Red Dot Mounts | Everything You Need to Know, and More

00:00 - Intro
00:54 - Safety Check
01:20 - Material and Design
03:48 - How to Tell if Your Gun is Optics Ready
11:35 - Red Dot Footprints

Cody tackles the toughest questions we receive about our red dot mounting plates.

Our red dot mounts are made from 7075 T6 aircraft grade aluminum and are hardcoat anodized. They are machined to be a press in fit in the dovetail cuts on pistols and revolvers. Certain manufacturer's slides may require some minor fitting to properly install the mount.

All of our mounts come with the required installation hardware.

We now have optics ready plates for:
Sig 320 Optics Ready / M17 ( we will have a plate that is specifically for this application in a few weeks)
https://www.egwguns.com/pistol-and-red-dot-mounts/?model=818

Walther Q5 Match
https://www.egwguns.com/pistol-and-red-dot-mounts/?model=1044

HK VP9
https://www.egwguns.com/pistol-and-red-dot-mounts/?model=1046

Springfield Hellcat
https://www.egwguns.com/pistol-and-red-dot-mounts/?model=1068

Sig P365
https://www.egwguns.com/pistol-and-red-dot-mounts/?model=1067

RMR Cut Zev Slides
https://www.egwguns.com/pistol-and-red-dot-mounts/?model=1067

Our mounts will not work with Optics Ready models including but not limited to:
Glock MOS
S&W M&P Core
Canik TP9SFX

We recommend using a sight pusher tool to remove the old sight and install our mounting plate. Delrin or brass punches can be used, but we always recommend the sight pusher tool.

Sight pusher tools are available at Brownell's, MidwayUSA, and Amazon.

Most of our mounts have a slight lead on the dovetail cut and are meant to be installed from the left to the right.

We recommend using a drip of blue loctite. This will act as a lubricant when installing and will also be an extra layer of protection keeping the mount in place. We recommend not over tightening the set screw.

The mounting screws use a 5/64 bit and should be tightened to 15 in/lbs or whatever the recommend torque is from the manufacturer of the red dot.

We offer a ton of mounts for many different rear sight cuts. If you are unsure of your rear sight cut, please give us a call and we can help guide you to choose the correct dovetail cut.

We have mounting solutions for:

Vortex Viper/Venom
Burris Fastfire
Crimson Trace CTS 1200
ADE 1200
Docter

Trijicon RMR/SRO
Holosun HS507C, HS407C, HS508C

Leupold DeltaPoint Pro
Optima
Jpoint
Redfield Accelerator
Holosun HS407K, HS507K (when rear pins are removed from the plate)

Vortex Razor
C-More RTS, STS
Sig Romeo 3 Max

Written by Cody Peters
Edited by Zachary Stubits
Filmed by Zachary Stubits
Produced by Cody Peters and Zachary Stubits