"That's not a concern for me - I don't even have any friends, much less air support..." I had no idea Hoplopfheil was an American stranded in Afghanistan!
No it is not. It is just a guy with a camera, and alot of free time on his hands. That is all it is. One person's opinion, who MAY or MAY NOT be educated on the subject he or she is talking about. Dont make RUclips videos/channels a bigger deal then they really are dude.
I'm really not into tactical shit like this much at all, but Hop's review skills mean I usually watch whatever he's featuring. He has a deeper grasp on the intracacies of NV and IR than I'll probably understand or need, but I still have an appreciation for him and his skills at that level.
The NV content is much appreciated! It’s hard to find good reliable info on NV use and equipment. Your video format and input are excellent and have helped a lot in gear selection and setup
Every time I learn or come across another product I have no experience with or know anyone who has one, you come out with a video for it. Seriously underrated and you hit all the marks I seriously look at before investing in a product. Doin the lords work with these videos. Thanks my dude.
But will it work with the super-elite Syonix camera/budget thermal monocular on a 3D printed bridge mount nods setup? I selectively remember you recommending both of those for the ultimate budget tactical setup. Anyway, as usual, please do a colab with GunThots.
Glad you did this video. I’ve wanted to see this as sourcing the LS117IR I have on my home defense setup was hard enough. It’s performed well. Wasn’t able to afford the LS321G at the time but wanted to get something solid to use with my nods.
LE-117IR is solid…ran it at an IR course with some HP PEQ-15’s…sucker was comparable to the PEQ’s…just paired it with a KM2C and used it as an illuminator…held zero even after sitting in my truck for months…plus the laser isn’t off set so with zeroing, it can simply be co-witnessed with the optic
I've seen the LE321G/R in stock before. But it usually sells out pretty fast. The US night vision triad is also OEM'd by holosun, and looks to be a LS321 unit, with the settings of the LE321, and have more adjustment with the IR illuminator size.
I used the LE321R and it really is a good all in one device. It is bright enough for indoor weapon handling. No problem with nods. I had id on a SBR AR15. One of my buddies has the LE420G. Pretty much the same deal exept the flashlight is noticable brighter. Lasers not so much i think.
I threw this on my .300 black out with a M600 Vampire using a unity taps Sync. Its perfect for the dedicated sub gun indoors. I get a nice wash lighting up rooms and a low power laser that doesn't wash out my nods up close.
Lol dude I’ll be Yur friend. I’m in Portland. Just got my Monaco PBS 14 gentle with white phosphorus. And I’m definitely on the market obviously for an IR illuminator and laser. And so far I followed to my my knowledge, all of your videos regarding that particular topic.
I use the LS 117G in USPSA. On rare occasion, we are given targets that are hard to quickly hit by shouldering your PCC and using your optic without stepping out of the shooting area (or putting rounds into a wall). Instead, we have to "hang the PCC out there" away from your body and get hits with the laser. The downside is that you can forget about seeing the laser in bright sunlight at any distance beyond 12 yards.
Your definitely my go to for any review I'm looking for I'm really surprised your channel hasn't blown up yet! Your doing great work I appreciate it! Saved me alot of wasted time and money, would you do a review on the LN-ELIR3? Apparently you can remove a filter to make it a full power Illuminator and I'm interested to hear your thoughts on it
Temping. This would be a good option for my gf’s kit. I’ve built two clone rifles, mines already got a D-BAL and I’m not about to throw that kinda cheddar at her gat.
You gotta get a Holosun 530 elite c whatever, the cool titanium MRO competitor that is probably better than the actual MRO. You know the one that you have repeatedly reputation raped. It would be good to see an alternative to the MRO and Holosun seems to be kicking ass these days.
I have a LS117r and a otal-c. I like them differently. I like the filter I could buy for the otal-c as it reduces bloom if not using an illuminator with it. The LSrr7r lacks this possibility unless Steiner has filters that fit it. They look like they could be close, but I am not buying unless I am sure. I like the switch better on the otal-c too, but honestly, I will replace both switches because they both kinda suck. The otal-c has one of the best qd mounts I have ever used. The LS117r somehow feels of better quality if you disregard the tape switch and qd (which is not bad, but not as good as the otal-c). For the money, I would go with holosun. I got my otal-c for about $350, which is not much more than I paid for my LS117r, but I can not find them for that price anymore. I do not care about visible lasers and will look into a holosun unit that does IR laser and illuminator next. I do not want it to handle white light or visible IR. Wasted space, money, and weight at that point for me.
The misinformation on IR full power lasers *only* being used as an identifier for air assets needs to be put to rest. 1 - Full power is to point the laser into positions that have a high amount of ambient light. Most civilian lasers will get lost when pointed into an area with a high amount of ambient light (think if you live In a more urbanized area with a ton of street lights) 2. We also used full power lasers to locate other GROUND assets. If an element gets lost getting to our position, we lasso our lasers up into the sky for a good amount of time until our other ground element can locate us and make their way over to our position. 3 - back into the split element situation - it’s good to identify areas of interest to other memebere of your element so they can see a) what you’re looking at and b) trace the laser back to you so they know where you are…and what angle you’re looking at the area of interest from. When deployed, those blue screws on our Peq15s came out and that bitch was ALWAYS on high power. If we were entering a building where we knew we were gonna get into some shit with dudes, yea. Full power came off and we went low power because of blooming. A lot of the times of shit got hot in a building, you’re not really taking the time to aim properly anyway, your just point shooting into an oblivion until the dude drops. Did we use Ir lasers for air support? Yea I can recall a few times we did but that’s if air support couldn’t make out where we were, was unsure of the location we gave them, we were all idiots and didn’t bring out IR strobes, or cloud coverage just sucked and they couldn’t make out our Ir strobes. But we mainly lassoed in the sky so the laser broke through the clouds, air support can trace the beam down to the ground, and knew where our position was. At night it’s WAY more important for air support to know where YOU are and not the enemy bexause friendly fire by air support is probably the absolute worst day you can ever have.
I would love to see you review the new Kiji coupled with your laser of choice. Seems like maybe MAWL power at half the price or around the same price of a D2. 🤷🏻♂️
I built it myself so the only Anderson part on it is the lower. The upper is an SAA slickside, SAA bolt carrier group, KAK Industries barrel. I have no idea what the round count is on that gun, but it's a lot.
Food for thought, I'm looking at a LE 321g on optics planet right now. Was looking to get this in a month or so to do some testing because I reached the same conclusions you did about the LS
What blows is Steiner has either discontinued their lower cost LAMs or are unobtanium atm. And the D2 is OOS everywhere that has them decently priced and only found at full msrp
A fine review! Just a warning to everyone out there looking at holosun for optics. Stay away. The features seem great but recently the QC has been trash. I’ve bought many optics from them. But after shooting the reticals become canted and lenses on some have fallen off. And the customer service is trash… very sad
Great content! Question: What switch would you recommend for a Holosun LE117IR and Surefire Vampire combo? I know its not your favorite setup but I already have the Surefire ;-) The Modbutton Lite would have been my pick, but there seems to be a quality issue (as you pointed out).
Thanks for all the great videos lately. I would love it if you could cover pistol red dots for nv. Specifically interested in the holosun 507c with the neato vulcan reticle. Do I have to get an rmr?
How is the repeatability taking it off and reattaching it? Like you said, it may be nice for an non-dedicated night-rifle or secondary rifle... so pulling out off an reattaching as needed would be nice. IR-only lasers aren’t so easy to confirm maintained zero until you start actually shooting so confidence in maintaining zero would be nice.
I think this with an arisaka with Malkoff 700mw ir light would be a cheaper and more capable set up if we could have a dual lead switch to activate both at the same time. I think unity was trying with the hot button but haven’t seen one yet. I know the taps can do it, but then you have a huge pad for that one function with 2 buttons and the secondary button can’t control a white light.
@@MrGible The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck".
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" I dont even have any friends, much less air support "
so The Gang is basically family
I spit out my beer laughing so hard!!!
absolute gold. I knew someone is gonna mention it as soon as i heard it on video xD
Same here , no air support
Absolute gold. I spit coffee when he said it.
I do have an AC-130 killstreak ready for launch.
Titanium shortages... Friend shortages... Rough times for us all.
You know what they say, 'You can always get more Titanium'.
"That's not a concern for me - I don't even have any friends, much less air support..." I had no idea Hoplopfheil was an American stranded in Afghanistan!
too soon? or right on time...
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Based
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I ain't ferget
This channel is the definitive source for IR, and NVG product testing. Keep up the great work!
facts, I love his review/comparison videos of cheaper NVG/NOD's. I'm still hoping he does a review/comparison video of the AGM NVG-40 and ATN PS-15's
Sage Dynamics and Kinetic Consulting both have really good content for night vision
Needs a video on the dbal d2. Seriously the most slept on unit
No it is not. It is just a guy with a camera, and alot of free time on his hands. That is all it is. One person's opinion, who MAY or MAY NOT be educated on the subject he or she is talking about. Dont make RUclips videos/channels a bigger deal then they really are dude.
Agreed
Hop is the King of Cascadians. You don’t need friends when you’re the leader of an entire race of people.
Also the leader of the Northwest Front
not if Crimson has anything to say about it, or the Pacific Federation.
@@tubeguy4066 Based, if true
@@jermasbiggestfan7796 that shit has been dead lol
@Travis Allen Hop is the Lord of the Dildos 👑😌
"I don't have any friends much less air support." I feel you Hops.
**comment about how this is really good in tarkov or something**
I'll be your friend, Hop. We can cross IR lasers in the sky together.
Never cross the streams!
@@onpsxmember that’s what I was going to say!
The real air support is the friends we realized we didn't have along the way.
Well damn... I was just talking about a holosun to start with last night. Hop must listen to my alpha waves. Thanks brother. Just the info I needed.
These reviews are good but the real deciding factor is when EFT adds it to the game and i get to see the Ergo penalty
I wish you reviewed everything I wanted to buy because your reviews and the honest way you do them are incredible
I'm really not into tactical shit like this much at all, but Hop's review skills mean I usually watch whatever he's featuring. He has a deeper grasp on the intracacies of NV and IR than I'll probably understand or need, but I still have an appreciation for him and his skills at that level.
good info
:flag_us:
" I dont even have any friends, much less air support "
I felt that
I’ve always been suspicious of the word “elite” - even since childhood.
ever since halo
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@@notforsaletoday1895 AUUGGHHHHHH!
The NV content is much appreciated! It’s hard to find good reliable info on NV use and equipment. Your video format and input are excellent and have helped a lot in gear selection and setup
Just getting into NV/IR game, and your channel has been the an awesome resource.
Every time I learn or come across another product I have no experience with or know anyone who has one, you come out with a video for it. Seriously underrated and you hit all the marks I seriously look at before investing in a product. Doin the lords work with these videos. Thanks my dude.
Highly recommend putting a zip tie over the QD though
I like electrical tape. Just looks cool
But will it work with the super-elite Syonix camera/budget thermal monocular on a 3D printed bridge mount nods setup? I selectively remember you recommending both of those for the ultimate budget tactical setup.
Anyway, as usual, please do a colab with GunThots.
Lol. I think this is sarcasm right? Sionyx head mounted... lol
@@ChevTecGroup he made several videos explaining why he did not recommend those things. So yes, this is sarcasm.
@@CutlassOutdoors Gunthots are you serious 😐 those cucks are Lame AF !!!
@@makevelicustoms 🤭
i want to try one of those dbals.keep hearing mixed reviews and since covid i cant afford to buy something that sucks. great video man
Glad you did this video. I’ve wanted to see this as sourcing the LS117IR I have on my home defense setup was hard enough. It’s performed well. Wasn’t able to afford the LS321G at the time but wanted to get something solid to use with my nods.
I've got a LE321R, its great. took me 10 month to have it imported in Australia.
who was the importer I'm looking at the Holosun LE 117 G from optics planet. I live In Australia as well
LE-117IR is solid…ran it at an IR course with some HP PEQ-15’s…sucker was comparable to the PEQ’s…just paired it with a KM2C and used it as an illuminator…held zero even after sitting in my truck for months…plus the laser isn’t off set so with zeroing, it can simply be co-witnessed with the optic
Thanks for the reply Hop. Keep up the great content
I have a LE321G from about 3 years ago, they def made them but even then it was a pain in the ass to get.
“Master Chief, mind telling me what you’re doing in that IR laser designator?”
Chuggy juggy
I just came here to hear Hop curse. 😆
BTW, I enjoy your content man! You do a great job.
I've seen the LE321G/R in stock before. But it usually sells out pretty fast. The US night vision triad is also OEM'd by holosun, and looks to be a LS321 unit, with the settings of the LE321, and have more adjustment with the IR illuminator size.
“I don’t have friends, let alone air support” hahahahaha
I used the LE321R and it really is a good all in one device. It is bright enough for indoor weapon handling. No problem with nods. I had id on a SBR AR15.
One of my buddies has the LE420G. Pretty much the same deal exept the flashlight is noticable brighter. Lasers not so much i think.
4:40 You've got at least one friend in VA. Keep up the good work.
“I don’t even have any friends, much less air support.” Figured I’d quote that since everyone else did, too
I threw this on my .300 black out with a M600 Vampire using a unity taps Sync. Its perfect for the dedicated sub gun indoors. I get a nice wash lighting up rooms and a low power laser that doesn't wash out my nods up close.
"I don't even have any friends much less air support."
We Love you hop
Lol dude I’ll be Yur friend. I’m in Portland. Just got my Monaco PBS 14 gentle with white phosphorus. And I’m definitely on the market obviously for an IR illuminator and laser. And so far I followed to my my knowledge, all of your videos regarding that particular topic.
Good review, still missing your battletech content, but keep up the good work
Finally, a laser for Elite Miko
I use the LS 117G in USPSA. On rare occasion, we are given targets that are hard to quickly hit by shouldering your PCC and using your optic without stepping out of the shooting area (or putting rounds into a wall). Instead, we have to "hang the PCC out there" away from your body and get hits with the laser. The downside is that you can forget about seeing the laser in bright sunlight at any distance beyond 12 yards.
I have had the LE221R for over a year, it’s the same housing as the LE117 so I think that makes it worth it right there.
How has the LE221 held up?
@@CH-ce5jv so far so good
A great way to start off a saturday morning
"I don't even have friends, much less air support" Killed me
Hop we have an airplane and would be glad to offer air support, but we live in Georgia so you’ll need to call ahead. 😉🇺🇸🛸
Awesome review as USUAL!
Your definitely my go to for any review I'm looking for I'm really surprised your channel hasn't blown up yet! Your doing great work I appreciate it! Saved me alot of wasted time and money, would you do a review on the LN-ELIR3? Apparently you can remove a filter to make it a full power Illuminator and I'm interested to hear your thoughts on it
I've been watching these videos for awhile now but I'm subscribing just for the "I don't even have any friends, much less air support"...... 🤣
this thing fucks and is worth it. Works on my x95 and ar15 like a charm
Outstanding! - Tx.
I got the le420 on my mk18. Good unit
nice review, thanks.
great video Hop. Im too poor for IR toys, but i watch because of you nonetheless 😘
interesting to see a video on the le321
Yessss, more money for Chairman Mao. +50 social credit score
There’s 1:7 exchange rate to fico score
Good stuff, this information will be useful as I continue to boycott Chinese weapon peripherals.
There is a titanium shortage, workers at a major producer are striking
Looks like the LE321 is finally available on the optics planet.
I laughed when dude said, I don’t have any friends lmao. We got you.
You should do a can wrap review. I already did my own and spent cash on crappy ones before I found one that works. It would be helpful for others.
I really like my perst lasers. I really dislike the shipping time.
"I don't even have any friends let alone air support" .... 🤣 classic. Don't worry me too, but heaps of cool toys 😂🤣😂
Temping. This would be a good option for my gf’s kit.
I’ve built two clone rifles, mines already got a D-BAL and I’m not about to throw that kinda cheddar at her gat.
117, that doesn't look like master chief would use it.
You gotta get a Holosun 530 elite c whatever, the cool titanium MRO competitor that is probably better than the actual MRO. You know the one that you have repeatedly reputation raped. It would be good to see an alternative to the MRO and Holosun seems to be kicking ass these days.
I'm testing the HS515GM, so far so good.
Elite stuff is good. Does it come with a flannel shirt and an electric grooming tool for your tactical beard?
Just got the LS in for a light weight SBR build- doesn’t look like I missed out much not going with the LE
I have a LS117r and a otal-c. I like them differently. I like the filter I could buy for the otal-c as it reduces bloom if not using an illuminator with it. The LSrr7r lacks this possibility unless Steiner has filters that fit it. They look like they could be close, but I am not buying unless I am sure. I like the switch better on the otal-c too, but honestly, I will replace both switches because they both kinda suck. The otal-c has one of the best qd mounts I have ever used. The LS117r somehow feels of better quality if you disregard the tape switch and qd (which is not bad, but not as good as the otal-c). For the money, I would go with holosun. I got my otal-c for about $350, which is not much more than I paid for my LS117r, but I can not find them for that price anymore. I do not care about visible lasers and will look into a holosun unit that does IR laser and illuminator next. I do not want it to handle white light or visible IR. Wasted space, money, and weight at that point for me.
I kept saying LS117r but meant LS117IR
Thought I saw a Ruger in there lol A Ruger AR556 MPR was my first AR and got it for like $589. Has been a good rifle for a few years now
Tactical Kevin bacon
Hear they're just giving these away in Kabul...But bring Friends & Air Support.
The misinformation on IR full power lasers *only* being used as an identifier for air assets needs to be put to rest. 1 - Full power is to point the laser into positions that have a high amount of ambient light. Most civilian lasers will get lost when pointed into an area with a high amount of ambient light (think if you live In a more urbanized area with a ton of street lights) 2. We also used full power lasers to locate other GROUND assets. If an element gets lost getting to our position, we lasso our lasers up into the sky for a good amount of time until our other ground element can locate us and make their way over to our position. 3 - back into the split element situation - it’s good to identify areas of interest to other memebere of your element so they can see a) what you’re looking at and b) trace the laser back to you so they know where you are…and what angle you’re looking at the area of interest from. When deployed, those blue screws on our Peq15s came out and that bitch was ALWAYS on high power. If we were entering a building where we knew we were gonna get into some shit with dudes, yea. Full power came off and we went low power because of blooming. A lot of the times of shit got hot in a building, you’re not really taking the time to aim properly anyway, your just point shooting into an oblivion until the dude drops. Did we use Ir lasers for air support? Yea I can recall a few times we did but that’s if air support couldn’t make out where we were, was unsure of the location we gave them, we were all idiots and didn’t bring out IR strobes, or cloud coverage just sucked and they couldn’t make out our Ir strobes. But we mainly lassoed in the sky so the laser broke through the clouds, air support can trace the beam down to the ground, and knew where our position was. At night it’s WAY more important for air support to know where YOU are and not the enemy bexause friendly fire by air support is probably the absolute worst day you can ever have.
I hope you will also test the
Perst 4 gen 3.
The lasers are way more powerful.
Already did.
I would love to see you review the new Kiji coupled with your laser of choice. Seems like maybe MAWL power at half the price or around the same price of a D2. 🤷🏻♂️
Hey Hop, how many rounds do you have on that Anderson AR? Does it have the original bcg?
I built it myself so the only Anderson part on it is the lower. The upper is an SAA slickside, SAA bolt carrier group, KAK Industries barrel. I have no idea what the round count is on that gun, but it's a lot.
I believe Miami PD is field testing the LE321
Food for thought, I'm looking at a LE 321g on optics planet right now.
Was looking to get this in a month or so to do some testing because I reached the same conclusions you did about the LS
“I don’t even have any friends much less air support,”
Bro… 😆 I’m going to have to remember that.
Good video. How do these handle under shit weather?
What blows is Steiner has either discontinued their lower cost LAMs or are unobtanium atm. And the D2 is OOS everywhere that has them decently priced and only found at full msrp
A fine review! Just a warning to everyone out there looking at holosun for optics. Stay away. The features seem great but recently the QC has been trash. I’ve bought many optics from them. But after shooting the reticals become canted and lenses on some have fallen off. And the customer service is trash… very sad
That sounds like such utter BS...
>No friends or air support (paraphrasing)
You’re ok Hop.
Hop notification gayng
Unless they have a new supply they have been out of all these
Great content!
Question: What switch would you recommend for a Holosun LE117IR and Surefire Vampire combo? I know its not your favorite setup but I already have the Surefire ;-)
The Modbutton Lite would have been my pick, but there seems to be a quality issue (as you pointed out).
Unity TAPS is what I use, I like it a lot. I have a video on it as well.
Thanks for all the great videos lately. I would love it if you could cover pistol red dots for nv. Specifically interested in the holosun 507c with the neato vulcan reticle. Do I have to get an rmr?
💪🏻
Maybe next time you can do a review on just the LE117IR ????
Hi Hop, great video! Im about to purchase a LE117 Red laser. Did you notice any issues with the locking mechanism or latch? Thanks Hamish in Poland
The latches on the Holosun lasers are definitely a weak point, unfortunately. If you have the tension set properly they should be okay.
Ive only seen LE321 on Chinese SWAT team and Chinese Navy SOP's rifles.
No friends? C'mon Hop; not even James?
How is the repeatability taking it off and reattaching it?
Like you said, it may be nice for an non-dedicated night-rifle or secondary rifle... so pulling out off an reattaching as needed would be nice. IR-only lasers aren’t so easy to confirm maintained zero until you start actually shooting so confidence in maintaining zero would be nice.
I really wish they added to the 2A, we the people have the right to have the same arms and the military and no state law can undermine that.
I think this with an arisaka with Malkoff 700mw ir light would be a cheaper and more capable set up if we could have a dual lead switch to activate both at the same time. I think unity was trying with the hot button but haven’t seen one yet. I know the taps can do it, but then you have a huge pad for that one function with 2 buttons and the secondary button can’t control a white light.
You can always spend 40 bucks on a soldering iron and do it yourself
Hey hop, any plans to check out the streamlight VIR II?
I have one right now I'm testing.
please keep us updated if you get your hands on a le321 ive been looking for one for a while now
That's all well and good. But how does it do in '80s style hip fire? 😛
I will they would make a unit with a led ir Illumination to comparable to the D2
Can they be mounted on a shark?
Mac V Sneed? What?
What
@@Hoplopfheil what does sneed mean on your subscribestar?
@@MrGible Sneed feed and seed
@@tubeguy4066 Formerly known as Chuck
@@MrGible The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck".
Can we get a review of the Helikon TMR you're wearing in the last shot?
Have you tried messaging dealers? LE stuff is sort of available on special order in Canada. Small amounts of LE321 and 420 exist. Apparently.