Mike Fellon

The EOTECH 512 has been around long enough that most shooters have formed an opinion about it without ever mounting one. It is the sight that put holographic technology in the hands of regular carbine shooters, the one that survived a very public thermal drift lawsuit and came out the other side still selling, and … Read more

The Crossfire II 1×22 sits at the bottom of Vortex’s red dot lineup, and that is exactly why people keep asking me about it. It is the optic a lot of shooters reach for when they finish a first AR build and have almost nothing left for glass. Vortex positions it as a no-nonsense tube … Read more

Nobody gets excited about a 2-7×32. It’s the optic you bolt to a lever gun or a rimfire and stop thinking about, which is exactly why the category gets overlooked and exactly why it’s worth talking about. The Vortex Crossfire II 2-7×32 sits at the bottom of Vortex’s lineup, priced at entry-level money, built for … Read more

Vortex built the Venom as an open reflex sight that goes wherever you bolt it, and most of the marketing leans on the top-loading battery tray and that wide 26.5mm window. It gets sold hard as a pistol optic, but spend any time around turkey and waterfowl rigs and you’ll notice where a lot of … Read more

The Vortex Viper has been bolted to slides, shotguns, and flat-tops for years now, and it earned its following the old-fashioned way: it kept working when cheaper open reflex sights quit. It is a mid-tier, slide-ready optic on the Docter/Noblex footprint, built around a 6 MOA dot that Vortex aims squarely at close, fast work … Read more

The Crossfire II 3-9×40 is the scope people land on when they’ve just bought their first deer rifle and the guy behind the counter has already talked them out of the no-name optic that came bundled in a combo deal. It’s an entry-tier, second-focal-plane hunting scope built around a classic 3-9x range, a 40mm objective, … Read more