Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA Excellent Rear Sight Notch

Description

The Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA is the carry sized enclosed sight with a single 2 MOA red dot and, unusually, a rear sight notch machined into the housing. No circle, no reticle menu, 1.23 ounces, and both micro compact footprints covered from the box. Part EPS-CARRY-RD-2.

The Rear Sight Notch Is The Feature Nobody Mentions

Holosun cuts a rear sight notch into the back of the Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA into the back of this housing. It is easy to overlook on a spec sheet and it solves a problem every optics ready pistol owner eventually thinks about.

If the dot ever fails, or the glass fogs, or the emitter is obscured, an optic without irons leaves you aiming at a blank window. With the Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA the notch is already there, so pairing it with a tall front sight gives you a usable backup sight picture without adding anything or changing your holster. On a gun you carry rather than shoot at a range, that redundancy is worth having and costs you nothing in size.

Which EPS Carry Is This One

Holosun sells several sights under the EPS Carry name alongside the Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA and they are genuinely different, so it is worth being explicit. This is the red version with a 2 MOA dot and no circle.

The MRS versions add a 32 MOA ring you can switch on, which helps enormously while you are still learning to find the dot on a draw. The 6 MOA versions use a larger dot that is faster to pick up and less precise. The Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA is the choice for a shooter whose presentation is already consistent and who wants the cleanest possible window with one fine aiming point in it and nothing else.

Enclosed, Because A Carry Gun Collects Things

An open reflex sight, unlike the Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA, fires its emitter upward from an exposed shelf at a lens. It works until holster lint, sweat, sunscreen, gun oil or rain lands on that emitter, at which point the reticle dims or dies and you find out at the worst possible moment.

The Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA has no exposed emitter. The assembly is sealed inside the housing with glass at both ends, so there is nothing for debris to land on and nothing to wipe before you can trust the dot. That is the single most meaningful durability difference in the pistol optic market and the reason enclosed sights have taken over carry and duty use.

Ultra Low Deck Height And An Aspheric Lens

Deck height on the Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA is how far the optical axis sits above the mounting surface, and it never appears in a comparison chart. A lower sight means less offset between your line of sight and the bore, which matters at contact distance, and it means standard height irons are far more likely to show in the bottom of the window rather than disappearing below it. The Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA is built deliberately low for both reasons, which on an enclosed sight takes real engineering.

The Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA lens is aspheric rather than a simple section of a sphere. Enclosed sights put two pieces of glass between your eye and the target instead of one, and cheap execution shows up as a dim, faintly distorted window. An aspheric lens keeps the image geometrically honest across the whole window rather than only in the middle, so the dot stays round near the edges and the picture does not shift as your head moves.

Both Micro Footprints Covered

The Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA mounts directly to a K footprint slide, and Holosun includes an RMSc to K adapter plate. The micro compact world is split between those two cuts and which one your pistol uses is not always obvious from the marketing, so having both covered avoids buying a sight and then waiting on a plate before you can shoot it.

One number to check first: adjustments move 1.5 MOA per click across 30 MOA of travel each way, coarser and shorter than the full size 407 and 507 optics. On a true slide cut that is ample. Through a stacked plate on a pistol that already points slightly off it is less headroom than you may expect, so if a previous optic fought you on that gun, mention it before you order.

Specifications

• Model: Holosun EPS-CARRY-RD-2
• Type: enclosed pistol sight, carry size
• Reticle: 2 MOA dot, no circle
• Reticle color: red, 650nm LED
• Window size: 0.77 x 0.58 inches
• Magnification: 1x, unlimited eye relief
• Adjustment: 1.5 MOA per click, plus or minus 30 MOA travel
• Battery: CR1620, 50,000 hours at setting 6, side loading tray
• Brightness: 8 daylight and 4 night vision settings
• Housing: 7075 T6 aluminum, anodized, black
• Waterproof rating: IPX8
• Vibration resistance: 5000G
• Working temperature: -30C to 60C
• Dimensions: 1.63 x 1.07 x 0.95 inches
• Weight: 1.23 oz
• Footprint: K, direct mount, RMSc to K adapter plate included
• Features: built in rear sight notch, aspheric lens, ultra low deck height, Shake Awake
• UPC: 810047072225

Who The Holosun EPS Carry Red 2 MOA Is For

• Carry guns where you want a backup sight picture built into the optic
• Shooters whose presentation is consistent and who want precision over speed
• Anyone who finds a circle dot reticle to be clutter they never asked for
• K or RMSc cut micro compacts, both covered from the box
• Duty pistols where a blocked emitter is not an acceptable failure

Ordering

Manufacturer specifications are published at Holosun. We are a family owned FFL dealer in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and if you are newer to pistol optics we will tell you the MRS version with its ring is probably the better first sight. The MRS and 6 MOA versions and the rest of our optics selection are here to compare.