Topic: New optic tech out of the INL

[9Shooter]

This could be a pretty significant improvement for BUIS.  A lens that would allow you to have the target and front sight in focus at the same time.  Read the whole thing at INL:

Go down to the rifle range and fire a few rounds at a target 100 meters out. Chances are you won't hit the bull's-eye. Even if you read the wind right and don't twitch as you're squeezing the trigger, you may well fall at the first hurdle: lining up the shot.

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The unaided eye can focus either on the target (left) or the gun's iron sight (center). The MicroSight lets it do both (right), giving marksmen a better shot at their quarry.

Aiming a weapon is harder than it looks. Shooters need clear views of a distant object (the target) and a near one (the iron sight at the end of the rifle barrel) at the same time. But the eye can't quite pull this off, as a simple experiment shows: Point at a faraway house or storefront, then try to bring both your finger and the building into focus. One or the other will be blurry.
 
Idaho National Laboratory's innovative gunsight technology, the MicroSight, helps the eye solve this problem. The MicroSight, a disc smaller than a dime, brings both the target and the iron sight into simultaneous focus, giving marksmen a better sight picture. The new sight has national-security applications, as it could improve safety and performance for American soldiers. Millions of target shooters and hunters should also benefit.  

"The MicroSight gives you much of the performance you'd get out of a holographic or telescopic sight," says INL engineer David Crandall, who developed the technology. "But it's more reliable, much lighter-weight and much cheaper."

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The alternating rings on zone plates bring faraway and nearby objects into focus simultaneously.

[AR10ER]

That would be nice, but we know it will cost plenty for awhile after it come out.

[birddog1989]

The engineer that developed it said it is "much cheaper" than current optics.

More info here.
https://inlportal.inl.gov/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1269&mode=2&featurestory=DA_549448

[TrooperBrian]

Once again, another superior firearms product, from right here in Idaho.

[fj40mojo]

Them there Idaho shooters is purdy smart!

All kidding aside, I'd buy one!

[Orbital-Burn]

I read about this a couple weeks ago.

Wonder how long until the olympics approve this for use....

good to see stuff like this come from where I work

[Grumblecakes]

not sure if this should be a reply or a new thread:

has anyone used once of these yet?

[redmist]

I could most likley get my hands on one...

He has had it around for years now.