Description
The Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle is an enclosed pistol sight with three layers of power behind it and two ways to aim. Solar failsafe, a CR1620 rated at 50,000 hours, and Shake Awake, driving a gold 2 MOA dot, a 32 MOA circle, or both. Part EPS-GD-MRS.
Three Layers Of Power Is The Real Story
Most optics have one power source and a runtime figure. The Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle has a hierarchy, and each layer covers the failure mode of the one above it.
Shake Awake is the first layer: the sight sleeps when the pistol is still, so the 50,000 hour rating on the CR1620 describes far more calendar time than it sounds like. The battery is the second layer. Solar failsafe is the third, harvesting ambient light and running the Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle on its own if the cell dies or is removed entirely. The realistic failure case for a pistol optic is a dead battery in a gun that sat for two years, and this arrangement closes that door.
Circle And Dot Inside A Sealed Housing
Enclosed sights usually come with a single dot rather than the reticle set in the Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle, because the enclosed format tends to mean duty, and duty tends to mean keep it simple. The Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle does not accept that limitation.
You get a 2 MOA dot for precision, a 32 MOA circle for speed, or the circle with the dot inside it, all projected from the same emitter so nothing needs re-zeroing when you switch. The circle is what makes a defensive optic fast to pick up under stress, and the dot is what lets you use the same gun at the range without feeling handicapped. Having both in a sealed housing is a genuinely uncommon combination.
The Aspheric Lens Earns Its Place
Enclosed optics like the Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle put two pieces of glass between your eye and the target instead of one, and cheap execution of that shows up as a dim, faintly distorted window. Holosun uses an aspheric lens, whose curve is not a simple section of a sphere, to keep the geometry honest across the whole window rather than only in the middle.
What that means in use is that the 32 MOA circle on the Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle stays round near the edges of the glass, and the picture does not shift as your head moves. Combined with unlimited eye relief, you can shoot it from an awkward position and the sight picture stays trustworthy.
Why Gold On A Carry Gun
The Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle emits at 590nm, between red and green. It matters because the two common colors each have a background they lose to: red against brick, rust, wood and brown clothing, green against grass, foliage and painted steel.
A defensive pistol does not get to choose its backdrop. The Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle picks the wavelength that belongs to neither failure case, which is a reasonable answer to a problem you cannot plan around. It is the least common reticle color Holosun sells and, for a gun that might be used anywhere, arguably the most defensible.
K Footprint, 1.4 Ounces, IPX8
The Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle mounts directly to a K footprint slide and measures 1.63 by 1.19 by 0.99 inches at 1.4 ounces. The housing is 7075 T6 aluminum, anodized, rated IPX8 for immersion and tested to 5000G of vibration.
One number to know before you order: adjustments move 1.5 MOA per click across 30 MOA of travel in each direction. That is coarser and shorter than the full size 407 and 507 optics. On a true slide cut it is ample. If you are mounting through a stacked plate on a pistol that has already given you zeroing trouble, mention it and we will check the numbers with you first.
Specifications
- Model: Holosun EPS-GD-MRS
- Type: enclosed pistol sight
- Reticle: 2 MOA dot, 32 MOA circle, or circle with dot
- Reticle color: gold, 590nm LED
- Window size: 0.90 x 0.63 inches, aspheric lens
- 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
- Power backup: solar failsafe
- Housing: 7075 T6 aluminum, anodized, black
- Waterproof rating: IPX8
- Vibration resistance: 5000G
- Dimensions: 1.63 x 1.19 x 0.99 inches
- Weight: 1.4 oz
- Footprint: K, direct mount
- Features: Shake Awake, solar failsafe
- UPC: 810047074731
Who The Holosun EPS Gold Multi Reticle Is For
- Carry and duty guns where a blocked emitter is not an acceptable failure
- Anyone who wants a circle to find the target and a dot to shoot it with
- K footprint slides that do not need an adapter
- Owners who would rather the optic never depend on one power source
- Shooters whose red or green reticle keeps vanishing into the background
Ordering
Manufacturer specifications are published at Holosun. We are a family owned FFL dealer in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and we would rather confirm your slide cut with you than have the sight come back. The rest of our optics selection is here if you want to weigh enclosed against open.
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