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The model numbers for the EOTECH line of red dots can be a little confusing at times, but there's really only one thing you have to understand about the optics to really tell the difference between the two sort of families of red dots. The EXPS line, so there's an E at the beginning of XPS, is going to be the red dots that are sit at a lower third height. They also feature a quick detached lever, so this nice cutie lever, uh, to attach to the gun. And it sits once again at lower third height. So it's a more traditional optic as far as the height, the EXPS line of EOTECH, uh, these right here are going to be sitting at an absolute co witness so they sit much lower to the gun and they feature a simple allen screw that is going to attach the optic to the gun. Now both of these have the mounts built in, so you don't have to go out and, you know, buy a mount from another company in order to start using it on a gun, but they do set at different heights. The EXPS-3 also has all the buttons to articulate the brightness, uh, night vision modes and everything else on the side. And then the EXPS series has all of that in the back. Now let's talk about mounting some of these to the gun. We'll start with the Ps. It is a QD lever and we'll take this knight's rifle.
And what you may realize, you know, it comes right outta the box, the battery's already installed. All you have to do is dump it on the gun is you may have to loosen or tighten the QD lever itself. What you don't want is the lever really easy to snap into place really loose cuz that can actually mean that the optic is gonna be loose and wobbly on the rail and you will not have a good zero, you will not have good accuracy and that's just a bad way to set your equipment. I like to have it tightened down so that it is relatively difficult to snap the lever into place. So it's a tight fit. Then I take the optic, you can change the tightness of the latch with the screw over here, just open the latch up and then turn it. That's pretty good. I'm pretty happy with that. Then to undo the lever, if you need to, you press down on the, basically the little safety right here on the side. And then you are going to pull the lever. Once again, kind of, kind of difficult to pull, you know, to disengage, but that's what you want for your optic. And then you're good to go to zero.
And get it all squared away. So let's talk about mounting the EXPS EOTECH. So like I said before, it is going to be using a standard allen wrench, which is included. So I have the optic right here and the allen wrench to go with it. Batteries installed on the right side of the optic, just like on the P it's a simple CR123. Just remove it, put a new one in when you need to. So we're gonna ensure that the latch is nice and loose. So you can see right there, take the rifle. And for this, I've never gotten out a torque driver to do it, you know, to make sure it's perfect. I just make sure it's nice and tight.
And I haven't had an issue with these coming loose, even on bigger guns like 308 caliber or rifles. So there you go, the optics ready to go. Now because it does require an allen key to remove, tighten and loosen, that's kind of annoying, uh, compared to, you know, having something with a latch. So it is something to take into consideration from, you know, logistical standpoint. So, but if you have allen keys, you know, in your, your range bags and your, you know, your or even your kit even, uh, you shouldn't have a problem, but it is something to think about if you choose this optic. And as you can see now, when I flip up my iron sights, they are going to be sitting at a more standard height in relation to the EOTECH. So if you are an absolute co-witness kind of a guy and uh, you want that, uh, then definitely look into this optic. But this optic is also particularly useful on guns that already have tall risers or tall mounting solutions like on this, uh, like on this AK 74. And so I don't necessarily wanna put an EXPS three on this gun, which is gonna be extra tall on top of that. So I'm gonna use the shorter EOTECH to kind of keep it a little bit lower. Or on a gun like this, MP5, which is already, you know, a pretty tall gun, it could drop the EPS on there or for the EXPS.
So in this case I have that nice low EOTECH to go on this more traditional gun. So I can have a little more cheek on the, on the MP5 itself versus having the emo, which will sit a little bit taller as a lower third. So that's the advantages to these. But if you also are looking for an optic to run as a dedicated magnifier, uh, weapon, so like, let's take this, uh, you know, this, this knight's armament gun or, or maybe you're doing a 7.62 gun or something. The single dot EOTECH is a very refined sight picture with a 3x magnifier or even a 5x magnifier. So if you are looking for that gun that's gonna have a magnifier on it at all times, you might wanna consider getting that one as you don't have the, uh, bullseye ring around the edge to potentially distract and or cover the target. All you have is that really crisp one MOA dot and in my opinion, the EOTech, it's really one of the best optics out there when it comes to a refined single m MOA dot. And so the fact that they make a model granted the EXPS model, uh, with a single dot gives you a lot of options if that's something that you're looking for.
The EOTECH magnifiers on the market feature a riser plate that allows you to run the magnifier taller or shorter. They did this for their two different heights of EOTECH. So in this case I have the G33 without the riser plate installed, and that is going to made up very nicely. As you can see, I'll have to loosen them out, but you can kind of get an idea of what's going on. Um, it is set up very nicely with the EXPS model and if I were to use the XPS instead, I would then mount the riser plate that is included with the magnifier and I would be good to go. So if you were thinking of running the single MOA EOTECH and you wanna run this magnifier with it, uh, this is more or less what it's gonna look like without the riser plate installed.
The XPS-3 and the XPS-3 models feature a night vision button. Now I think some people out there have thought that that makes your optic turn into night vision. It doesn't do that. What it is is a shortcut to dropping the brightness of your optic instantly when you hit the button. It also brings the optic much lower as far as the range of how bright you can make the optic within that setting. And when you want to come out of that really low, you know, range of settings for the optic, you, all you have to do is hit the button one more time and it will return to the standard daylight bright settings. Uh, where there are a lot of, you know, you can throttle up and down in that, uh, accordingly if you have the Xbs two, which was does not have the night vision setting, so that button will not be there on the optic, it could still go very dim and is still usable for passive aiming, uh, you know, shooting.
Although the night vision settings do make this optic, uh, very crisp. So if you're doing a lot of night vision stuff, I do recommend getting the models that do have the night vision button. It is a very fast way of quickly throttling the brightness of the optic, getting an extremely clear site picture through your night vision. And this is one of the optics, again, it has one of the clearest site pictures under night vision. So that's definitely something to think about if you're night vision user having that little button right there that you can click at any time and get the optic nice and bright. And if you're not a night vision user, you accidentally hit that button while trying to get your optic nice and bright. You'll, you won't see anything and you, you won't know what's going on. You'll think the battery is dead. Make sure you hit that button once to see if you were just in the night vision, uh, range of settings to come back to the normal, normal, uh, daylight bright. And then maybe you don't need to change out a battery needlessly. If you have any other questions about the EOTECH line of products or even other products of theirs that we don't sell, but we use and know about, uh, shoot us an email at [email protected].