UNITY Fast OMNI & 30mm Mount - Your Magnifiers Best Friend? 

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I'm with you, it's pure b.s. and just the latest thing these companies tout as an absolute necessity. Snag? That was never a concern with lasers and flashlights.

The unity with the G45 doesn’t obscure the eotech on a riser at all. Only when you mix up different companies as their ideas of cowitness are different. Also The magnifiers are way heavier and much larger than weapon mounted flashlights.

GBRS Unity magnifier 2.91 🤣

wow that is slick but I thought the unity stuff was selling for an absurd cost.

Also wanted to say. In my opinion, if u want to go tall, it's so much cheaper to just buy an adm 1/2" full rail riser to mount on the receiver and just use your factory mounts that come with your magnifier and red dot. I bought into the IG coolness, but on my backup night rifle, I went the cheaper route. To me, it wasn't worth spending all that money on the Unity Mounts. But at least I look cooler, lol.

You want to run the magnifier behind the prism scope?

@@VincitOmniaVeritas7 yeah at least if you have both the primary arms ones matched up. You just have to adjust the diopter until it's clear. Don't know about other prisms, but I think it was monstrum that came out with a prism specific 2x magnifier that you run in front.

@@luciusrene943 it can be a pain in the neck to focus two prism scopes (which the magnifiers are) in line. The 1X prism that you want might be easier to adjust. I have a 3x prism scope and two 3x magnifiers. I tried to make a 9X just for fun and after a lot of frustration, I managed to do it, but there’s a big problem: as soon as you flip down the magnifier, the front prism scope will be out of focus. I’m convinced that, if you really want a variable magnification prism, the ELCAN is the only real option. If you are having problems with eye relief, you should try the primary arms with the mount option that cants backwards. For me, the primary arms MicroPrisms have three advantages over the Vortex/Vector competitors: multiple mounting options, shake awake and finer 1/4 MOA adjustments (magnified options only). Good luck on your experiment.

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That’s a VERY good point. There are however magnifiers with mounts that allow swiping the flip side to the left (the new mini vortex does this, if I’m not mistaken.

@@VincitOmniaVeritas7 for right-handed shooters, this would make for a very snag-hazard gun when slung. It would also take up a large portion of your FOV of your other eye.

@@mcbadger2440 fair points. Haven’t used red dot + magnifier for a long time, to be honest, they sit on a S&W .22lr now. I went back to LPVO + offset Red Dot on my 5.56. Putting the offset mount and the flashlight on the right and leaving the left side free of snagging points is definitely a good idea.

Personally, I disagree with half of hop's take. You can not look through this magnifier and have nods on, that's true. However, it's a pain in the ass to look through a magnifier under nods anyways - the way I see it, you take the magnifier off at night, and when the sun comes up you put it back on so that you can actually use the magnification. Delta 34 did a video analysis on this exact topic, and that was his perspective!

@@Hideout2468 I believe that what Hop expressed was that with the side pivot mag mount you just move the magnifier out of the way. With the Unity mount you have to take off the mount/magnifier off.

What magnifiers have you used?

@@joelapplin88 G33, G45, Vortex Micro, Juliet 4, Juliet 3 Micro, Samson 3x, and Aimpoint 6x.

If only...

@@CDOES so there's a fake chinese copy of the ftc mount that is holosun pattern. I have one and the only con was the qd lever/clamp from the factory stripped right away. So i gt a real unity qd clamp and honestly it's solid. all in all I spend under $100 for the mount and qd clamp and it's rock solid.

@@Annoyingdog37really!!! Interesting!

@@Annoyingdog37 honestly, fuck it at that price. Especially on a $200 magnifier. I'm all for going American made. But if 1) no one makes it in the US. And 2) if you can get one that's the equivalent quality of the magnifier then screw it.

@@mikebrown4433 yeah so using my mechanic brain I figured that it would take an act of god to somehow fuck up a block of aluminum knowing how capable the chinese are at manufacturing. So i took a gamble and it’s honestly really well done, they responded to my complaint and sent me another qd in the updated style, but i have no reason to try jt out since i have a real unity/adm qd that cost just about the same as the replica. Locks up and down nice and solid. After trying an ftc mount, i think they’re overrated and i know it was covered already but yeah passive aiming is a pain because of the magnifier location unless you extend your length of pull. But that’s a non issue since you can just detach if for night time stuff

It would make for a very tight fit. I would remove it for the extra room, no questions asked.

unity is 2.26 not 1.93

It works. Unity even has product images showing the Vortex 3x micro and lists it as one of the compatible magnifiers.

Yes. They're a personal preference/use case type thing. They're cool, but definitely much higher and you'd have to consider if that's worth while. I thought about it and bought a fast mount for a red dot, but after shooting it a bit realized I preferred something shorter. I like 1.5" -1.93" height sights better. The flip to center magnifier is cool but it is harder to prone for sure. It really is a setup for passive aiming with nv hence the qd for the magnifier mount.

@@matthewriegner5180 thanks for great explanation.

There's a lot of mixed feelings with regards to >1.93" mounts. The single biggest reason someone would have to use them is if they need to use masks regularly, or if for whatever odd reason they are training for passive aiming through NVGs a lot. The argument has been occasionally made that they're superior for CQB or that the hold overs at range are better. These are valid arguments, with caveats: While yes, the more heads up position is objectively more comfortable if you ask me, I don't believe it offers you greater awareness and peripheral vision, as many people try to argue. On the contrary, in CQB, many would argue that the benefits of a lower mount, namely, lower holdovers reducing risk, and greater recoil control due to increased contact surface with the rifle, outweighs the benefits of a high mounted dot. At range, it's actually true that if you look at the holdovers for a higher mount, they're superior in terms of point of aim, point of impact. The overall dispersion of your holdovers is more advantageous for the 0-450 yard range. The problem that you run into, of course, is what you mentioned; If you're in the prone, you may find that your poor cheek weld makes this advantage moot in practice. All in all, I really think it comes down to preference and use case. For me, lower 1/3rd is fine, even if I don't think it's quite as comfortable. The mount variety is greater, it works well with magnifiers and other accessories out of the box, and if I need a higher mount, I can just put a riser under my optics. 2.33 is fine, but by no means do I think most people need to blow $500 on mounts to achieve it when it's less an upgrade and more a sidegrade.

@@KeterMalkuth i agree. I would also add that if you have multiple height optics across different rifle set ups makes training consistency getting behind the glass a little more difficult.