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.
Book review
Book Review – Smith & Wesson Model 76 SMG by Frank Iannamico
Available from Amazon or direct from the publisher. Frank Iannamico’s new book on the Smith & Wesson Model 76 submachine gun is in fact a book about much more than just the Model 76. It begins […]
Mystery
Mystery Swede
We found these photos of a Swedish semiauto conversion, and have no information on the design. Have you seen this rifle? Any insights? The only reason we’re even saying it’s Swedish is the “Stockholms Vapenfabrik” […]
Semiauto Rifles
AG42 Ljungman: Sweden Adopts a Battle Rifle in WWII
Sweden developed, adopted, and produced a new self-loading rifle during World War Two. The process began in 1938, with an attempt by the state rifle factory to convert Swedish Mauser bolt actions into semiautomatic; that […]
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.