Lenny Magill shows off the RBU for Glocks!

[Music] [Music] hey there it's Lenny McGill with the Gloucester performance a custom shop here in San Diego rainy day in San Diego and you know just back from the shot show at the shots show a guy comes to me and says hey I have a mount for red dot optics that I think you're really gonna like and I said well show me so we come to my booth you know come on over I want to show it to you sir so I went over in solid and it is cool because first of all the red dot optics thing is hot it is the most popular thing in the shooting sports right now people are switching to red dot optics because it makes you a faster and more accurate shooter it's easier and as you get a little older your eyes start to betray you and you cannot see the front sight and the rear sight in focus as much as you used to when you're younger that said red dot optics are super hot so that people are looking for solutions to mount their red dot optic of course here at our shop we have a machine shop and we get people send us their slides and we cut them the slide to the red dot optic and we mount the red dot optic nice and low and nice and tight on the slide it's a great option it's probably the best option because it's it's very low and it's very ergonomic and very pointable one thing people always get concerned about when they shoot red dot optics is that sights is so high that almost feels like they're shooting downhill because again the sights up here and the barrels down here and you are you do have to aim a little lower than you did with iron sights iron sights you're up here read that optic you're down here a little bit it's a little bit weird for people but once they get used to it I will guarantee you you will be a faster shooter once you get used to mounting the gun and bringing it up and seeing the red dot so everybody who is one of the top shooters they're all the top competitors all use red dot optics for a reason because they are faster to shoot with and it's actually easier because you're not having to rely on focus just a single dot so that said they're super popular and this next solution really kind of handles two things one it allows you to mount the red dot optic without cutting your slide because what she cut the slide it's cut and you know it's always gonna either need a red dot optics or it's gonna have a plate on top of it so you know it's it's a big commitment so this particular animal is what we call a dovetail mount but they took it one step further because when you use a dovetail amount in the the products we have in the past you also lost the ability to Co witness all right let's go witnesses where you have front and rear sights at the same time but this innovative product actually is a dovetail mount that incorporates a rear and front sight now check that out is that cool or what so it's all one piece of steel there is your rear sight the machined into it and there's your front sight and you'll see it's a little bit taller because it's gonna allow you to Co witness which means that you can see not only the red dot but you can also see the front and rear sights which is actually very good because if it's a self-defense gun and the dot goes bad because it's electronic and things could happen you still have a backup of your iron sights also it's nice to have the ability to Co witness because if you set it up properly the red dot it's gonna sit right on top of that front sight so when you come up you're seeing kind of everything you're seeing the front and rear sight as well as the red dot focus on the red dot and go if the red dot is anywhere close to that post hey you're lined up you're centered up you're ready to go so it's a good tool and I will say this to you it's easy to install and I'm going to demonstrate that right now so what I've got here is I've got the the optic mount for a Trijicon RMR I've got a Trijicon RMR right here it's ready to go so I've got the site itself and I've got the actual mount and I've got a slide and I gotta use the silver slide so you can actually see it go on so let me go and get these screws out of here and we'll kind of get this thing rolling here so now keep in mind that the amount we're talking about is available for a variety of different lights or should I say sights red dot optics it is of course the RMR there are for a delta point there are four vortex Vipers and some of the other manufacturers and probably more to come there's a specific one for the RMR there's a universal one that fits many different guns and there's also a specific one for the the Delta Point Pro and I've got a pre mounted and this is give you a an idea now that Delta Point Pro because they actually sell a rear sight with their their optic this one just incorporates the front sight only but if you look through there that's what you're gonna kind of see see it that's the idea so you're gonna see the the sight through the glass and again on the bottom you're gonna notice there's the dovetail and now for those of you who are thinking ahead of me you already figured it out so here's your sight here's your slide you take off your rear sight you can take off your front sight as well if you like doesn't really matter it's gonna sit a little bit lower if it's a standard front sight there's your mount okay on the bottom is a dovetail cut out there's your dovetail cut out as well on the slide obviously it's gonna fit like so I'm gonna start it by hand okay now just like any sight you're gonna tap this into place you'll notice there are two set screws that are kind of backed off I've got a minute just replacement right now okay those set screws once I get this into place I will tap down into the dovetail to make sure that thing is nice and tight okay some people you know may think you have to file or polish you really should not have to do much to your dovetail if it's cut correctly it's gonna fit you know do you need to put a lubricant in there oh no you probably don't okay I mean if you do it may slide around a little bit even with the things there the the set screws so I would say let's just go ahead and put it in dry it's gonna take a little bit of effort with your punch and your hammer I've got the the nylon hammer which I want to use because I don't want to Mar that up don't want to use the steel end I'm gonna go ahead and tap it in now keep in mind there is a version of this mount with tritium inserts there the night sights okay so when you're tapping there's a technique you want to use so you do not damage those tritium inserts so the eternium inserts are pieces of glass little glass tubes that are embedded with the tritium and they that's the radioactive material that glows for 10 years so that said the technique is kind of the open hand concept where you're holding this slide and your hand is free and we tap it now what you don't want to do when you have tritium inserts is have it on the table and tap it boom boom boom like that because the vibration may damage those tritium inserts so I could do that with this one because it does not have the tritium inserts but I don't want to show you that habit because if you get one and then you do it on the table and you beat it and you break your tritium in so you're gonna be mad at me so let me show you how I would do it that would keep my hand free and I would just hit it okay and see how kind of you know I'm not I'm not trying to resist I'm letting it go and just tapping it across now I tapped it too far and so now we just want to make sure we Center it up oh wow that's pretty doing good got lucky I think I'm gonna just do a little bit there and that's it Oh too much channel so you'll see it doesn't really take a whole lot of effort to put these on there but you just make sure you're centered up and I can do that there's a couple things to you know kind of to notice here the dovetail cutout itself is right there now if you're getting close you'll see that right there and I see that piece right there you exact let me get my little small little punch here this piece right here is what we're talking about and I'm gonna look in and down here and this angle here and the lighting is not great but it's just a small piece of it sticking out so I'm looking at that I'm say okay that's that's something the one side let me go to the other side and look at the other side and there's a little bit more sticking out on the other side so then I would think okay well I'm probably I need I need to come over just a little bit no not a lot just want to tap it a little bit and I want to Center those up and even them up on either side and now it looks a little bit more even it does it does it does it looks good I can look at it from the top and same thing I when I'm looking on both sides people go from the rear as well make sure everything seems to match up and I think it looks pretty good to see ya just tap it away and here you go look at the backside now I'll see if I can square up to the camera here and zoom in there and I think I've got it pretty well evened up on both sides and again there's really no magic here you really just have to eyeball this thing and see what looks best you certainly want it to be as centered up as possible so now that I've got it centered up before I do anything I want to go ahead and use my set screws to set it into place and keeping in mind two things that if I set one screw down all the way it's gonna tilt it and it may even move it because as you turn the screw the piece moves would be very careful that you don't move it out of alignment as you set your set screws all right because that is possible I think this is the right bit let's see here there we go okay so I'll do these by hand right now just to get them started and I'm gonna go down and just you see I'm not even using the tool right now I just want to get them started down I don't want to crank one side because it will definitely throw it off so now that I've got it set there I will come back and tighten it down again and tighten it down again now I'm going to pull the tool out and actually give it a little bit more muscle and go back and forth between the pieces here so let me turn it around so you can see a little bit better and here we go okay now so what we have effectively done now if you notice what those screws are gonna do dovetail goes in the screws come down and they hit the slide and they push up on the dovetail that so they capture it in place you could use Loctite on those because there's gonna be a lot of vibration and there will be some heat so I didn't put it on here because I will take it off later but if you could you know let me a little blue loctite will help keep those from vibrating loose however once you put your red dot optics on top of that it's gonna prevent them from moving too much yeah flush they're sitting just below flush right now that one thread below flush so they certainly are biting into the slide and that's gonna prevent this thing from having any movement to it you'll notice it fits nice and tight so it's really nice I think I'm very happy with the with the fit of this thing so I think it's a it's a great system and the one thing I really like about it is the fact that it incorporates the front rear sight and it's so easy to put on and everything else so now it's from here it's really easy here's my red dot optic notice the batteries already installed this is how the RMR goes okay and I'm just gonna no you'll you'll see the two posts on that mount go ahead just drop this in there and it just gonna grab all that and there's a rock solid finish I've got two screws that go with it drop those guys into their respective holes and we're just gonna go ahead and tighten this stuff down and again being very careful not to disturb the the way it sits so I'm gonna hold it down and come in here and do just by hand just get it finger tight not even that tight just down so I'm starting to get it set into the mount itself another one over here and another one there here and there these are like quarter or eighth turns now come with my tool and put a little pressure on it and again these should be locked itíd okay I'm not doing it for this demonstration but I would encourage you to lock tight these into place blue loctite is good because you can actually remove that a lot easier than you can with the red lock day okay that's pretty easy right it really is it's a simple little process hammer allen wrench that's about it but now let's look and see what we've got you're gonna see the rear sight and let's see if I can get something back here here we go rear sight and front sight just like that and the camera angles not allow you see as much as the rear sight as he should be but you can't I can see it and that red dot no if you'll see the red dot or see some of the red dot in there I'll see if I can find the realize there is that big red dot right there obviously the red dot is not that big but there's kind of what you're gonna see when everything's lined up that red dots gonna be perfect you see how much moving my hand is here so this is a cool device and it's really perfect for those of you who you know want to experiment with red dot optics it is tight to the slide it does definitely have a nice feel there you know it's not as good as cutting in this light I'll be honest but if you don't want to go there you don't wanna spend the money for that or wait for it this is something you can do at home and it's something that you can then hey I'm not really into it or I don't like it that much take the whole thing off and put your regular sights back on so it's got a great option available for you also like I said available and standard sites or night sights for the different red dot optics so we've got it on our website you know you'll go in you'll pick your red dot optical picture standard sites or the night sights and then basically it's in your cart and you go from there but like you said the insolation easy simple and this is certainly a nice effective way to get yourself started in the red dot optics world I'm Lenny McGill you will shoot faster I guarantee you if you go with red dots this of course is the Glocks or performance a custom shop here in San Diego forever in San Diego I do invite you to come by and see us we've got a really cool shop really good people work out there with me I'm really blessed with that and also we've got these incredible shooting rooms so we don't shoot down lanes we shoot in a room with multiple targets and you can try out red dot optics some of our custom guns and all the different things that we show here as well as the the gun fit exercises we do and the shooting of multiple targets and the training we do so invite you to come to San Diego anytime because we're open basically all the time thanks for watching I'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: GlockStore

Views: 116,537

Rating: 4.8611712 out of 5

Keywords: GlockStore, Lenny Magill, RBU, Re Dot Optics, Red Dot Backup, Glock, handguns, dovetail mount, red dot mount

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Length: 17min 39sec (1059 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 01 2019