Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA Excellent Half MOA Clicks

Description

The Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA is the green, plain dot version of Holosun’s enclosed 26mm rifle optic: one 2 MOA reticle at 540nm, half MOA adjustment clicks, solar failsafe, and both mount heights supplied. Part ARO-EVO-GR-2.

Green Is The Efficiency Argument

The Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA emits at 540nm, where human daylight vision peaks almost exactly. That is not a marketing line, it is how the eye is built, and it has a practical consequence: a green reticle looks brighter than a red one producing the same actual amount of light.

On a small reticle that headroom is worth more than it sounds. A 2 MOA dot has very little area to be seen with, so it needs to be crisp rather than merely bright, and pushing a dim emitter hard is exactly what makes a dot bloom into a starburst. The Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA reaches the brightness you need with room to spare, which is a large part of why the dot stays round instead of growing spikes.

Half MOA Clicks Are The Buried Specification

Adjustments on the Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA move 0.5 MOA per click, where the category standard is 1 MOA. Nobody advertises this and it is the number that decides whether you can actually zero a rifle or merely get close to it.

At a hundred yards each click shifts your impact half an inch. Paired with a 2 MOA dot fine enough that the reticle is not the limiting factor, you can walk a group onto the bull rather than watch it hop from one side to the other. Fifty MOA of total travel in each direction means you have the range to do it on any sane mount.

No Holdovers, And Why That Is Fine

Holosun sells the same housing as the Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA carrying the Special Purpose Reticle with 1 MOA holdovers, a 65 MOA circle and ranging references. It is a genuinely good tool if you shoot at known distances and put in the work to learn the subtensions.

The Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA is for the rest of us. If the rifle lives inside two hundred yards the holdovers never get used, and the circle is simply something else in the window. A single fine dot is the cleanest sight picture available, nothing arrives before it on a transition, and there is no menu to learn or change by accident. Simplicity is worth paying for when the complexity would never have earned its keep.

Magnifier Ready, And The Dot Size Suits It

The Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA housing is sized to sit in front of a flip to side magnifier. Dot size is the thing people get wrong when they add one later: a reticle subtends a fixed angle, so a 6 MOA dot seen through three power still covers 6 MOA of target and simply looks enormous, obscuring the detail the magnifier just revealed.

A 2 MOA dot stays 2 MOA whatever sits behind it. If a magnifier is anywhere in your plan for the rifle, the Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA is the version to start with rather than the one you replace in a year.

Enclosed, Solar Backed, IPX8

The emitter on the Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA is sealed inside the housing, so rain, snow, mud and lint cannot land on it and dim the reticle. Solar failsafe harvests ambient light and keeps the sight running if the CR2032 dies or is removed, and the cell is rated at 50,000 hours at brightness setting six, loading from a side tray so a battery change never means pulling the optic off the rail.

The Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA is 6061 aluminum, hard anodized, rated IPX8 for immersion and 1000G for vibration, measuring 2.87 by 1.68 by 2.7 inches at 4.3 ounces plus a 1.7 ounce mount. Shake Awake sleeps it when the rifle is still, automatic brightness reads the scene, manual control overrides it when the scene misleads, and lockout freezes everything. Eight daylight settings and four night vision settings.

Both Mount Heights In The Box

Holosun supplies a 1.63 inch lower one third co witness mount and a 1.05 inch low mount with the Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA. The taller sits the reticle above backup irons on a standard AR and gives a more upright head position; the lower shrinks your mechanical offset, which is what you want on a pistol caliber carbine or a shotgun. Most manufacturers supply one and sell you the other.

Specifications

• Model: Holosun ARO-EVO-GR-2
• Reticle: 2 MOA dot
• Reticle color: green, 540nm LED
• Window: 1.02 inch diameter, enclosed emitter, multi coated
• Magnification: 1x, parallax free, unlimited eye relief
• Adjustment: 0.5 MOA per click, plus or minus 50 MOA travel
• Battery: CR2032, 50,000 hours at setting 6, side loading removable tray
• Brightness: 8 daylight and 4 night vision settings, automatic and manual
• Power backup: solar
• Housing: 6061 aluminum, hard anodized, black
• Waterproof rating: IPX8
• Vibration resistance: 1000G
• Working temperature: -30C to 60C
• Dimensions: 2.87 x 1.68 x 2.7 inches
• Weight: 4.3 oz optic, 1.7 oz mount
• Mounts included: 1.63 inch lower 1/3 co witness and 1.05 inch low
• Mounting: Picatinny
• Features: solar, Shake Awake, auto off, memory, manual brightness, lockout
• UPC: 810047073659

Who The Holosun ARO EVO Green 2 MOA Suits

• Rifles that will run a flip to side magnifier now or later
• Shooters who want to zero precisely rather than approximately
• Anyone who finds a holdover reticle to be clutter they never use
• Carbines used where a red reticle keeps washing into brick, rust or brown
• Anyone who wants an enclosed emitter that weather cannot foul

Ordering

Manufacturer data is published at Holosun. We are a family owned FFL dealer in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and we will happily talk through whether the plain dot or the SPR reticle fits how you actually use the rifle. Compare with the rest of our optics selection.