Home Forums Hunting & Shooting AR and Tactical Rifles Any of you guys use Holosun on your AR's?

If it makes you feel better, Holosun is based in California.

Does it have a good battery in it? Shake awake is almost instant. Sounds like the battery is dead and it's resorting to the solar power.

You didn't type your response on that Nokia.

Ya it could be set in auto brightness mode (which sucks no matter the country of origin). I didn’t think about that.

Didn't realize that when having the same sight being discussed on a different type of weapon was an issue.
It is an auto mode but only one time is it acted funky and I think it's cuz it is in the dark for too long and the battery is down weak or bad whatever you want to say. Now that said that might be a drawback to your solar back up because you might not know your battery is dead until it's stored in the dark for a long period of time? Let it charges up enough to turn the reticle on within just a few minutes. So unless grabbed and used immediately someone might not know this I might get it out take it to the range get it back out of a case that sits around for a few minutes you know the drill.

I have a Trijicon SRO that sees use once or twice a week minimum.

It was set to auto when I took it off the shelf and it has stayed there ever since.

There are zero issues with the auto brightness and motion activation.

The RMR that I had was a good sight but it stayed on manual adjust because the auto adjust only worked for the light it was in not necessarily the light you were aiming in. I hated the distorted view though and the window was quite small. The SRO is a great improvement in usage but not recommended for duty use. Expensive and fragile.

Type 2 RMR 06 on an M&P9 CORE.

I’m now shooting Glock 19’s and as I said this new MOS version has the 507C mounted with the FCD plate. The difference in window size from the RMR is huge though it doesn’t measure that much bigger. No tint or distortion/magnification.

I’ve got a buddy that is an instructor for a large state agency here and he runs a red dot course. He’s running over 100 guys through this 1200 round course and so far recommends the RMR or the 507C. He also shoots matches, which is how I met him. He was shooting a 507c then and is now shooting the RMR.

If this red dot thing works for me, I’ll get another RMR or an ACRO P2 but until I know for sure, I’m fine with the Holosun.

For those not familiar, this guy maintains a data sheet on all things pistol mounted red dots.

You might find it useful if you're in the market.

https://www.sagedynamics.org/

That's a good read - thanks

I was at the range with a buddy yesterday and he was using a new Holosun on his "work" rifle. He had to make sure it was dialed in for SWAT testing. I was pretty impressed with it as he was hitting a 2 moa orange dot with it consistently. Laying down consistent 1 1/2" 3 shot groups at 100. He had to replace a Vortex red dot that gave up the ghost the other day. A lot of his buddies use the Holosun, so it came highly recommended to him. He said he's used to using eotechs and Aimpoints when he was a contractor, but likes this Holosun with the solar panel on it. I guess battery life is phenomenal. Wondering how durable they are though? What have been your guys' experience.

If a person wants to run any optic on an AR they need to have a candid conversation with themselves about what they intend to use that AR for.

"Groups" and red dots rarely mix. It's not the point of a red dot.

I do find comments regarding solar panels and battery life a bit curious because most are advertised as having 20K and north levels of battery life. Holosun gets particularly weird because they adopted the EoTech style reticle, but most fail to recognize that use of that reticle cuts battery life in half. Holosun is also heavy on solar panels. How is this solar panel helping you? How are you/we affirming the fugking thing even works? How many hours per day are you spending with your weapon while exposed to the sun? And if you are spending eight or ten hours in the sun with your weapon, how are we measuring the benefit of these solar panels on an optic that is advertised as having a life of five fugking years?

If somebody tells me they have left the battery running in an AimPoint Micro or Trijicon MRO for four years (I have) I can believe them. If you give that same account regarding a Holosun, I gotta kinda wonder if you understand the concept of time.

Companies like Holosun really shine because they provide a shooter with limited budget to validate "proof of concept" regarding something they may not have otherwise been able to give a go. Of course proof of concept involves things like specified target size, range at which it is engaged, and the time a respective shooter required to ensure hits with one type of sight vs. another. If you're not objectively looking at these things, what's the point?

I don't expect most shooters to become that involved but I do expect them to please understand that a company like Trijicon or Aimpoint isn't going to reinvent the wheel every time a handful of jerkoffs think that maybe something might work a smidge better on the rifle that sees 54 rounds a decade. When you introduce electronics into an optic, you can rest assured reliability will go south if it's not engineered and built correctly. Companies like Trijicon and Aimpoint exhaust all options to ensure these things work. Others, not so much...

Last but not least, tactics is the employing of available means to accomplish an end.

So before equipping your AR, shotgun, or overall bad guy shooter, you need to ask what that end is. Otherwise you're just wasting your and everyone else's time.

But all those facts make a spontaneous purchase so difficult.