single point sight

[archer24]

If I remember correctly, the cone type came out and was reviewed very favourably in Airgun World.
So I wanted one, but they were a weeks wages back then.
So a military one was advertised for less than £10 so I bought one....

[micky2]

I had a couple of these a few years ago and sold them on evilbay got about £35 each which at the time l thought was great. with hindsight l should have kept them.

[Muskett]

The cone type were the earlier and were sold to the military. They are collectable due to the POW rescue mission, but only in the US. Militarily they never did that well, as iron sights are about as good in good hands.
The civilian, hunting, version was pushed hard though rather than for running boar they found a niche with AGW air gun plinkers. And then as they were "space age" as Star Wars props; they were pretty cheap.
That the "dot" isn't exactly small they at best are fair for farmyard ranges. They are reasonably quick, but parallax issues and needing to be sighted to the individual, don't make them that accurate. Solid hit on target rather than precision.
Quite fun though.

The Sussex Armoury air rifle ones first came with a one piece front mount. These could crack the perspex if over tightened!!! They did look cool though. Many were mounted with two piece, usually fairly cheap ones of the time. Two piece were better, but often leave mount marks in the paint finish.

There were also barrel fibre optics beed sights for shotguns.

I've had at least ten Single Points over the years; two I sold at Star Wars prices. I buy any I find cheap.
There were two types of turret cap, rubber and metal. The thread to the metal type was short and poor so many were lost. The rubber ones weren't much good either.

[bighit]

OEG sights .

A video here with a history of them .

https://youtu.be/TN3_ALlQrlw

[averageplinker]

There seem to be quite a few on that auction sight currently lol

[harvey_s]

Here's some info I posted here years ago...

As far as I'm aware there were at least 2 types of red dot (day & night type) and at least 1 type of light green dot.
Some had rounded ends & some were squared off (I thought the squared off type were night versions rather than military ones...?)

They have an interesting history being used in the Son Tay raid to rescue american POW's held in North Vietnam..."In 1970 whilst training for the raid, Col. Arthur "Bull" Simons was unhappy that even his best shooters were getting only about 25% of the rounds fired at 50 metres into torso-sized targets. This wasn't too clever - when the expectation was to bring down the opponents with single well-aimed shots to avoid hitting the POW's. the story goes that one night Simons and his armorer were trying to solve the problem when they came across an ad for the Singlepoint OEG in Guns and Ammo. They ordered the nite versions and the results were amazing - even the poorest shooter could put all his rounds inside a 12" circle at 25m. with both eyes open, men could shift their fire from one target to another just as rapidly as daytime and with the same accuracy - the supply guys then went and bought enough to equip every raider with the sights"

http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/...669/Slide8.jpg

Here is a pic from the JFK Special Warfare Center Museum of an original Singlepoint in the mount:
http://www.usmilitaryknives.com/Son_Tay_raiderequip.jpg

[Mach 1.5]

There's one sitting on the dock of the bay at the moment. Already at £138.00. Mach 1.5