Lightest CLOSE RANGE SIGHT for an AR with MAGNIFIED OPTICS?

[Loner]

I currently use a RDPII mini red dot with a matt burkett offset mount. You can mount it behind your magnified optics or in front. The setup should cost you around $235.

[Gunfighter13]

Yeah, I have been examining online all the various BUIS options and how they would mate up with the YHM angled riser and it isn't looking like what I thought it would be like. For example, the Troy system would require at least a 3-slot YHM riser, and even then it would overhang. Same with the front... The five-slot riser is out as it will not fit behind the Larue SPR mount...

So it looks like the Aimpoint T1 on a YHM angled riser or the DR on a Larue SPR ring adapter are the ONLY options... I just didn't want to spend all that money $$$$$$. It will probably have to wait till next year before I have that kind of $$$ to throw at a recreational shooter. Till then, if needed, I will point shoot. I do pretty good (majority are chest area hits), even out to fifty yards...

I just wish there was something cheap and simple...

Rmpl

The only thing about using a powered optic is that for 99% of the time you will just be burning batteries. Like KevinB said you might not have the time to flip up the sights so I would think that having to turn one on would not work unless you leave it on when you are working the gun. I had looked into mounting pistol night sights on rails instead of using flip up sights. I just want to get away from the battery-operated sights as a short range or backup sight.

[Rmplstlskn]

I had looked into mounting pistol night sights on rails instead of using flip up sights. I just want to get away from the battery-operated sights as a short range or backup sight.

Finding a pistol sight setup would be ideal, and maybe some with tritium even... The real issue, since they are so low, is mounting them in a place the eye can use them by just flipping the rifle a few degrees without major cheek weld movement.

Since it will be awhile before I can justify a T-1 purchase, I am going to experiment with some ideas... I wish I would have kept my old glock Trijicons now ..
Rmpl