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Posted: 12/2/2008 2:23:25 PM EDT
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Hello Folks, I just picked up my new Aimpoint C3 and it has a few things I am not so sure about...first off, The Red Dot area has a bunch of individual dots, which I assumed was correct to make the circle, however a couple of them is out of line, two of the dots are stray by about a mm on the glass, and on the retainer ring, on the far-end of the lens has a scratch on it. Would this sound like the unit is a Refurb or does all aimpoint lenses have scratches on their retainer rings? I am a kind of a noob here, but I know enuff about scopes that if its "NEW" it should be close to perfect for the cost of 1x piece of glass ya know?
Thanks again Jim |
| I read the fake aimpoint identifier list, btw very helpful, and mine definitely appears genuine, but again, the red does is definitely not compact....the red elements seem to flare out not from intensity but from being centered.....any suggestions? Thanks again. |
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If it's NEW, it should be pristine. Aimpoint makes a point of the fact that their stuff is made in a clean room environment. As far as the dot goes... do you wear glasses or contacts? Vision correction devices could be causing the scatter you're talking about.
On another note: have you mounted it and shot with it yet? |
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If you look though the scope and see about 4-5 smaller red dots (in a circle) in the center of the scope you could have a stigmatism (irregularly shaped cornea). Do you wear glasses? also you never said where you got this scope. Please post some photos. +1 on the astigmatism. The ar15 community diagnosed mine. Two tests will help: 1. Rotate the site while looking into it. If the irregularities stay the same while rotating it's your eye. If they turn with the rotation, then it's possibly the optic. 2. Take a photo. If the dot is round in the photo then it's your eye. |
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From Aimpoints website:
The dot in my Aimpoint sight doesn't look round. Is it defective? If your dot does not appear to be perfectly round, the distortion is probably caused by the way that your eye perceives the dot, rather than by some mechanical defect. Due to differences in the lenses in different individuals' eyes, round objects that subtend areas near 3 minutes of angle may appear distorted in a variety of ways depending on the individual and other environmental influences. Inexpensive red dot sights sometimes have manufacturing defects that can cause the dot to be an odd shape. A simple test that can be easily performed will allow you to determine the cause of the apparent distortion: * Turn the sight on and look through as you normally would. (This test is easiest when the sight is not mounted on a firearm, but can be performed with the sight mounted as well. Just make sure that the firearm is unloaded and pointed in a safe direction.) * While continuing to look through the sight, roll the sight on its optical axis. * If the dot's irregularities seem to revolve around the center of the dot like the spokes of a wheel, there is a mechanical defect causing the distortion. * If the dot does not roll with the sight, the distortion is caused in the way your eye perceives the dot. This is not to say that you don't have good vision. You can see clearly and still see a distortion in objects this small. This effect is less pronounced in sights with larger dots. More people will see the dot in a sight with a 10 minute-of-angle dot as being perfectly round than will be able to see a 3 MOA dot as round. |
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