Reviews: Optics and Sights

Seeing the Unseeable

By Tom McHale|2025-11-03T22:08:52-05:00November 3rd, 2025|

Most people think of “night vision” as those green glow images of commandos from old spy movies and the covers of Tom Clancy books. That’s not wrong, but it’s only half the story. Night vision and thermal vision both let us see when our eyes can’t, but they do it in completely different ways. One amplifies what little light there is. The other ignores “seeing” with light entirely and reveals the invisible world of heat and the lack thereof.

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Unbreakable Aiming Solution: Trijicon Green RMR

By Tom McHale|2025-10-29T17:06:49-04:00October 29th, 2025|

For just about 16 years now, some variation of the Trijicon RMR red dot sight has set the durability and ruggedness standard for rifle and pistol optics. Now there’s a new one.

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Trijicon RCR Red Dot

By Tom McHale|2024-03-20T08:56:20-04:00March 20th, 2024|

There are real benefits to a full-enclosed red dot sight where the emitter is not exposed to the world at large. Rain, snow and even lint easily make their way into the tiny nooks and crannies where the magic light exits the computer to be beamed onto the glass itself. An equally real first-world problem is the inside surface of the glass on traditional optics tends to collect dust and it’s tough to reach for proper cleaning.

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Small and Fabulous: Holosun EPS Carry

By Tom McHale|2024-02-14T16:16:12-05:00February 14th, 2024|

Carry a subcompact? Check this out. Tiny, but with amazing visibility and the reticle is fantastic—easy to pick up and flexible for close and fast or farther and more deliberate aim. Cool stuff...

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