overall guys this is really just a very good quality magnifier
and in just a fraction of the size of what you see in most magnifiers on the market
how's it going guys welcome back to the patriot diy channel today we're going to be talking about
the vortex micro three times magnifier there's been a huge push in the market over the last
few years to make everything smaller and lighter without sacrifice and function and i think vortex
has really done it here with their micro three times magnifier let's start with the basics so
there's no doubt that a red dot is king when it comes to close quarters combat anything 100
yards and in but when you press out to further distances that's when you start to need a little
magnification and that's where your magnifier comes in so we're going to get in here we're
going to talk all about the features and the specs of this thing but before we do it if you haven't
done it yet guys make sure you hit that subscribe button down below hit that notification bell and
give us a thumbs up we really appreciate that and i'll tell you right off the bat there are some
things i love and some things i don't love about this magnifier one thing that concerns me a little
bit is the overall length of it now i understand the entire purpose of this is to make a magnifier
in a smaller package but something you do need to consider i feel like when i shoulder this pistol
my regular cheek weld is not close enough i have to bring my face in just a little bit closer
to get the right field of view through this magnifier now this does have a great eye
relief as far as magnifiers go the eye relief on this magnifier is 2.64 inches which is very good
most magnifiers are going to be somewhere in that same range or less than that
so that eye relief does help you out there and in reality it's really not that big a deal to just
shift my head in a little bit to get that proper eye relief and get the proper field of view
but that is something to consider now moving on another thing i really like about this magnifier
is there are no buttons to push or anything like that to flip it out of the way it's just held in
with tension so all you have to do is just push it to the side and she pops open so most of the
time this is probably how you would run your rifle in close quarters shooting and if you're going to
press out to a little bit further target and you feel like you need that extra magnification all
you have to do is just flip that over and now you're magnified it's very quick very easy to
do it takes almost no effort but it does lock in place good enough that it's not just going to flop
over when it's not supposed to now let's get in here we'll take a closer look at this thing we'll
go over all the specs and then i'll give you the view of the reticle through the object all right
guys first thing i'm going to do is take this off the pistol and give you guys a closer look at it
but while we're doing that let's go ahead and talk about the mount it does have an integrated mount
that comes with it this is a quick detach mount it's super easy to take on and off it just has a
little bit of a button here you push that button while pulling up on that lever and that releases
it as you can see it also has an adjustment here to tighten that up so that you so that once you
lock this lever down you get a nice tight lock up it does also come with actual co-witness and lower
one-third co-witness mounts all right guys like i said before this is a three times magnification
it has a 22 millimeter objective lens and an eye relief of 2.64 inches the field of view through
this is going to be 38 feet at 100 yards now as small as this thing is it does still have a little
bit of heft to it you can definitely tell that it is well made it comes in at 9.5 ounces not too bad
the overall length is just 2.9 inches so it's not going to take up too much real estate on your rail
if you take a hit look here on the top and bottom you see your windage and elevation now with a
magnifier these are not for adjusting the point of impact like they are on your red dot so assuming
that your red dot is already sighted in you just use these knobs here you just twist these caps off
and you use these adjustments here to center that red dot in your view inside the magnifier
you do have an adjustment knob here on the back to adjust the clarity has very nice clear glass
on here all the glass on here is multi-coated and anti-reflective and they're also going to
be fog proof now let's talk for a second about the construction of the magnifier itself it's really
rugged shock proof and waterproof and overall guys this is really just a very good quality magnifier
and in just a fraction of the size of what you see in most magnifiers on the market so let's get
this thing back on the pistol and we'll try to give you a view through the magnifier all right
guys this is the view you're going to get most of the time looking through your rifle and then when
you're ready to flip that magnifier over you flip that thing over and then you just need to adjust
so as you can see the clarity is very nice now one thing to keep in mind guys this does make your dot
bigger as well it's just gonna it's gonna magnify everything that you see through your red dot it'll
magnify it three times so that two moa dot is actually looking more like six mla right now all
right guys that is it for the vortex micro three times magnifier i hope this video helped you out
if you guys have any other questions or anything about it make sure you let us know in the comments
section and don't forget guys i'm gonna have a link to this in the description below if you
want to get one for yourself so if red dots and magnifiers are your thing i think vortex has hit a
home run here thanks for watching guys please like share and subscribe and we'll see you next time
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