Mike Fellon

Vortex made the only fully enclosed holographic weapon sight on the market that isn’t an EOTECH, and the Gen II version finally added what the original lacked: dedicated night-vision capability and a reworked button layout. It sits in premium territory, competing head-to-head with EOTECH’s EXPS line, but with a fundamentally different design philosophy. Enclosed aluminum … Read more

First focal plane glass used to come with a price of admission that put it out of reach for most people building a fighting carbine or a do-it-all AR. You either paid a small fortune for holdovers that worked at every magnification, or you settled for a second focal plane scope whose reticle only told … Read more

The StrikeFire II has been in Vortex’s lineup for over a decade. The red dot market moved toward compact enclosed emitters, shake-awake sensors, and solar backup panels in that time; this 30mm tube dot hasn’t changed. It still ships with a cantilever mount, still runs a CR2 battery, still lacks motion activation. And it still … Read more

The Viper 6.5-20×50 reads like a dedicated varmint and target optic the moment you look at the numbers: a 6.5x floor that’s too much magnification for any brush work, a 20x ceiling for picking apart small targets at distance, a 50mm objective, and a side-focus dial that runs from 50 yards out. This is a … Read more