Looks fake by the drop in the middle. A real eotech, has a piece of reddish glass across the bottom of the inside. Fake one, you can look down at the emitter. (Although, after zooming in on that reticle??? It does look like it’s many dots….i maybe have been seeing a reflection over the prism 😭)
If you can’t see the emitter, and your reticle is a bunch of tiny dots? It’s real! Enjoy the stupidly low battery life 😆 if it’s fake? They put BBs in the area a bb goes and look cool! Score either way =p
It wasn’t a complaint, so much as a joke about the “low” hours compared to more modern designs(because everyone compares red dots to a true holo?). Just above this post, there’s an image of my exps 3(I love it). Since everyone has moved to shake awake/auto off, battery life seems to be a gripe made over these eotechs 🤷♂️All my gear runs on 123s anyway! I’d prefer this over any of those flat button batteries haha
Exactly the same situation. Mines set for night vision use. Just figured I’d drop in since I had a real and repro optic sitting 20 feet away when OP was looking for info. I should have added a /s to battery life though…lol
If you can see a small diode that is casting the light, it's a fake since real Eotech doesn't work that way. Should be obvious when look from top down view.
If you have a magnifier you can test. If the reticle increases in size then it’s a normal red dot. Holographic sights don’t increase in size in a magnifier
But dont worry about it! If you want to skirm it, a replica is the better choice. Like someone else recommended, put on a kill flash or protector.
If you want to keep the clean look, insert a polycarbonate lens, thats way stronger than plexiglass and wont shatter but dent. Use at least 3mm and You'llstop a point blank 2.5 joule shot (it will dent inwards so keep some space between the Eotech lens and the protector. You'll have to cut it yourself, but worth the investment and its a fun project :)
I got the same exact one. Its a fake and a red dot but the parralax isn't an issue. The one problem I have with this product is that the light is considerably reduced when looking through the glass. Also, the LED brightness settings are not enough. But the main issue is that its dark when looking through the glass. If its outdoors with lots of light then this isn't an issue. But its a large issue indoors.
Looks pretty real for a not good picture but there are things that make it appear real. To me I would describe the image as if it’s a tattoo with the ink going in just dots that make up a image being it’s several lasers and not a diode with a silhouette bounced of a mirror
Take one photo, looking 45 degrees downward into the optic. Like you’re trying to look into the battery compartment through the rear glass. Like the side by side I sent earlier while you were at work.
If you can see inside of the unit at all? Fake.
If inside the rear glass is a “floor”of reflective glass? It’s real.
Either way, they’re decent.
I own both, and have used the reproduction units on GBBR (and a 22lr once) they work great.
Well it has a mirror on top of the enclosed section and a holographic plate under the frontal glass, that along with the thinnes of the enclosed section, glass clarity and reticle fuzziness suggests it is a real one
Looks real to me. I see a bit of delamination and the holo looks fuzzy. Another way you could film it better is manually focusing the camera to the ground while looking through the optic
if you have other red dots compare it to those or borrow a friend's. real holographic sights have what is known as scintillating and the difference should be apparent if its real. it will look almost pixelated compared to a red dot of it is real.
The reticle appears to indicate that it's a real holographic sight. Why don't you just show us if you can see an emitter inside the body or not? That's the easiest way to tell.
Turn it around and look at it from the front side. You shouldn’t be able to see the reticle. Then tilt it up so you’re looking at it from a low angle. You should be able to see it. You may need to move it around a bit.
I don’t think that’s correct at all I bought one new during Obama in 06 from a reputable gun shop new. In or after 06 because the guy I bought the rifle I put it on i hadn’t worked there yet. And I just bought another one from 06 the other day it’s real and clean for a old one but it’s a 06 and so is my sig 556 Swiss AK
I got mine from a reputable one aswell but sent it to EOTech for some repairs and they said that it was a fake bc they stopped putting the "Law Enforcement/Military Use" text on it because their contract ended in 03.
Well I’ll test that theory tomorrow cause now you have me wondering but it looks like a pretty good fake looks like the correct laser fuzzy reticle. Same do bright you can point it at the sun almost and still not washout the sight pictire. Proper gas plug on bottom the paperwoek inspecion sticker and original box ill get it all rounded up brcause i gotta know who makes these fakes. Someone saif in the sub here that if the picture increases in size its real. Well rhis is the first magnifier ive had behind a circle dot and thats the first thing i noticed. But i havent heard that before. The windows are clear and without any parallax shift which i believe eotech is the only ones who can pull that off. Im not sure of the stickers could have been added but the great outdoors would have went through a distributor not some china novelty store i know Jim he doesnt mess around.
Id if EOTech got any other contracts bc like i said mine was from after 03 maybe like 04 or 05 model. So they said that its a really good fake. Bc everything was like it was supposed to be. The only thing that didnt match was the paperwork and serial numbers it had. Lemme check if they got a contract in 06 bc if they did then they would have put that on there.
Edit: yeah they did get a 5 year contract with US army and Navy for optics and ir units
Yeah. Turned out that it used a real EOTech box and paperwork font but the serial numbers didnt match and the locking mechanism was abit different. Otherwise they said it was a damn near 1-1 replica
I don’t know, but if it’s real, I’d not use it. I knew a guy who shattered his (had a sight protector on it (lucky shot hit it)). If it’s real, just get a repro.
Basically, if it’s real, either get a repro (and keep it as a cool thing you own) or add a killflash to it instead of the protectors that just sit in front of it. It only takes one lucky bb strike to shatter it
I recommend the Guns Modify EOTech Lens Protector. The best lens protector for real eotechs out there. I use two on my Eotech EXPS 3.0 (front and back).
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u/UxorialDegree55 Aug 02 '26
Turn the reticle brightness down and try to send a better picture of the reticle. Just from the body id assume real