Holosun AEMS-Pro-X2: Range Testing

All right, we've got our Ames Pro X2. This is the red dot version, red dot, red circle, or red circle dot version, uh, here on our Mongoose. Now, this is something we've been playing with for a while, the Mongoose, I love it. It's a great small PCC type. This is obviously a braced pistol version, um, from Nemo.

Uh, but let's talk about the Ames Pro. Now, this is the first time I've had this mounted on here. We have another. Video here at Personal Defense Network where we went over the features and the specs. Check that out if you're interested in the Ames Pro X2 details.

We're just gonna talk about getting it here on the gun. In this case, we're gonna treat this like a long gun because I'm gonna go ahead and extend the brace, and now I've got 4 points of contact. I'm standing probably about 89 yards away. Now. Here's the thing.

If I want to know exactly where this bullet is going to impact at 76 yards, I'm gonna need a. Solid zero and understand the drop and understand what bullets are going in and all that, but the bullets are going to vary in a 9 millimeter pretty significantly, right? Maybe I'm gonna take this off. I'm gonna get the threaded barrel on, put a suppressor on, use 147 subsonics. It's going to be different from a 115 and the 124 plus P that I might put in this for home defense or as a personal defense weapon, something I'm gonna carry in a truck or in a backpack, obviously that's going to be different too.

With this kind of set up for me, I want to make sure I can rapidly hit the chest of a threat out to 100 yards. I think that's reasonable for something like this. Certainly inside of the house, I want to be able to take headshots probably out to 25, 30 yards very quickly and easily, and obviously the Ames pro is going to help me do that. But with the Ames pro, I'm going to need to make sure that I'm zeroed. Now remember that technically the.

It comes zeroed out in terms of wind windage and elevation from the factory. This is a half MOA click change and it's got 50 MOA adjustability left and right and up and down. So there's a lot of room to put this in a lot of different configurations and get it set up properly with your firearm based on obviously what the bullet's doing and your height over the bore. This is the mount that comes with the AIMS Pro. It's a low profile mount.

I like it. When I come up and get my cheek welded on this brace, I know that I'm right there. My dots there, and I do have this set up as the dot. I think that's the best way to go for zeroing because it takes away any issue of, you know, which part of the circle or any of that, where is the target in the circle. I'm simply using the two MOA dot.

I'm gonna go ahead and chamber a round. Get my ear protections in, get my eye protection on. And again, if I wanted to turn this into a sniper tool, I'd be sitting on a bench, I'd be on bags, all that. But this is the way that this gun would be used. So this is the way I'm going to go ahead and check the zero.

We're going to see where we are. I'm going to get right on the center. And as we can see, I'm in the bottom of the target. Now in this case, I'm gonna go ahead and get my adjustment tool that comes with. The AIS pro, I know that I've got, maybe I should have my reading glasses on.

I know that I've got a half MOA of adjustment. I'm back here. That's gonna be like somewhere around 1/8 or 1/6 of an inch at this distance. So I'm gonna get a handful of up because I've got to come up about 5 inches. So I'm gonna do.

One half of a rotation. So I'm doing a half rotation. I'm gonna do the rest of that full rotation. And now I'm gonna see where I am. On a full rotation with the adjustment tool coming up.

Moved it about halfway. So now, maybe a little less than halfway, I'm gonna go. Full rotation and another half. Let's see where that gets us. Pretty good.

Let's see if that left and right is me. That one's centered up but a little high. I'm just going to back it off a little bit. I actually want to be a little bit low at this distance because this is sort of the inside range of a PDW. This is across the bedroom, down the hallway, the stairwell, something like that.

So if I come back. About 1/3 of a rotation. Right in the dead center, can't get much better than that. I guess I'm supposed to quit, right? But I had to push it.

There I go. All right, so I'm where I need to be. And again, because I want to be a little bit low at this closer distance, I'm gonna go ahead and just crank that back down. Another Half of a rotation. And that's how we set up as far as making sure that we're not zeroed out.

Obviously, I've changed that, that elevation. I'm not worried about the windage. I might be off a little bit to the left, but that's probably me, honestly, more than the optic. The optic should be zeroed out and I like where I am as far as elevation. Now, the next thing we're going to do on setup, and for this, I'm gonna go ahead and clear the gun.

Well, I don't have to clear the gun. I'm empty, uh, but I'll clear the magazine. The Next thing I'm gonna worry about on setup is do I want the dot? Do I want the circle, or do I want the circle dot? And the way I'm going to adjust that is with the plus and minus on the brightness.

Now this has 8 levels of daylight brightness and 4 for night vision, so it is night vision compatible. Maybe if I were using night vision, I'd mount this forward. If I had something that I'm using to on the gun, put that forward. If I were going to be wearing nods, then I'd probably want to lower this brace. I might have to change my setup here, or I'd have to raise the mount to get this up a little bit higher if I was thinking about wearing a binocular behind this.

But either way, what I'm going to do. I'm going to hold the minus down and by holding the minus down for 3 seconds, I just went to the circle and now I'm going to go to the circle 0.3 more seconds, and that's where I'm going to leave it because the other thing that this is going to allow me to do now is use those hash marks at the top and bottom, especially for elevation holds. So if I needed to go right into the face across the bedroom, I'd want to be just a little bit above that dot towards the edge of the circle. If I needed a head shot further out, I'm probably going to go towards the bottom of that circle. Obviously the body shots, what I'm counting on here is with the drop of that 9 millimeter round by being zeroed at this distance and turning it down a little bit so that I'm a little bit low, now I'm probably dead on at about 25, and we can confirm that obviously with live fire.

The next thing I'm worried about is brightness. Now out here today, it's overcast, but I need a relatively bright radical related to what we've got here. So I can set my, I think I'm on the 3rd. Or 4th. I'm on the 4th level of brightness that looks about right here, but I also can set this to auto mode.

So I've got a diode importantly on the front of this optic that's going to be reading light on the target. And to get into that mode, what I'm going to do is hold the plus down for. 3 seconds. By holding the plus down for 3 seconds, I'm going to switch to auto mode. I get a blink.

That's what tells me I'm in auto mode. And in this case, if I were to move to a darker area like off into this tree line here, still into the berm, if I move into that darker area, I get a dimmer. Circle dot. If I come back over here and I go onto that cardboard, I get a brighter circle dot. So what that's doing is it's reading ambient light and it's adjusting automatically.

This is going to be important if I were inside a building moving outside a building or if I were inside a building and I had the lights off and then the lights came on, I want to make sure that that brightness is going to increase also. So that's the advantage of auto mode. This also has shake awake. I can set the shake awake to different durations. It could be a 10 minute, it goes to sleep.

It could be a 1 hour it goes to sleep. It could be 12 hours it goes to sleep. Um, I'm perfectly happy with the shorter duration, knowing that it's going to come alive as soon as I pick it up, take it out of the quick access safe, or take it out of my staging area, pull it out of the backpack. Obviously if I'm walking around with that backpack, it's going to stay on. You can turn it completely off if you'd rather do that, but with a 50,000 hour battery life, I think you're, you're pretty well set up for the, the sleep at the minimum mode.

And that's how we set up the AIS Pro X2 from Hollow Sun.