Warning

 

Close
Confirm Action

Are you sure you wish to do this?

Cancel Confirm
AR15.COM
AR Sponsor
7/25/2006 9:21:13 AM EDT
When veiwing the reticule of my Aimpoint, I see more than one dot.

At first I thought my eyes were fooling me, so I had my brother look through it as well, without telling him what to find, and he saw it as well. The other dots are fainter and smaller, but here is the thing- At one point, there was a dot on the right of the real dot, now, there is no dot on the right, but there is a dot to the left, upper left, and one on top, slightly to the right.

That's 3 extra dots.

All of them are very close to the reticule, just far enough away that the edges never overlap on the dots. This is very visible on higher settings (The two brightest) but can be seen faintly on lower settings as well.

This is not distortion of the dot due to brightness.


I only assume that somehow my Aimpoint has been breached and there is something on the emitter.

The sight is  a CompMl2 and has never seen tough use.
7/25/2006 9:28:56 AM EDT
[#1]
Well now you can easily engage multiple targets at one time!  

Seriously, if you or your brother do not have vision problems I would email Aimpoint with the problem.
7/25/2006 9:31:01 AM EDT
[#2]

Quoted:
Well now you can easily engage multiple targets at one time!  

Seriously, if you or your brother do not have vision problems I would email Aimpoint with the problem.

I don't have any, but he has astigmatism (sp). But he is very familiar with the sight, I sort of "found" this for him, while looking through it.
7/25/2006 10:50:16 AM EDT
[#3]
Without looking at the sight it is hard to say what the cause may be, I agree with QUIB on emailing Aimpoint and see what they say, the most likely responce will be that it is how your eyes are percieving the dot, if so and you really feel like there is a problem with the sight keep hounding them until they correct it. You might also have a couple more people look through the sight to verify the problem.
7/25/2006 1:34:09 PM EDT
[#4]
If you are seeing extra dots while viewing against a wall 10 feet away it's normal for people with bad eyes.

If you see multiple dots on a down range target then the scope may be at fault.

Conditions are everything.
7/25/2006 1:43:55 PM EDT
[#5]
I contacted aimpoint, the operator told me to rotate the gun, then see if the dots rotate, they don't, therefore the operator said it was my vision not the aimpoint. It's fixed now, but such dismisive customer support bothered me.
7/25/2006 10:22:42 PM EDT
[#6]

Quoted:
I contacted aimpoint, the operator told me to rotate the gun, then see if the dots rotate, they don't, therefore the operator said it was my vision not the aimpoint. It's fixed now, but such dismisive customer support bothered me.


That's not dismissive, that's correct.  He diagnosed the problem and saved you the time of sending it in for no reason.  How is that dismissive?
AR Sponsor