Aimpoint Shoots to Make Micro Sights More Convenient

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Aimpoint Shoots to Make Micro Sights More Convenient
Now pre-mounted, Aimpoint's Micro Sights are ready to go on to a firearm straight from the box.
Now pre-mounted, Aimpoint's Micro Sights are ready to go on to a firearm straight from the box.
Now pre-mounted, Aimpoint's Micro Sights are ready to go onto a firearm straight from the box.

With a reputation for accuracy, durability and innovation, Aimpoint has become one of the go-to choices in AR optics. And earlier this month, the Swedish company gave shooters more than just its aiming solutions' reliability as a reason to slap one on their black rifle.

Aimpoint has added a level of convenience to two of its most popular, not to mention unobtrusive, optics by releasing them in pre-mounted versions. Both the Micro T-2 and Micro H-2 are now ready to go straight from the box to a Picatinny Rail with the addition of the company's Lever Release Picatinny Mount. And this new configuration not only makes the red-dot optics potentially easier to use, but also should help save shooters some money by allowing one sight to serve on multiple rifles.

The new T-2 and H-2 models have a number of features that should win over even the most discerning shooters. Perhaps the most eye-catching is the ability to dismount and re-mount the optics without having to reset the zero – as long as the red-dot is placed in its original position. But the Micro sights also have a few other bells and whistles that could turn heads.

The LPM's pressure adjustment ensures the optics always have a rock-solid mount on a Picatinny Rail. And they both also come with a 39mm spacer, allowing them to work seamlessly in conjunction with backup iron sights. The spacer can also be removed to provide a lower optical axis for use on shotguns or sub-machine guns.

Even before these pre-mounted versions came out, the T-2 and H-2 optics appeared to offer shooters plenty. In particular, at 4.6 ounces in weight and 2 inches in height, each aiming solution adds next to nothing in the overall weight and profile of a firearm. On top of that, with a 2 MOA red dot (the H-2 as a 4 MOA dot version, as well), the optics offer shooters plenty of leeway in application. The optics' dot should prove small enough to help it reach out from its usual close-quarters role and snap off a long shot.

The MSRP of the optics were not available at Aimpoint's website. But, online retailers have the new pre-mounted H-2 an T-2 in the $700-$800 neighborhood.


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Elwood Shelton is the Digital Editor for Gun Digest. He lives in Colorado and has provided coverage on a vast spectrum of topics for GD for more than a decade. Before that, he was an award-winning sports and outdoors reporter for a number of newspapers across the Rocky Mountains. His experience has consisted of covering the spread of chronic wasting disease into the Western Slope of Colorado to the state’s ranching for wildlife programs. His passion for shooting began at a young age, fostered on pheasant hunts with his father. Since then, he has become an accomplished handloader, long-range shooter and avid hunter—particularly mule deer and any low-down, dirty varmint that comes into his crosshairs. He is a regular contributor to Gun Digest Magazine and has contributed to various books on guns and shooting, most recently Lever-Actions: A Tribute to the All-American Rifle.

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