Why You Need an Optical Sight
Aiming with open sights requires the shooter to see clearly and precisely align three objects that are actually at different distances from the eye: the rear sight, the front sight, and the target. It requires skill, experience, and excellent eyesight to correctly perform such a sighting. In modern conditions, it is rather difficult to have all three components available, especially vision because nowadays, there are too many factors reducing it, not to mention age, which also contributes to decreasing in shooter’s sight characteristics. Open sights also disorient the shooter, because he can see only one thing, either the target or the sights. If you move the rear sight or the front sight just a bit relative to the target and … the bullet flies in the wrong direction. Fortunately, now you can buy high-quality scopes for best paintball guns or other firearms.
But over 150 years ago, optical sight came to the aid of shooters. This tool gave him a “long-arm” and power over the distance.…
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