Red dot for sks

jjohnwm said:
I posted this on the thread in the stickies awhile back:

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Cheapo barrel-clamp pic rail mount (in this case, actually cobbled together from two such mounts), and a Bushnell red dot although I'm sure you could use just about any brand of mini-sized dot sight. The dot co-witnesses with the sights. Earlier this week I put about 200 rounds through this rifle and the dot sight is rock solid.

I've tried the MagWedge, the rear receiver cover type, a couple of the ones that replace the rear sight, even one of the gas-tube mounts. Didn't like any of them. This set up is the best by far, IMHO. Cheap, fast and easy to install, doesn't interfere with cleaning at all, leaves your rear sight in place, no mods to the gun at all.
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This made my head hurt..


conor_90 said:
They are yes, I am saying that holosun sights for the same price +/- 30 bucks are the kings of the chinesium heap

Like jjohnwm says, the sks doesn't deserve any better. I don't own one but if I did it would wear its #### tier irons and love it.
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Meh, they’re just a couple of fun guns for people to play with when I take them to the range. I got 2x bushnells for $200 I’ve also got one of those riton ones frontier had for cheap on the way too.. Sks seems to turn a non gun person into a gun person pretty quick lmao.
 
Suther said:
You don't find the optic is too far forward there? I can't help but feel like between the optic housing and the front sight you won't see much in the way of a target behind that?
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It might be a problem if you close your off eye; I wish I had thought to try that, but I always shoot with both eyes open regardless of the sighting equipment in use. Shooting that way, it's easy to "not see" all the extraneous hardware and just concentrate on the target and the red dot. I generally prefer my red dots situated as far forward on the gun as I can get them.

Some of the earliest red dot sights had no front opening at all; just a closed tube with a red dot, and the dominant eye saw nothing but a black field and a red dot. The off eye saw the target and the brain superimposed the two; they called it the Bindon aiming system. Nowadays we can see the target through the sight, but the principle is the same. Both eyes now see the target...the brain ignores the hardware...only the dominant eye sees the red dot...and the brain puts it all together into a sighting picture.
 
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