Scope\Sight Recommendation

Mauriceg

Got a new red dot sight, fitted it to my gun and went out skirmishing. To cut a long story short, the glass got shot out of it within an hour. What scope or sight would people recommend that will last the course i.e. is reasonably BB proof.

Thanks

Maurice

Sam Fisher

Some of the options mate..

If you're using a Eotech holo sight, and they are pretty expensive, you should get one of these..

http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ProductDetail?prodID=26329

If you are using a standard 30mm dot sight, try this..

http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ProductDetail?prodID=26814

Alternatively, if you can always get this, it's like a protective shield for most red/green dot sights..

http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ProductDetail?prodID=23991

Firekitten

what scope was it that you were using? I've heard of glass getting shot out, but ive never seen it myself. I suggest if you go for an optic, something like an aimpoint, or acog with a fairly small objective lens that is relatively thick.

Puding

i use flash killers to protect my scopes/reddots, you can pic them up for 5 - 10 usd and there are versions for aimpoint replica, acog replica, 30mm 40mm 50mm scopes, there a simple mesh cap that screws onto the optics, there designed to stop reflections but have the added benafit in airsoft of protection from bb strikes

bullets

Did the glass all crumble when it broke or did it crack ?

On some the the cheap Reddot/eotech it shows on the instruction leaflets that the glass is tempered.
(Which it should be for safety) it should mean the glass is tougher than
normal glass , and shatter into cube or sphere like pieces, rather than crack.

Problem with tempered glass is you cant cut it or drill it after the tempering process
it has to be shaped/cut etc before its tempered.

I was curious to know if some of the Chinasoft replica`s of Red Dots actually
made them with with Tempered glass (probably more expensive to make?) or
did the use Plain old dangerous glass that could have yer eye out!

(I was not going to go to the expense of testing my ones just to see
how well it breaks! )
~B

Firekitten

Bloody good job people wear eye protection when skirmishing eh?

Mauriceg

Sam Fisher wrote: »

Some of the options mate..

If you're using a Eotech holo sight, and they are pretty expensive, you should get one of these..

http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ProductDetail?prodID=26329

If you are using a standard 30mm dot sight, try this..

http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ProductDetail?prodID=26814

Alternatively, if you can always get this, it's like a protective shield for most red/green dot sights..

http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ProductDetail?prodID=23991

Thanks for the tips there Sam, some things I never considered.

Firekitten - the sight was a cheapo red dot holographic job:

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Airsoft-Holographic-Multi-4-Reticle-Red-Green-Dot-Sight_W0QQitemZ230379692297QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_SportingGoods_Hunting_ShootingSports_ET?hash=item35a3b32109&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Did the job until it got knocked out

To answer Bullets question, the glass cracked. It looked like laminated glass as it didn't shatter. The crack was right in the middle so it was ruined.

And Puding - where do you pick up your flash killers?

Thanks all

Firekitten

I see, that would be why hon, those cheap holosights are about as tough as a game of junior scrable... Not much you can do to protect one, unless you cut a disk of perspex to put infront of one?

Suggest you try as Pudding suggested and fit a killflash to an aimpoint or similar.

Mauriceg

I hear what you say - you pay for what you get. The thing is, the brother in law forked out a rake of money for a sight for his SCAR and he lost the front lense of that as well! Ah well, guess we'll just have to learn to be smaller targets

Inari

The best thing to do is, as has already been posted:
- Buy a good quality (no need to break the bank) red/green dot sight
- Buy a protector that mounts on RIS, so that it won't break and your problemo is solved

Failing that you could make your own protection device. All you'd have to do is test the materials with point blanc shots. Then you could fix the material onto the sight itself, or fashion an RIS mount and fix it to the rail.

Firekitten

the ris mounted ones seem silly and look silly... Its often easier to afix a perspex cutout to the optic front, it wont effect visibility, but as the shock is transfered laterally down teh frame, unlikely to damage either.