LASER

[the duck of death]

US APPENDIX 6 US OPEN DIVISION:

13--------Optical/electronic sights permitted-------yes

Does this include laser sights? They aren't optical but they sure are electronic.

e·lec·tron·ic

adjective 1. of or pertaining to electronics or to devices, circuits, or systems developed through electronics.

Is the / used as a and/or?

Or are they saying the optical sights may be electronic?

Edited April 24, 2008 by the duck of death

[racerba]

Why would you want to use laser? You can't see it in bright sunlight.

[Chuck Anderson]

Yes you can use a laser sight in Open division. I don't know of anyone that does because the the dot on top of the gun is a lot easier to find than the dot 25 yds away. I seem to remember there was talk about using both, on for example a low light stage. Don't remember for sure the result but I think it was whatever was on the gun at the start of the match had to stay on the gun. They used the same rule to say no lights on guns except in Open Division.

[mpolans]

Yes, but I can't think of a reason why you would want one.

[open17]

I side mounted a Beamshot laser on my Open gun and sighted it to the same point as my

Docter dot at 25 yds. Used it for night/low light matches. Worked great---on the short

stages I found myself just looking over the top of the gun and using only the laser.

Would be pretty much worthless for a daylight target, and probably quite a bit slower

than a regular dot sight.

Bill

[the duck of death]

Thanks for the info. By the way, didn't say I wanted one all I ask is are they legal. Thanks again.

Edited April 25, 2008 by the duck of death

[jhgtyre]

We had a few shooters use them for our local steel match which goes until well after dark. It was kind of interesting to watch them and see how sometimes they overswung on transititions, wobbled and just in general jerked and twitched while shooting. I don't think I would use one in a match but I could see how they would make intersting training aids.

-ld