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- What's up everybody?
Adam here again.
I wanna answer the question that everyone
has been asking me, yes
this is the UH-1 Huey.
I have been shooting it for awhile.
I get asked all the time
Huey versus Spitfire.
I was a big or am a big
advocate of the Spitfire
for three gun use.
Folks are wondering how it stacks up
against the Razor UH-1 Huey.
For the specifics on the Huey,
there's lots of videos
out there about that.
You can go watch some shot
show videos from 2017.
I believe there's even
a couple of me on there
giving the dance about it.
The quick run down
though, it looks very much
like an Eotech, it is a
hologram like an Eotech,
but that's about all
that they have in common.
Vortex really started with a
clean sheet of paper on these
and came up with something pretty unique.
To kind of calibrate my objectivity on it,
when they first came out with it,
I was not super stoked on it.
I wasn't a big fan of the Eotech.
But once I actually
started looking at one,
got some time behind it,
I am a hardcore fan.
What I like best about it, what
I like best about any optic,
if you wanna gauge what I'm
gonna say about an optic
the question I ask myself is
do I feel like I'm
looking through an optic?
What I like about the Huey is I have
an aiming reticle through a medium
that I don't feel like I'm
looking through a tube.
I don't feel like I'm
looking through an interface.
There's just a reticle out in space
that drives where the bullets impact
and that is what they have
accomplished with the Huey.
We have I believe a one MOA dot
and then there's also a
CQB triangle at the bottom
which has been very helpful lately here
in the Minnesota Three Gun
Group they're into shooting
really close range clays
hanging on a string with rifles.
That CQB triangle has been super handy for
pin point accuracy on that,
getting the offset correct
and then hitting the clay in the portion
where it's gonna shatter for sure
instead of just punching
a single hole through.
I really like the reticle.
To compare to the Spitfire,
there's still a dot within a ring.
You kind of learn how to use the ring for
gross motor skill shooting up close.
You're not really trying
to pin point something.
You can kind of frame
the shot with the rings.
Where the Huey starts to
depart from the Spitfire
or where the Spitfire starts to shine
is if you have to shoot long range.
At the long range presentations,
the Spitfire reticle
being an etched reticle
instead of a projected hologram
is more crisp when
you're trying to look at
something that's very
small and very far away.
If you're wondering what it looks like
when you're shooting long
range with a limited optic
it looks like a four year
old's finger painting.
When you're trying to overlay a reticle
onto a blur that's a long ways away,
it's a lot easier to do that
with a black Spitfire reticle
than it is with a Huey.
A lot of folks will say the
Spitfire's not daylight bright.
That's more or less true.
But truth be told, most of the time
I don't even have the
battery in my Spitfire.
I hardly ever use the
illumination during the day.
I always get a better
presentation with a black reticle.
So I really don't worry about that.
For times when you really do want a fiery,
bold, reticle that's where
the Huey starts to come in.
'Cause more often than not
in three gun applications,
we're starting to worry
about how to tone down
the reticle more than we
are trying to turn it up.
I have used more of the very
dim settings on the Huey
than I have really used
the very bright ones.
One of the unique features about the Huey
that they don't really talk about
but it is integrated into it,
the dot is slightly more
intense than the ring.
So when you do get into those situations
where you're starting
to get kind of blazed
out of the optic 'cause it's so bright.
And you're turning down
the brightness settings
trying to get a more
crisp, unobtrusive reticle,
the ring starts to disappear
before the dot does.
To a very subtle degree but it is there.
It's there just enough that it's useful.
I do like that about the Huey
when we're trying to
make the precision shots
on a 50 yard autopopper
or something like that.
Huge field of view.
It's very intuitive, it's very trim.
It doesn't feel bulky on top of the rifle
and it doesn't look
bulky around the rifle.
I can see all the way around the Huey
as well as seeing through it.
It's not in my way like a lot
of other holographic optics
or the tube style red dots.
I always feel like I'm
looking through something
and it's in my way of
seeing around the rifle.
I don't get that with the Huey.
More often, for a lot
of our club style stuff,
been using the Huey and
definitely gonna stick with it.
Keep trying it out.
I've got some more experimental stuff
I wanna do with it for my own information.
In matches where you're gonna have to do
the long range stuff, Spitfire still wins.
We've still go the BDC Turd up there
so I can have a much more educated guess
if I have to shoot at
400 yards, 500 yards.
I can dial it in and be
closer into the neighborhood.
Have more confidence
that I'm gonna get a hit
instead of having to do some
sort of Kentucky windage
holding over it.
There's some quick thoughts
on Huey versus Spitfire.
Everybody wanted to know.
That's what I think.
If you have any questions,
shoot a comment down below
and I'll be sure to get to them.
If you have anything
you'd like us to cover
more in depth on them, shoot
us those questions as well.
We'll get in front of the camera
and we'll address those as well.
I'm Adam Maxwell, Vortex
Optics and Hawkeye Ordnance.
Thanks for tuning in.
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