Patent ID: 6357158
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: F41G,G02B

Abstract:
In a telescopic gunsight having an optical system comprised of a forward objective lens element, a rear eyepiece lens element and intervening erector lens element, said elements being aligned upon an optical axis constituting a line of sight and protectively confined within an elongated tubular housing adapted to be securely affixed to a rifle, the improvement comprising the addition into said optical system between said objective and erector lens elements of a transparent reticle having distance-measuring and aiming indicia, said indicia comprising orthogonally intersecting center vertical and center horizontal straight hairlines, said center vertical and center horizontal hairlines having radially distal portions which are widened so as to form posts having radially directed innermost and outermost extremities, and four straight horizontal range-marker hairlines of sequentially incremental length disposed below said center horizontal hairline in vertically bisected relationship with said center vertical hairline.