Between 1990 and 1993, Aimpoint experimented with a red dot optics that was pretty ambitious on several fronts. It used a rectangular window to maximize field of view for hunting rifles and shotguns (this was still Aimpoint’s main market at this point). It used a solar panel on top as a backup power source, and it was almost entirely made of plastic, including the main collimating lens. Unfortunately, the project proved unsuccessful, largely because of manufacturing challenges with the plastics. The body was difficult to keep properly rigid, and it was difficult to make a sufficiently precise main lens out of plastic.
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Flapper Locking video
By request, today we’re going to look at one of the less common locking systems used in firearms design: flapper locking. The idea was first patented by a Swede named Friberg in 1870, but a […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Nordic Cooperation: The Swedish M96 in Finnish Service
One of the significant foreign rifles in Finnish service during the Winter War and Continuation War was the Swedish M96 Mauser. These rifles began arriving in Finland even before Finland’s independence, and in 1919 the […]
Optics
Aimpoint ICE: A More Aesthetic 1990s Prototype Red Dot
https://youtu.be/GfIAE4PFJyQ During the 1990s, Aimpoint had a product developed who thought it would be good to develop a new red dot sight that had a more curved, organic look to it. The design he came […]
You learn more when you fail than when you succeed.
The point was to market a successful product, not to ‘learn.’
So has manufacturing technology advanced enough to make another try at the idea?
It still is, as anyone who has a $5.99 pair of drugstore “reading glasses” can attest.
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The non-glass lenses of my “glasses” are optically outstanding and lighter, but also considerably more expensive than glass lenses.
I have said this before, and nobody said anything – Might be nonsense. But if you had an Sa80 Susat sight. And you bolted onto the front a laser “Pen” so you could move its mount up/down left/right, and the laser pen faces you… Apart from, theres a scope around it, and the beam hits a mirror and goes out the front of the sight – The magnifier, the sight you are looking into. If its a decent “Laser pen” will your recticule I.e. The dot, not be the same at 200, 400, or 600. On a focus for, a turn in the sight paralex is is it at the same. If so, if you look above the sight at 100m will you not just see the dot. And thus is that not a decent, scope. It might not be, just asking.