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Aimpoint Launches New Optical Filters For Electronic Sights

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Chantilly, VA - -(ShootingWire.com)- Aimpoint announces the introduction of two new optical filters designed to fit the company’s popular 30mm electronic sight products. These new filters enhance the performance of Aimpoint red-dot sights by reducing solar reflection and glare on sunny days, and increasing optical contrast in poor light. Both of these new filters will fit all new and existing full-size Aimpoint sights including the 9000 series, all Comp series sights and all generations of the US Military’s M68 Close Combat Optic also manufactured by Aimpoint. These filters may be mounted and removed instantly without the use of tools, and are extremely small and lightweight.

Aimpoint Polarized Filter
Sunlight reflecting off of automotive windshields and glazed windows can obscure a threat by overpowering the human eye s ability to filter solar energy. Aimpoint s new Polarization Filter helps to reduce reflection and glare, allowing police and military users to identify who or what stands behind the glass. This product consists of a high-quality polarized lens mounted in a threaded soft plastic housing. The filter mounts quickly by hand in the rear lens opening of Aimpoint sights. The user can rotate the filter housing to engage the polarization feature of the

lens to cut through glare, or return it to non-polarized mode quickly and without the use of tools. By reducing the amount of reflected sunlight, the filter allows the user to see whether the personnel behind the glass represent a threat or not. While this may seem like a very small development, the utilization of these filters by police and military will save lives said Aimpoint Vice President Brian Lisankie. Military and law enforcement personnel are required to act quickly and decisively under a variety of conditions. Using one of these filters can allow the operator to determine whether a car approaching a road block contains an identifiable threat or appears harmless.

This inexpensive yet effective tool can help to prevent a needless tragedy, while also allowing identification a true threat earlier than possible with the naked eye. This filter is also ideal for sportsmen while hunting in bright sunlight, and the level of polarization can be changed quickly and easily to adapt to changes in conditions in the field.

Aimpoint Yellow Filter
A yellow colored lens enhances visual contrast, and allows the human eye to locate and define a target better.

This is especially true in poor light conditions caused by insufficient sunlight at dawn and dusk, or on cloudy or hazy days. Aimpoint s high-contrast Yellow Filter enhances visual definition, and increases the effectiveness of the red-dot sight when the lack of good light makes target identification difficult. The Aimpoint Yellow Filter consists of a high quality lens mounted in a threaded soft plastic housing that fits into the rear lens opening on any 30mm Aimpoint sight. Small enough to fit comfortably in a shirt pocket the Yellow Filter can be installed or removed immediately without the use of tools. Yellow shooting glasses have been available for many years, but it is not always feasible to carry multiple pairs of glasses said Aimpoint Vice President Brian Lisankie. Sport shooters firing at targets on hazy days and hunters searching for that elusive trophy at first light or at dusk all need the extra optical definition that the Aimpoint Yellow Filter offers. The extra performance capabilities created by this new product just increase the number of reasons why Aimpoint sights are the choice of serious sportsmen and women worldwide .

Product Introduction at 2009 SHOT Show

Aimpoint will publicly launch these new optical filter products at the 2009 Shooting Hunting & Outdoor Trade

(SHOT) Show which will be held on January 15-18 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The products will be displayed at the Aimpoint booths #661 in the General Hunting & Shooting section, and #9369 in the Law Enforcement section.

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Aimpoint is the recognized worldwide leader and originator of the red dot sighting technology. After more than 30 years of working closely with military weapon systems experts, experienced hunters and marksmen around the world, Aimpoint red dot sights remain the No. 1 choice for combining speed and accuracy.

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Nightforce Announces First Focal Plane Scope Designed For Tactical And Military Shooters

Nightforce Announces First Focal Plane Scope Designed For Tactical And Military Shooters

Nightforce Optics

Nightforce - -(AmmoLand.com)- Introduced a new riflescope, made in the U.S.A., built with a reticle in the first focal plane. The NXS 3.5-15×50 F1 was created at the request of U.S. military and other professional sharpshooters for a scope that is extremely fast, applicable to a wide range of targets at various distances, and offering a choice of elevation/windage click values, reticles and ballistic turrets with Nightforce ZeroStop technology.

A reticle located in the first focal plane appears to change size with adjustments in magnification, but in fact it remains in the exact same ratio to the target across the scope’s entire magnification range. The first focal plane location is especially appropriate for use with rangefinding reticles, since the reticle’s markings remain consistent relative to target size at all magnification settings. This has distinct advantages in high-stress situations, and when the user can expect to encounter targets at varying distances from close-in to hundreds of yards away.  This design, coupled with the highly tactile and intuitive adjustments common to Nightforce products, makes for a scope that provides extremely rapid target acquisition.

The Nightforce F1 is offered with a choice of three different windage/elevation adjustments: .250 MOA, .1 Mil Radian, or 1.0 MOA elevation/.5 MOA windage.  There are two optional engraved ballistic turret caps offered (available separately); one for the 1.0/.5 MOA version specifically marked for the A-191 (.300 Win. Mag./190 gr. Sierra Match King), or for the M118LR (.308/175 gr. Sierra Match King), marked in meters.  The standard cap comes with an MOA scale, which the user can have custom engraved to match virtually any caliber once that caliber’s ballistics are established.

Nightforce patented ZeroStop technology is standard on all F1 elevation turrets, which allows the shooter to set the zero point of his or her choice, then return instantly, by feel, to their chosen zero regardless of how much elevation adjustment has been made.

The NXS 3.5-15 x 50 F1 is currently available with Nightforce Mil-Dot or MLR reticles, both created for tactical and military use.  More reticle choices will be introduced in 2009, including the Nightforce NP-R1, Horus, ART, and several that Nightforce are designing specifically for F1/first focal plane configurations.  F1 technology will also be offered in other Nightforce scopes in the months to come.  The F1 ships with a set of Nightforce Ultralight rings included.

For more information contact Nightforce Optics, Inc., 1040 Hazen Lane, Orofino, ID 83544, tel (208) 476-9814, or visit www.nightforceoptics.com. You can visit Nightforce at booth number 9381 at the 2009 SHOT Show.

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