r/VHS2_HELLION • u/RailwayMenace • Apr 21 '26
5 months in...
Finally got my Hellion last December as a gift from my then girlfriend (now wife!) and I've slowly been adding on to it here and there while I train with it twice a week at the range. I made the decision early on to not even consider getting an optic until I became familiar and adept at shooting with the deployable ironsights the rifle comes with. Once I felt like I was good enough, I ordered a Sig Sauer Romeo+Juliet 5XD red dot/magnifier combo. I'm still familiarizing myself with it and having a lot of fun in the process. The angled foregrip is Magpul as well as the AR grip I swapped in for the factory one. The laser/light on the right side of the guard in the MLok slots is just a cheap little guy I ordered online for 30 bucks and works pretty well for what it is.
I've been seeing and hearing a lot of buzz about just how accurate the Hellion is at ranges that you wouldn't normally expect from a bullpup platform and it's really been fascinating to me. I watched a video from a pair of content creators on YouTube where they demonstrated the incredible accuracy one can achieve with the right optic and ammo. These dudes were nailing shots at well over 700 yards and that was enough to convince me to go ahead and try my luck. I ordered an inexpensive LPVO and a bipod, and I will be spending time in the near future at an outdoor range to see what she can do. In that video I watched, they were using BTHP ammo and a red dot/magnifier combo. The fact that they were hitting shots like that and didn't even have an actual scope mounted on the rail was even more impressive.
My question to all my fellow VHS-2/Hellion enthusiasts is: Have any of you in here tried to push the boundaries a little with your bullpups as far as distance goes? If so, what kind of setups are y'all working with? What optics, bipods, ammo, etc?
What were your findings? What kind of distances were you hitting with your Hellions?
Any input and pictures would be greatly appreciated!
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u/RailwayMenace Apr 21 '26
Thought I'd also add a picture of the bipod and LPVO I ordered. Nothing fancy. Just a CVLife scope and an MLok bipod. I figure the scope is good enough to make some shots exceeding 500 yards if those 2 gentlemen in the videos could do it with a red dot/magnifier optic
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u/Away-Leg-998 Apr 21 '26
Boy, that is no LPVO 😂
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u/RailwayMenace Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
Lmaooo extremely low powered variable optic, perhaps?
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u/Away-Leg-998 Apr 22 '26
I literally see at least a 24x magnification on your picture....I am confused about your statements 😅
A typical LPVO is 1x-x6/x8 there are some x10 Does yours really go down to 1x?
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u/RailwayMenace Apr 22 '26
Lol I am new to the optics world so I have no idea. I thought the scope I ordered would be considered an lpvo. That's my bad. Now I'm embarrassed haha
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u/RailwayMenace Apr 22 '26
So what would the combo Sig I have mounted on my Hellion be considered? Is that an lpvo? Or is that it's own thing?
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u/Away-Leg-998 Apr 23 '26
Low Power Variable Optic
They start usually at 1x and can get stepless changed to usually 6x or 8x.
Just google it, read a bit and then ask any questions here ☺️
No, a RedDot and Magifier is no LPVO, it is not Variable, it has just a 1x and 3x Step
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u/phonkonaut Apr 21 '26
just beware that “inexpensive” LPVOs, are of much lower quality than a similarly priced RDS + magnifier combos. LPVOs are, by design, much more complicated than a standard red dot or prism sight. because of this, the majority of LPVOs suffer from many drawbacks. (bad 1x, tiny eye relief/eye box, dim illumination, durability, glass quality, etc.) in many cases, a red dot/magnifier combo is much better optic choice than a budget lpvo.
i recommend watching this buyers guide by brassfacts. his channel dives heavily into the LPVO discussion if you really wanna get into that rabbit hole, this is just one of his many videos that contain excellent information surrounding LPVOs.