you might not have ever heard of this thing before but let me explain why I
have the GG&G multi aperture device attached to my ar-15 instead of one of
the other multitudinous backup sites out there even if you hadn't heard of the
multi aperture device before I'm sure from that little video clip you started
to figure out what that's all about it typically an ar-15 or an m16 is going to
have a peep sight at the rear and then a you know kind of a post up at the front
and there will be maybe two apertures at the back that you can kind of flip
between one of them is small one of them is large and one is kind of for close
quarters sort of work and then if you're stepping things back and you want to get
more precise then you flip up the other they're in kind of the same plane they
both hit the same point of aim it's just one is a little larger than the other
this is my Rock River ar-15 just the base model in yeah just 223 wild has a
couple little upgrades it has an extra heavy barrel and it has this flip front
sight up here which is really easy to use you just press a little button pops
down and flip it up and then as long as you don't push the button it pretty well
stays locked in place now much like the front sight this has just a single
little button on this side you can push and you can flip it down this those away
and as soon as you're ready just pop it up and then it kind of locks into place
up top and what makes this so different from the m16 or other ar-15 basic sights
that you'll see out there is that instead of having one or two apertures
of different sizes this has five different apertures that are all the
same size what they do though is that they change
height in the plane so here is the zero this will handle pretty much everything
up to 200 yards switch over to three so if you're stepping back to 300 yards put
it on three four hundred yards five hundred yards and then six hundred yards
and we'll take a look at this up close so you can see what's happening take a
good close look as I switch between the two extremes I'm gonna go between the
six hundred yard mark and that kind of 200 yard mark and I want you to watch
this read up here the the actual little hole the aperture it's going to shift
you can see this one is kind of partially occluded by the top of this
little front frame here but if I twist over to 200 it's right in the center you
can see it's much lower and again I'll switch back so you can get a good look
pretty slick isn't it this is a bullet drop compensating rear iron sight and
now naturally this won't work with every rifle every load this was developed
specifically for a 16 inch ar-15 m16 whatever something with a 16 inch barrel
this little carbine and it's developed for the m193 load the 55 grain
full-metal-jacket or for the m855 apparently the the trajectories of the
two are so similar that it kind of works in there and you know since you're our
using iron sights it doesn't have to be more precise than that and as far as in
my own use I've seen that the two really do have very similar points of
impact they're very similar trajectories as far as I know this site has been
around for a good long while and I'm really surprised that I don't ever see
anybody using one of these things either in a YouTube video or in real life out
here at the range I'm the first person I've ever seen actually use one of these
things of course you'll see the Magpul sights you'll see the built-in ones you
might see Troy or yhm you might see arms but this one for some reason just
doesn't seem to get much press and I'm really rather shocked by it it does
appeal to a certain nerdy type of person I'm I consider myself a
semi precision rifleman I I really enjoy figuring out the ballistics of different
things I know like hitting small objects a long distance like prairie dogs
but I really am surprised that I don't see more of these in addition to the
really cool bullet drop compensator you've already seen that this thing
folds flat but what isn't readily apparent is how flat it folds this thing
is just tiny as far as I can tell this is the flattest folding sight that you
can have for an ar-15 the embossed ones get really flat and
the arms 4tl that's also a really thin one but I don't know if they get as low
as this and part of the reason is that it just doesn't have those ears that you
normally get on a rear aperture sight now that is going to take away some of
the protection that everything would get up here the little apertures here but
it's still pretty solid it's it's a steel construction with some aluminum
parts I think this set his face right here is aluminum the rest of Steel not
entirely sure on that but this thing just folds down super flat to get under
optics and you've probably seen in my my Falcon video that I have a 30 millimeter
Falcon scope that I mean it just fits over the top of this and if I had some
of these thicker sights yeah they fold down a little bit but you
just don't get much room you'd have to get some massive massive scope rings to
get any optic up over the top of this fortunately this one is so flat that
I've had no trouble with any optics that I've ever mounted on this I've put on a
great big twenty five power scope with a 44 millimeter bail the the Falcon is a
44 millimeter bail and I just have to have a one-inch high ring which is a
little bit on the high side but it still just fits right on top some of the
drawbacks to this particular site are obvious some of them aren't you've
already seen that there isn't all that much protection
here so if this were deployed and you dropped it you're just hoping that this
is you know sturdily built enough that it's not going to mess things up too
badly I think that you probably have a better chance that this would hold up
then something of the more optical nature like a scope or probably a red
dot sighted be tougher but a scope at least you'd have a chance that something
we've been something would be thrown off but yeah this is just a little bit on
the weak side you can definitely get stronger ones
some other things you get only horizontal adjustment right here and
it's a pretty coarse adjustment I believe this is half MOA per click
that's really not too bad for an iron sight you know a quarter that's that
might be a little over the top there is no vertical adjustment so any type of
vertical that you want to do you have to do up front so you have to mess with
this post right here and you can see that mine is sticking out just a little
bit I had to bring this up a little bit in order to get everything working on
this end this last sticking point will only affect a handful of people there
are folks like Travis Haley that believe that a rear sight should be set at a
hundred yards and he has some really good reasons for saying that in this
case though this is set up so you start at 200 that zero mark has to be at 200
and then you work your way back and that's the only way that the ballistic
compensator works if you're going to be hitting things at 600 yards you have to
have this zero sighted in at 200 so Travis Haley and company won't be
interested but in my case I keep everything pretty well tuned up to 200
yards my optics are usually set at 200 that's my most common prairie dog shot
and I just like to use that as my basic starting point in addition to the multi
aperture device that I just showed you today there are two new models there's
one that's made mostly of titanium and that thing's pretty cool it has this the
same wheel at the back everything's the same it's just a little tougher and then
there's a model that has tritium on the sides of the apertures and this one only
has four apertures so I'm not sure if it actually does bullet drop compensation
it has different sizes and then it has it has the little nightlight so you can
kind of find it in the dark so again I'm not sure if that one has
bullet drop compensation you might read up on it and see what it does what I'd
like to see someday is one of these aperture wheels that instead of having
circular apertures has hexagons or something polygonal like that or
diamonds because apparently those are much easier to line up that center post
right in the middle if you look up hex sight it looks like a really brilliant
idea so I'd be curious to see what that would look like in the wheel back here
you