The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

It maintains zero as it never needs to be removed, and the iron sights can still be used. It costs about $20, and it does not alter the rifle.

Everyone but me hates it.

Interesting, I can never see the red dots on the paper unless I am standing two feet away from it. I find that I miss the paper far less often when I stand that close to it

The dot is never on the paper, it's just an optical illusion known as Peppers Ghost.

It works well with some other rifles too.

Pureblood wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2024 8:10 pm The dot is never on the paper, it's just an optical illusion known as Peppers Ghost.

I didn't know that, never had any sort of electronic sight on anything before. Have glass on a few rifles, the inevitable EMP blast shouldn't render them inoperable. In your case you will still be able to use the iron sights if that happens, so whoever designed that had some brains.

Junk Yard Dog wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2024 2:00 am

Pureblood wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2024 8:10 pm The dot is never on the paper, it's just an optical illusion known as Peppers Ghost.

I didn't know that, never had any sort of electronic sight on anything before. Have glass on a few rifles, the inevitable EMP blast shouldn't render them inoperable. In your case you will still be able to use the iron sights if that happens, so whoever designed that had some brains.

"Pepper's ghost is an illusion technique, used in the theatre, cinema, amusement parks, museums, television, and concerts, in which an image of an object off-stage is projected so that it appears to be in front of the audience.[1]"

The technique is named after the English scientist John Henry Pepper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

Red dot sights have been around for a long time, they were used to good effect as gunsights for Spitfires and Hurricanes during WW2.

This is interesting...