR-type designs were some of their first ventures into the pistol-mounted optics category, but Vortex quickly upped the game by putting in their bid to the “large window” pistol red dot category. Primarily intended for competition shooters who value a large viewing window, the Vortex Defender XL is the company’s equivalent of Trijicon’s RMR HD, Holosuns 507COMP, or Shield’s RMSX. Today we’re going to check out what it offers, how it’s priced for its specific sector of the pistol optics market, and some of my thoughts on my experiences with it over the last 9 months.

Luke C (  @BallisticAviation  ) is talking with Jordan from Meprolight Optics about some of their latest updates to the M22 line of self-illuminated optics, as well as a new magnifier they've just debuted in 2024. The new MMX3 magnifier is a more compact and more adaptable version of the previous Meprolight 3X magnifier and comes in at a price of about $350 MSRP. Meanwhile, the successor to the M21, the M22, is getting a new light module kit for even more self-illumination options, as well as a new polarizer for use in brightly lit environments.

Join James Reeves of TFBTV at the SIG Next event as he dives into the details of two innovative red dot sights from SIG Sauer: the ROMEO-X Enclosed Pro and the ROMEO-X Enclosed Compact.

Meprolight has added new open emitter red dot sights to their catalog, including today’s subject, the Meprolight MPO-F. The MPO-F is a Full-size and full-featured red dot sight with the RMR footprint, battery door, two-button operation and three reticle options. I recently reviewed the smaller MPO-S with the RMSc footprint, but with the larger footprint of the MPO-F, also comes a larger objective lens for viewing targets. Let’s take a look.

Join James Reeves of TFBTV at the SIG Next event as he showcases the newly revealed ROMEO3MAX Pro optic. This advanced red dot sight is designed for precision and speed, making it ideal for both competitive shooting and tactical applications.