Last week LaRue Tactical released the C-Note, a one-piece, Picatinny rail compatible iron sight for ARs designed to just slap-on and hit targets without sighting in. It has a similar sight radius and configuration to pistol sights. The name is due to its price, $100.
Naturally, someone asked “why?” Here’s LaRue’s response.
It makes sense. It’s a simple sighting system that can be moved from rifle to rifle.
www.larue.com/products/larue-tactical-c-note
What is the height specification? Does it co-witness to those tall optic mounts like Unity tactical FAST mount?
Eugene Stoner is looking down on everyone wondering how did it come to this…
You’ve obviously never seen the carrying handle and associated rear sight on an AR.
Actually…I was issued a carry handle Colt 727 back in the day along with variations of the M16A2 and run a personal build with a carry handle and front sight. As usual you seem incapable of reading comprehension and jump to conclusions. Eugene Stoner is looking down wondering how did it come to this implies his design originally included a front and rear sight with day/ night aperture, windage and range adjustments from 300-600, so how did it come to needing a basic 25 yard zero add on sighting system for flat top AR’s that come featureless?
PSA” deal of the day”gap filler. One more piece in the ” late war emergency production ” parts list. Astounding that magpul doesn’t make one.
Bu bu bu bu buzzwords!
*insert valueless critcism of new product here*
Low cost
Effective at usual home defense ranges
Doesn’t require any addtional adjustment or range trips to use
Why bother criticizing something you were never going to buy in the first place?
None of that is criticism. What an emergency production AR would look like has been an ongoing thought experiment. If anything I asked for a simpler cheaper one- plastic, no qd…..
It certainly is criticism. You’re classifying the item as a “deal of the day gap filler”, directly implying that it is a more or less novelty item that will sit on shelves unbought.
I really dislike Larue’s QD mount as it mars the crap out of the receiver and in time won’t be very secure. Bobro mounts are the way to go.
How is this better than mechanically zeroed “traditional” iron sights or offsets? I can think of several ways that it’s worse.
It’s not superior to properly zeroed sights. It’s not trying to be better, just different.
It’s trying to be a tool free “I don’t want to take time or spend the money or ammo to zero my sights” sighting option for flat top free floated guns that someone might own that don’t already have sights of any sort on them for use as a close range blaster where precision is not needed.
Magpul mbus3 set msrp is about the same price but then you have to zero it
Sig Romeo MSR is also around that price and again you have to zero it.
Again zeroed sights are always better but $100 to make a rifle usable just by slapping this on without the cost or time of a range trip
Is this April Fools?
I just zip tie a glock slide to my handguard. Problem solved.
This hyper-commercialization of weaponry as a “lifestyle” for losers to virtue signal to each other is disgusting. And it’s not just this product, everyone sees it.
Looks like similar concept as the 90s(?) JP Short Range Tactical Sight, but QD
I was thinking the same thing. I really did dig the JP short range sight but wasn’t set up to run it on 45 without a bunch of extras.
If I were in the situation that Mark LaRue describes, I think I’d be more inclined to buy a set of Magpul MBUS. And I would be in for $10-15 less total.
Boy o boy this one’s caught some flak, and I agree that the idea of a 25 yard one peice on/off sight seems useless on anything even remotely rifle-y but this seems like it could be pretty decent on a pcc or similar that someone isn’t trying to pop a 400$+ optic on but who also wants to add quality components. You all know this would look good on your POS fold-y boy keltecs and work better than the garbage sights it came with and not shit the bed as fast as that holosun strapped to it. But seriously this is probably pretty nice on a pcc.
Squarely in the camp of “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”.
If someone is buying cheap and stacking deep, they probably had, or should have had the, (pun alert), foresight to buy/build their conscript AR-15’s equipped with A-Frame fixed front sights. Slap on any fixed or folding rear sight that costs less than $100 and you’ll be ahead of Mr. LaRue by the difference in price. Another option would be 3-D print up a front sight that attaches to the carry handle via the optic mounting hole in the top center of the carry handle. Now you have a similar sight radius as the C-Note, with an adjustable rear sight aperture, for pennies.
as a gunsmith I could use one of those in my workshop to put it on any picatinny railed rifle for a quick test firing after repair.
But I would not recommend it to my customers. There are simply better products available in a similar or just slightly higher price range.
That’s not a bad idea, I hadn’t thought of that.
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JP Enterprises had this years ago – JP SRTS Short Range Tactical Sight
https://www.jprifles.com/photos_new/JPSRTS3_271.jpg
They did it first… And they did it better.
You guys are looking at this the wrong way because Larue justified the product incorrectly. What they should have said was “Imagine it’s the end of the world and you just smoked a bad guy with your pistol. You now have his AR-15. Pull the c-note out of your pack, slap it on top and get back to work.