The SI GUM is a GLOCK Universal (Optic) Mount will give you the ability to mount the most popular red dot style pistol optics without the hassle or expense of cutting and milling your slide. This innovative platform uses the GLOCK rear sight dovetail cut and a series of set screws to give you a rock solid optic mount. It gives you the lowest bore axis of any other optics platform in the industry. Solid steel construction and Strike Industries quality will give you a lifetime of use.

These days there are many quality muzzleloaders capable of precision accuracy at 200 yards. But maximizing muzzleloader accuracy is more difficult than shooting tight groups with a centerfire rifle. You have to start with a solid platform. This means you need a quality gun. What makes a quality gun? Well, a good barrel, a solid stock and a decent trigger. Pretty much everything else is an accessory.

“The Vortex SPARC is ideal for use as a backup red dot sight mounted on a side rail of a tactical rifle, yet shooters wishing to place it in a more traditional location will benefit from this optic as well.”

There’s nothing like looking at a website full of scopes and seeing dollar amounts ranging from $75 all the way to $3000 and not being able to discern much of a difference just by looking at the picture. As we stated earlier, most scopes look like black tubes, and it’s hard to tell solely from a visual standpoint what makes one scope more expensive than the other.

In its simplest form, the rifle scope is nothing more than a tube that houses lenses for magnification and a reticle for indicating your bullet’s point of impact, essentially a small telescope with cross hairs. The Main tube can be of either a one or two piece construction. Tubes are most often constructed of high quality aluminum, commonly noted as “aircraft aluminum”, but have also been built from titanium and steel. Aluminum is probably your best bet, titanium can be heavier and more costly, while steel requires more attention to prevent rust.