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It's no secret that we're big fans of the Trijicon ACOG here at T.REX ARMS and we're also pretty big fans of mounting reflex red dots on top of them. Now the traditional style for running a red dot on an ACOG is the older TA-31 with the RMR positioned in the rear. If you're using one of the newer battery powered ACOGS, you can run the RMR in the front. But this poses an interesting question. What if you don't wanna run an RMR and you wanna run a different optic? Something like an Aimpoint or maybe one of the budget red dots out there that uses the AIMpoint pattern. So over the last couple years we've been working on this particular amount or the concept behind it, to be able to mount different optics to the Trijicon ACOG, and specifically the battery powered one that puts the optic here in the front and it has a lot of advantages.
Now there's a couple nuances, uh, with mounting red dots to ACOG. So I'm gonna explain them because you have the battery powered series of ACOG that mounts red dots in the front, not the rear. And there's advantages to this. You don't have an RMR or an optic, against your forehead or against your head. Also if you're using it for passive aiming, under nods positioning the red.in the front is very useful. You have the larger ACOG's, in this case the battery powered 3.5x that can take red dots in the rear and in the middle front, but it's in the middle of the optic. The fiber optic 3.5, that again takes the optics, here in the rear but not in the front because of the fiber optic getting in the way of a mounting solution there. And then the standard TA31 that only has the mounting holes in the back because of the fiber optic.
So we have two styles of mount for the Aimpoint style of optic, and we have the pattern for the ACRO, which is a obviously proprietary and unique. And then we also have the pattern for the Aimpoint T2-T1 micro series, you know, which will obviously fit your primary arms is your SIG optics. Um, anything that uses the traditional four hole pattern, uh, that the aim point has, which is pretty cool. You could buy the ACOG, buy this particular amount, get a budget red dot out there, that's not, it's not horrible. It's not terrible. And you actually have a pretty cost effective reflex on top of your ACOG for close range shooting. And that's pretty cool compared to, you know, getting something a whole lot more, uh, expensive. So let's go ahead and show you guys mounting a reflex to the battery powered ACOG's and so you guys can kind of see what that looks like. Our Aimpoint mounts come with the screws necessary. So in this case for the Aimpoint micro, they come with four little screws you're gonna use for this. Uh, in this case I'm using an Aimpoint T1, uh, and the two screws for actually attaching the mount itself to the front of the ACOG. So let's go ahead and put the uh, optic on the mount. Optic first. There we go.
As you will see, we're not trying to hide it, but our business partner is ARISAKA. Great company, great people, excellent tolerances on the product and that's why we trusted them to make, uh, this product to the highest of quality. So we have the four screws that are attached to the optic. I've given them a half turn to ensure good tightness. We've got blue Loctite so they shouldn't come loose on me. And now all we have to do is drop that onto an ACOG. This case, I've got two here. They are the same. I've got a Chevron I think and a crosshair and we're just gonna drop that here on the front. Take the two screws, which are pre-Loctite with the yellow industrial stuff.
And you'll probably notice that hey, I've got the battery cap and the, the windage turnoff. And the reason for this is it's a little bit of a tight fit right here to install a screw, next to the battery cap and the windage turn itself. But this particular Allen key can actually slip between them once you have removed both so you can actually get this screw installed. So I do recommend, otherwise you can't really fit an Allen wrench in there doing that and you'll see that it fits just fine and they're just gonna tighten that down. So there we have it. We've got the Aimpoint T1 mounted right on top. So really nice for that, you know, heads up acquisition you know, if I have to run it on 1x and it also is very easy to use under night vision and it's far enough forward that my night vision aren't going to hit it like my binos or you know, whatever. So on a rifle, this is roughly what it looks like.
So when I'm getting a sight picture with the ACOG, which has a 1.5 inch eye relief, I have the ACOG position in the rear of the rifle so that I, you know, can have my stock still extended or you know, decently. So I have a good length of pull, but I can also get a good eye relief at the ACOG. So I can literally be on the ACOG perfect sight picture, not a problem, raise my head up and I have the T1 ready to go. I may have a little bit of my chin touching the stock for a little bit of a reference point, but this does end up being like a two point, 5' height, something like that. But it's actually pretty close to a lot of those high speed, really trendy mounts out there that people are using just to run their Aimpoint and then maybe magnifier behind it.
So you do have that heads up shooting position and there's plenty of room right here as you can see for night vision, for passive aiming, which you wouldn't have if you were running the traditional TA-31 with the RMR mounted in the rear. It's just not as easy to use with night vision cuz it's right back here, right in your eyeball. And that's why we like mounting our red dots further forward on the ACOG, whether it's an RMR or an Aimpoint. And speaking of that, this is just the Aimpoint when we went out and had ARISAKA make us an Aimpoint and an ACRO adapter for the ACOG to mount those optics. ricon already has a RMR version. Uh, so if you wanna just run the RMR on top of your ACOG, save some weight, maybe you already have an ACOG, uh, you can go ahead and get this, uh, from Trijicon or from us to run this particular step right here with the same ACOG battery powered.
But with the little RMR micro in the front. And as you can see, it's still, you know, heads up shooting position. But it is a open amended red dot. So if it's raining debris, mud, blood and guts, that could potentially obscure your optic, or the LED specifically. And then you don't have a sight picture and that's where something like the Aimpoint T1-T2 or another enclosed tubular optic can be really nice on top of your rifle, on top of your ACOG. So this one's pretty straightforward. This is the short Aimpoint T.REX ARMS ARISAKA ACOG Mount. It only works on the battery powered ACOG. It will not work on the T31. It will not work on these battery powered, you know, the battery powered 3.5, the large one or the fiber optic large one. It only works on the smaller battery powered, TA 2 and that is it. So let's get into the next model of a point ACOG adapter, mount that has a little bit more nuance to it. So we're gonna have to dive into that.
So I've got this Aimpoint T1 attached to the tall mounts we have short for the battery powered TA2 and we have talls for the T-31, the 3.5, but there's some nuance right here just because I can put a T1 on this mount. And this mount is compatible with the TA 31 ACOG, which we sell, the classic, you know, TA 31. I do not recommend doing this right here. And the reason for that is when you go to get a sight picture and you go to get your eye relief with your one and a half, you know, uh, one and a half inch eye relief for this optic, your forehead will hit this optic, or at least most people's foreheads will hit this optic. If you have a mount on your helmet, you're not getting a sight picture at all with the ACOG that's gonna be impacting the same point and it's just not going to work.
So you may ask, well, why on earth did you make an Aimpoint mount for this particular ACOG mounted to the rear? If it doesn't allow a sight picture, well we didn't really make this for the T-31 specifically, I recommend if you are running a T-31, you get the traditional standard arm mount, which keeps everything a little bit tucked in and you know, further forward your helmet mounts, you know, can still touch like the edge of the RMR as you are getting a sight picture, but it's not quite as bad as a T 2 that as you can see protrudes and is taller overall; wind mounted here in the rear position. But if you're running the 3.5 ACOG or I'll start with this one, the fiber optic. This is actually very doable mounting this to the rear cuz as you'll see it's flush fit with where the optic begins, where the ACOG begins.
The eye relief on this ones like 2.5 times. So to get eye relief on this optic, I'm fine. I have plenty of clearance from the Aimpoint to my helmet, my mount my head. It's not gonna be a problem if I have the battery powered version of this particular ACOG. I can mount it both in the rear sort of traditional style or I can mount it to the middle which is actually a very dope setup if that's something that you're into. And I have plenty of room for my night vision for passive aiming. I have my 3.5 times ACOG for when I want to drop down and you know, take a further shot or do whatever. Um, so this mount is a little bit more in some ways specialized. You really gotta know what you're doing with it.
It really only has use case on this particular model of ACOG. So, but if you wanna try it on the T 31 cuz you've got one, a salty one from that fell off of a truck or something, by all means give it a shot or give the ACRO a shot. But I don't recommend it. It's not something that's generally going to work super well, but when it comes to running the battery powered and running the Aimpoint in the front, that was the original intended purpose and use case for this particular product, it works very well. We realized, hey, we need to go ahead and make an Aimpoint mount for the other, ACOGs as well, uh, specifically the 3.5x's for folks who have 'em. So you have a way of mounting Aimpoint's or ACRO to those ACOG's if you're using them. And you don't wanna have an open emitter, RMR or something on your ACOG. So that's roughly what it looks like. If you have any other questions, you can email us at [email protected].