hey mike how you been hey man it's great to be back i was gonna say it's been a while since
you're in the office yeah it's been a while since uh swamp show and we got a very green studio today
well i mean you told me go put green stuff on so i've got my esstac deodon and some victos gloves
here why am i wearing green because you are rambo you look i love the victos you like you
could punch through a glass window dude these are really comfortable it's kind of hard for
me to find gloves in my size i'm pretty happy with that and the esstac is it's a diadon and
it's got a quick detach thing that's yeah so yeah they actually came up with a way to do
easily removed mag pouches pop these guys here it comes off via velcro and if you want to take the
thing off you just grab these pull straight down and then you can take it off so it's surprisingly
comfortable really cool it looks good even though we are inside headquarters with the door locked
and you probably don't need three mags that's that's all right your security no i don't need
three mags i need 13. but you know so so we are he is wearing green and we're in a green studio
because we're talking about green dot optics today we have got green dots in the liberty and justice
now the sentinel automatic and manual we've got them in the liberator too and so this video is for
folks who are considering okay i'm used to red dots or i'm going to try out uh one of these
you know reflex type optics for the first time should i go red or should i go green if that
is your question this video is your answer so um yeah so we have we have them now they are out uh
they're they're on the street people are trying them out why did we do green what's the point of
doing a green dot well there's a few different benefits and reasons for first of all being as
you've said in the past we listened to our customers and people were screaming from the
rooftops when are you going to do green right so with that much enthusiasm we looked into why
do people want green so much right and obviously the customer wants it because why is the customer
interested in this yeah and there's a couple tangible benefits for it first of which being is
green because the way our eyes work naturally appears brighter to our eyes than any other color
on the spectrum of light that's why old school night vision was always on a green field right
your eye sees it best exactly so they didn't need to drive it nearly as hard it last a little longer
battery wise so there is science behind it it actually appears about 20 to 30 times brighter to
most human eyes than any of the other colors of the spectrum 20 to 30 times brighter that does
sound pretty damn significant it is uh so one of the things that we looked at was okay when
we're going to get into this what are the most common types of greens that we want to look at
most manufacturers including ourselves aim for certain spots on a scale that's referred to as
nanometers of light so reds are usually going to appear in around the 650 range
greens most people seem to like it in around the 540ish that's about right in the dead center
of the different colors of green and that allows us to have a brighter crisper apearing dot
while not having to just wreck our battery life so it actually gives you a tangible benefit
okay and i think i think one of those benefits i've been playing with these
i've got a production level green i got a production red and i've been playing with
them all morning and i think one of the things that the first thing that really stood out to
me immediately was that as i've talked about before i have astigmatism so i never see a clean
red dot i've got a whole video up on youtube about how astigmatism affects me and how it sucks and
everything and what it looks like for me and this is the green one's way better for me for my eyes
and and i've talked to some other employees we've been talking about the testing guys and everything
and that seems to be fairly common that it's not just me sample size of one guy but there are there
are other people out there that um find that it messes with their astigmatism less and they see
a cleaner dot right yeah absolutely so it has to do with the way that the light impacts
and is appearing to the rods and cones in our eyes there's a whole bunch of science
that goes along with it and the funny thing is even the optometrists that we talked to weren't
able to nail down why but it does seem that the vast majority of people out there if you have
an astigmatism look at a green dot chances are it will actually appear as a correct
dot to you and i think part of that is my my personal theory is on it is that unless i'm at
max blast which i was this morning because i was looking at white walls with the sun hitting
them right which is a whole different thing but unless i'm at max blast i can turn down the green
to a lower level and still see a good contrast against the target so if i have the red i might
want to be on setting seven or eight and if i have the green i might be on setting five or six
and i still uh you know and still shootable either way i i can shoot this at a lower
battery level than i can shoot this and be happy with with my shooting in my in my sight picture
and and that's why we found out lead you into this that's why we found out that in real life
the green seems to have a slightly better battery life even though on the box on the side of the box
it's all the same right right when it came to the actual testing of how much draw we're getting out
of it they're about the same so there's no reason for us to adjust anything as far as like how much
battery life we're getting but in real world usage taking things like shake and wake and things like
that out of the equation most people are going to run their green optic at a level or two lower than
the red so you're naturally going to get a little bit more battery life out of it because you don't
have to drive it at as high a level in order to get the contrast that you're looking for right but
when you do drive it at that high level and it is on maximum blast i i see the green better against
a white background um my home range that i sometimes show on the youtube channel we shoot at
white painted steel targets and and i this will be the green will be better against the white painted
steel i think i think on black for me it's kind of a tie but on white targets it would the green
is superior for me same for on tan so if you're shooting like ipsec uspsa silhouettes whatever i
found that the green appeared as a cleaner crisper dot the red's really good especially for low light
i find red to still be a little easier but the green in just abusively bright environments it's
easier for me to track and i still have a cleaner daunting we do think that there's another color
out there that might be even better for people with astigmatism but that's going to be a totally
different cake to bake so that'll come way down the line we're doing testing now but for now
if you do have an astigmatism i would strongly recommend take a look at a green dot of the red
i think you'll be pleasantly surprised that's my recommendation too and you know one of the
questions that i've seen people post online about is uh well what about you know i'm not shooting at
an indoor range with you know careful lighting and a white target you know i shoot in my backyard and
it's all trees and it's grass why would i want a green dot on a green grass and green trees is it
going to wash out yeah you know and is is that an issue with these or not so that's kind of the same
issue that you run into with people with like open reflex sights and they're they're never ending
worry of what if it rains and a drop gets in there and it scatters that it wasn't a thing it was a
logical concern but it wasn't a thing same with this when we take it out and we actually use it
in green environments because one it is still much brighter than the surrounding areas and two you're
the one steering the dot so because of things like proprioception and kinesthesia you are the one
steering that point of light you're actually going to have an easier time distinguishing
it from a similar colored background yeah i couldn't get it to wash out more than maybe
once and it was one of those settings of perfect light alignment if you gamed it you know you
but i can do that with red too i mean bring up a red dot in low light around like tail lights
or something okay well now what are you looking for you can find something wrong in any situation
but the whole idea of well i'm in a forest i have a green dot what's going to happen it wasn't a
thing yeah i played around with a prototype and i and i felt the same way that just because the
human eye is based so much on movement that i can see the movement of the dot versus the background
and i never really lost track of it exactly right that was what i also found out in in
my playing around with the prototypes i think if you are new to this game and you have not gotten
a chance to just look at one at a store you know or go to the range and have a buddy show you his
or something like that you know the advice that i would give is if you have tried fiber optic
front sights on pistols if you like a green fiber optic front sight this is like a green fiber optic
front sight that's in a window that's not it's not surrounded by metal and all of that so it's
it's like a green fiber optic front sight that's even brighter and if you like that you should
try this out if you prefer red to green hey you know we're still going to be making the red ones
if you like that green fiber optic front sign on your pistol and you don't like the you don't
like the green maybe it's not for you there is some personal preference here oh yeah and
and we will still be making red dots but uh if you like a green fiber optic front sight if you
have astigmatism uh if you know if you want a little bit of a battery life improvement yeah
these are you might want to try one out yeah it's definitely worth taking a look at
yeah guys that is it for this video great again that was great have a good one guys