What optics available for Retro carry handle A1 type AR's?

[DMark]

wow, I didn't know the singlepoints are still around.....

No longer made, but they pop up on GunBroker and often for under $100.

Its the orginal mounts that are a B---H to find!

[usmcvet]

wow. Blast from the past. I had a buddy who had one of these in the Gulf. I forgot all about it. Worked pretty slick too.

[jtb0311]

You might also consider a carry handle rail mount and an old Aimpoint MkIII, 1000, 2000, or 3000.

[peabody]

As Dano mentioned, if you want truly old school, the Armson is it.

Still available apparently.....

http://www.armsonusa.com/armsonoegm16.html

does anyone on here have one of these ? interesting.

just exactly how does it work ?

[usmcvet]

does anyone on here have one of these ? interesting.

just exactly how does it work ?

You need to keep both eyes open. If I remember right you can not see through the scope all you will see is the dot and the dot will be superimposed on whatever your looking at with the other eye. Works well but you loose what you’d see with the second eye if you had an Aimpoint or Eotech.

[SoDak]

If your gonna go retro, go all the way.

The original RDS, Armson OEG.

I swam, jumped, flogged, the crap out of one in the early 90's (pre aimpoint), & made a bunch of iron sight dinosaurs look silly on movers & night shoots.

Was the Armson OEG pretty much restricted to being a close range optic? I kind of want one for my A1 rifle, but I wasn't sure if it was a good fit, say versus a magnified scope.

[LonghunterCO]

I have a OEG (now with depleated tritium (sp?)) still one of my favorites. Contacted Armson last year and they are looking into re-loading them.

[Armati]

For real old school the Armson OEG is the quintessential CAR type optic.

During the late 80's, in a little, barely spoken of 'action' in Latin America, the Trijicon RX06-10 was quite popular. The carrying handle ACOG's started to show up in the field around the early 90's.

[Buck]

There is also the older Mepro 21 that the IDF put on everything, including their M16A1 carbines in a see through carry handle mount...

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[DMark]

.... During the late 80's, in a little, barely spoken of 'action' in Latin America....

One of my AFEMs is for one of those "actions."



Getting back on topic. I recall some folks using carrying handle optics in those ops, but I can't remember what type - - - or who "they" were. Then again this was during the era when we didn't know what a "tac-cool operator" has. Alot of guys were still running with gear that worked for them in the RVN and didn't trust anything but iron sights.