This is the SinglePoint red dot sight, an early occluded eye gunsight (OEG) that predates the Armson OEG. This sight would have been used by the SpecOps that carried out the Son Tay raid in Vietnam.
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I think I’d rather use the iron sights.
nobody gonna talk about the mag lol
Bro didn't even show how the reticle look like
You completely skipped that it's an occluded sight, you can't see through it. Your dominant eye sees a dot against a black background, your other eye sees past it and parallax imposes that dot on the target. One advantage to this is you can use it in extremely bright conditions and still see the dot as it's always contrasted against darkness. You could literally aim at a blazing flashlight and still see the dot. You can do this with modern red dots just by covering or taping over the sight. I did this to a Sig MSR and never had to adjust my brightness as my dominant eye always saw the dot just the same in any light condition. I could keep it on "2" for months. Pick it up and point, no dialing.
I bet it takes a D battery
I love the part where you showed us the scope
Thanks for the site picture
Awesome thanks for sharing this 👍
Good job on showing the sight picture!!!
Yeah sure make an entire video about an optic and dont think about showing what it looks like
"Raid, shadow legends" 👀💀
Not even gonna show us the sight picture? We got jipped
Skinny magazine makes yo gun look ugly af
i would love somthng like that on my weapon just for the historic aspect thankyou for shareing
If anyone's curious, the optic's basically a red fiber optic cable in the middle. You know that red backup optical cable sight the ACOG has? That's the reticle.
The caveat to this is that, you need both eyes to ADS If you only sight down with one eye open, you'll either only see the reticle, or you'll see everything BUT the reticle.
It also wasn't very accurate, but it did set the stage for modern red dots in the next few decades.
Riveting display of that sight there Buddy, really got a good view of how it looks. Would’ve been nice to look down the sight but hey it’s whatever
My mom has one without the rail mounts and it has alot of batteries…. She keeps it in her nightstand drawer…. Bahaha jkjk
I hate it when they don’t show you the sight picture.
"Were you able to save the POWs?"
"Nah, but these new optics are pretty cool tho"
Could I hypothetically practice shooting with both eyes open on this sight if I wanted to do so on a modern sight?
Can we see what the reticle looks like
I had one on my air rifle when I was a kid, they were good
Now you just need to get those early red nightvison goggles that made helicopter pilots see demons or some sh!t.
Now if it was chambered in .44 magnum
Show the sight picture. Also, that's not old. That's chambered in a small caliber.
69 in nahm you weren't there man
While I'm not a Colt Fanboy…..I do love my 9mm Colt! However I'm still not a fan of loading the Uzi mags. Lol
I looked through one of these at a gun show. These things suck. You cant even see through them.
All that video and didn’t let us see the dot. What a waist of time
When I was in the British army in the early 1970’s, we bought these as a personal add on….until they were BANNED for troops by the government.
We don’t get a look at the reticle?
Doesn't even show us how it looks.
Hold right click bro
No shit, this guy doesn't seem to think that's what we are here for.
What kind of monster wouldn’t show us what the reticle looks like
666th comment. And cod thinks we had a modern red dot in WW2.
Making a vid about a sight and not showing the sight is a warcrime
should be a crime to talk about an optic while having no intention of showing the sight picture
Me thinking the gun looks Awsome then seeing the 9mm mag