howdy y'all welcome to the social regressive i'll bet that when the census comes out they're going
to find that there are an average of three eh arks out there for every one person in the u.s
okay that's a bit of hyperbole but still there are a ton of things out there right now and they
are flying off the shelves for actually some pretty darn good reasons and a lot of us are
trying to figure out how to outfit these to be what we need for whatever scenario we envision
we might run into some of us that are going to depend on these for defense we have lots
of hunters that are using these now there are all kinds of great reasons to own an eh are
they you know for one thing they're semi-auto they're accurate and they're just kind of what
everything is billed around now you can get all kinds of cool parts and stuff so what we're going
to do today is we're going to take a look at a set of iron sights that i think are going to be
attractive to a lot of you guys now check out the previous video that i did on the ultradyne
c2 sites these are some ones that are going to head in a little bit of a different direction
they're going to be billed like tanks and they're going to command a higher price tag
today we're going to be looking at something that heads in a different direction these are the
blackhawk hybrid folding sites and these have been out for i think a little bit less than a year now
i have tested these out in the field and i just love them so we're going to delve into these to
see what these are made of the first thing i need to point out about the blackhawk hybrid folding
sites is how low they sit look at that these are teeny tiny when they're folded down they're going
to have no trouble getting under the bell of your scope pretty much no matter what you have
and as a test here i have my falcon s8i highly recommended scope and you
can see that that is the amount of clearance that we have it's like we could fit another
set of sights underneath that is incredible the first thing you might think is whoa okay these
are plastic and they're very thin they're gonna break right well that's the hybrid part of these
these are not just plastic even though a lot of the exterior that you see here is on the
inside this actually has a skeleton of metal and i'm not exactly sure what all is in there
i can see that certain parts on here are aluminum some are steel of course we have
steel threaded rod running through holding the aperture in place and i think that these little
knobs that attach to it here i'm pretty sure that these are aluminum they feel like aluminum
and we have steel running through back here we're going to have a steel spring and detent that holds
this up into place this should not move under recoil unless you're i don't know shoeing 300
win mag or something that might knock them down but for anything else i think that these are going
to be pretty stout and remain in place and then of course we have the allen head screw that attaches
this is how it attaches to the picatinny rail and this is a 3 30 seconds allen key that i'm using
to attach these on here and this is probably going to take about the same as the c2
sights probably about 15 pound inches of torque on this so if you just use the short end of your
wrench that should be plenty of torque to hold these in place these sites are going to deploy
at the same height that eugene stoker set up a long time ago so if you want to just swap
one site let's say that you have one of the fixed front posts like a lot of us have on eh arks
sometimes you just get that one that's the gas block and sight all in one and you want to have
a rear sight then you can purchase just this rear one singly you can get this all by itself
or you can buy just the front one all by itself if you have a rear sight that you like already
or you can get the package that you see right here this was purchased as two so for about 90
bucks you can get a pair of the two sites and they do work in concert really well together especially
since this one handles all of the elevation or all the windage duty and this one handles all of
the elevation we're going to take a look at how that works because the coolest thing about this
is that this is all tool-less once you get it in stall this is the only tool you'll
ever have to use on here you just screw this into place and then after that everything is
fingertips and i was able to test this out at the range and it worked just fine so for windage
changes all you have to do is just with left or right hand grab one of these and then twist
they are a little stout it takes some effort they don't want it to just kind
of fall into place they don't want it to move around when you're shoeing
but there's a very solid click when you move from one notch to the next and you can see the mark on
my finger from having to grip it so tightly up front the adjustment is actually a little bit
easier this has a big wheel here so you get quite a bit of torque it's easy to grab it
and turn it easily and it does pop from detent to detent no more need for that tool that you used
to have to carry around on your keychain this is once again once you get this in stall tool-less
in old-school eh are fashion you have the flip apertures so if you want to go from a ghost ring
to a tiny little peep aperture you can do that so here's your precision and then there is your speed
and your kind of gross movement sort of thing so if you're dealing with animals that are moving
then this is going to be the one for you you're going to get just a great easy picture through
there and then when you flip over to the smaller aperture you can take your more precise shocks
one thing you'll notice on the front sight that i really like is that the protective ears that go
around the front post are very thick that means that you're not going to accidentally confuse
those with the post and that's something that i've run into on some of the more classic eh arks
sometimes i'll be ready to take that shock you know kind of swing everything into position i
think that i'm dealing with the post and it turns out it's actually one of the ears like why is this
thing in a funky angle oh okay there it is because some of these have ears that go straight up and
down and yeah you can get a little bit confused this one you're not going to get lost and i like
the curvature that you see around here so it's going to kind of fit with the aperture and you
can help to get some of these circles aligned as well as the front post on their website blackhawk
doesn't have any data about what the endoskeleton is on here they say that it's some kind of alloy
metal and i'm kind of curious to know what that is if it's aluminum or if it's some kind of steel
alloy based on the weight that we're dealing with i imagine that it's some kind of aluminum alloy
and we have just steel in the appropriate parts and then we also do have this little rare earth
magnet right here that grabs onto the apertures so under recoil these should not be moving around
and they shouldn't be easy to knock off if you accidentally bump it you can see that if i
you know even tip it that far that magnet still grabs it it's very powerful
at this point the hybrid folding sights only exist for your same plane setup so if you have
one continuous rail running all the way from the rear to the front then it's going to work for you
if however you have one of the gas blocks that sits a little bit lower it's not really going
to work out maybe you can find some kind of spacer that makes it work for you but for now
this is what we have all right we've talked about how they work but what are these actually
like out in the field for me they were just very easy to use and very easy to see through
i'm a big proponent of iron sights i think that everybody should have a pair on their eh are
it's just great to have them folded under a scope even if you're going to use a scope exclusively
i think that it's a good idea to have these because i have had scopes go weird on me
you know one time it was because i dropped a rifle and actually kind of bent the scope a bit
i've had other things happen like you know i mentioned with the red dot sights sometimes
batteries go out and so you're going to need something so you don't have to like maybe cancel a
hunt or get into trouble if you're in a defensive situation i think it's a great idea to have these
in place yeah a set of iron sights is going to set you back a bit maybe you weren't really counting
on that part of your budget but i do highly recommend it just after filming this video
my son gave us all the opportunity to figure out exactly how tough the sights are he dropped this
entire rig onto concrete from a height of about a foot and a half right onto the rear sight and
you can see how it bent there it looks like this substructure is aluminum and i was able to bend it
back pretty easily using smooth jawed pliers but based on how easily it went back it's not going
to take another hit on that quadrant ever again hopefully he'll just drop it on a different part
of the site next time or how about not drop it at all seriously though with the metal bent back in
place it seems to be working just fine the detents click and everything i'm going to do a little bit
more research online to try to find the weight on these i couldn't find it earlier but during
editing i'll see if i can find it if not i'm going to take these sites off drop them on the scale and
i'll give you an exact notation right here of what these sites actually weigh all i know is that they
are ridiculously lightweight and when they first came in this attractive little box right here
it kind of felt like there wasn't anything in it the box seems to be most of the weight and then
okay sure enough there were some iron sights in there that actually felt pretty darn solid
so yeah be sure that you look for more testing in the future i have had these out you know not only
getting them sighted in but doing some accuracy testing with these and i just love them so far
and you're probably going to see them more in the future as we get into some more of these 5 7 by
28 tests and let me know in the comments below are you still interested in five seven by twenty eight
is this a cartridge that you think has a future we've had some promises of ammo and actually the
spear gold dot ammo finally did come out it is crazy expensive right now so no i am not going
to buy a box of it i'm going to wait until we have the economies of scale it comes out there in full
force and i can find some on maybe local shelves and not have to pay it's like people are paying
about 90 bucks a box in some cases for 50 rounds of this stuff and i know that it's premium defense
ammo and it always goes for more but still that is insane and i'm not going to pay that right now
but yeah if you guys are interested in seeing more tests with this stuff please let me know
maybe you bought a ruger 57 or you have one of the fns or maybe you did you know get with the banshee
chambered for this let me know what you guys think in the comments below
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