EO Tech Vs Red Dot Destruction Test!
Now, red dots and holographic sights have a lot of fundamental differences in performance, but that's not why you're here, is it? Let's break some stuff. But first, here's a ten minute update about my life, set to some really generic butt rock. ("Mine craft" by Hot schedules) (breathing loudly)Participation trophies. Just kidding. Red dots and ho lo sights work on two completely different principles. A red dot uses an LED to project a reticle, that's bounced back to your eyes by coated glass. While a holographic sight uses a laser and mirrors, to project a hologram back to your eyes, that appears to be in front of the optic itself. In theory, this means that damaging the front lens on a red dot, should put i tout of commission permanently. While damaging the front lens on holographic sight, should leave the hologram intact. So let's put this to the test. Alright, so full closure. (glass breaking) We accidentally destroyed(glass breaking) both lenses on the first red dot we tested and since a holographic sight wouldn't survive that damage either, we decided to offer up a second red dot to the vengeful God of science. Red dot number two,(glass breaking) actually still sort of worked,(glass breaking) with only a small puncture in the front lens. But the reticle itself was spider-webbing off of the broken lens, and we have no idea if the optic would hold zero at that point.While, both red dots did survive a respectable amount of violence, before eventually succumbing, the red dot platform itself, cannot work without that front lens intact.
Now, let's move on to the EO Tech. The EO Tech survived(glass breaking) both the initial puncture and the total destruction of its front lens, due to the very spooky nature (glass breaking) of the hologram technology involved. While this is obviously not going to be a concern for everyone, it is comforting to know that your optic is capable of surviving a fair amount of fragmentation damage, or taking a hammer and file to its front lens.
Now, let's move on to the EO Tech. The EO Tech survived(glass breaking) both the initial puncture and the total destruction of its front lens, due to the very spooky nature (glass breaking) of the hologram technology involved. While this is obviously not going to be a concern for everyone, it is comforting to know that your optic is capable of surviving a fair amount of fragmentation damage, or taking a hammer and file to its front lens.
