Holosun HS503R

This is the new Holosun 503R, and the R stands for rotary. As you can see, this one has a rotary adjustment for the brightness of the reticle. And in fact, it also allows you to change the reticle from a dot to a circle dot. and the 503R series is part of a new series of optics from Holosun that does use a rotary adjustment instead of the old push button adjustment for brightness. Now, I much prefer the rotation adjustment, because this lets me move very, very quickly and easily from one setting to another. And remember, Holosun does have two settings that are compatible with night vision. That means you can go to or from night vision much faster as well with this rotary dial. The other thing that you're gonna see here is that when I turn the dial past the setting of 12 to that circle dot symbol, now it's gonna change whether this was a circle or a dot. So if it was a dot, it's now a circle dot. If I go back now and go back, that's get to put it back to the dot, and I can again, go back and adjust my brightness. Now, personally, I prefer the dot most of the time, but there may be a reason that you wanna use the circle dot. Obviously it's gonna be a little bit bigger for indexing in close range. The other thing about the circle is that that 65 MOA Circle, we know it represents about 5 1/5 feet at a 100 yards. So I can use it to try to determine distance if I have something like a car that I sorta know the height of, a barrel, a trashcan, a mailbox, or maybe just the average height of a human person, a guy being about six foot tall or a little less, that's a good gauge to let you try to figure out the range if you're using that 65 MOA Circle. The dot is a 2 MOA Dot. Of course, it is adjustable as well. Taking the tops off the turrets, you've got your little built-in line there that goes down in there and it gives you your symbol and tells you exactly which direction to adjust, that's pretty common nowadays on red dot sights. So I really like the new configuration with the rotary dial. This really is an evolved version of the Holosun Red Dot Sight. Of course they've been bomb-proof for me. I'll be taking this one out on the 2019 Training Tour to see how it works. This is on a fixed mount. All the Holosuns come with two mounts. They come with a flat mount, more like for an AK or maybe for a shotgun application, and they come with a raised mount, which I can see through for the typical AR. And they also do have a quick-release that's available as well, and this will drop right onto that quick-release. There's other popular mounts that are available from other companies, quick-release or fixed that the Holosun will attach to as well. Of course, the batteries on these things just about last forever, ya change 'em once a year like you do with your smoke detectors in your house. You're gonna be fine, that's what I recommend for anything like any of the modern red dots that you're gonna get from Holosun. This is the 503R Circle and Dot Reticle, and I'm really excited about taking it out on the tour.