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The Aimpoint History
In 1974, a small group of Swedish entrepreneurs started exploring ways to improve shooting accuracy. Their goal was simple but ambitious - to create a sighting technology that would allow shooters to acquire their target quickly, and to hit moving targets in all weather and lighting conditions consistently and accurately. Little did they know at the time that their invention, the Aimpoint® red dot sight, would revolutionize the shooting and hunting industry.
The company’s first commercial sight product, the Aimpoint® Electronic, was introduced to the market in 1975.
The Aimpoint® red dot sight has continued to evolve over the past 40 years by working closely with experienced hunters, marksmen and military weapon experts, and is now recognized as the fastest, most rugged, and most efficient electronic small arms sighting system in the world.
There are more than 2 million hunters, sports shooting enthusiasts, police and military personnel who use Aimpoint® sights around the world today.
The Originator of the RED Dot Sight
Shooting conditions put unique demands on your equipment and when it comes to accuracy, the first priority is the right sight.
Aimpoint’s breakthrough technology allows a shooter to do what comes naturally — keep both eyes open while focusing on a target. When a shooter looks into an Aimpoint sight, a red dot appears in the lens. The shooter can then quickly superimpose the red dot on the target.
When the red dot is on the target, you’re on target. It is this combination of speed of sighting and accuracy that makes Aimpoint sights the preferred choice for beginners and experts alike.
Aimpoint red dot sights are made without magnification or optical distortion. In a red dot sight, the dot is not projected on to the target, it is only seen inside the sight and only by the shooter. Lasers project the reticule on to the target which makes the dot visible on the target.
The red dot sight uses a LED (light emitting diode) which is completely safe for the eyes comparted to a laser that create a reticle with a laser emission, which can be harmful to your eyes.
Red dot sights are also superior to iron sights and magnifying scopes in several ways. Using these other types of aiming devices require that your focus leaves the target.
The difference between Aimpoint’s red dot sights and other sights is illustrated on the images on this page.
Regardless of where you position your eye, the reflection of the LED is always parallel with the sight’s optical axis, thanks to the design of the double lens and its light refraction property (figure 1). The points of aim and impact always coincide.
Figure 1.
The conventional lens used in the majority of red dot sights gives an angled reflection when the dot is not centered on the lens. The farther the dot from the center of the lens, the greater the deviation from the optical axis. In this case, the point of aim and the point of impact can never be the same (figure 2).
Figure 2.
