Patent ID: 7522356

Claim:
A telescopic sight, comprising: at least one lens for providing magnification, wherein the at least one lens has a lens through-thickness direction and two orthogonal transverse directions perpendicular to the lens through-thickness direction, wherein a lens first transverse dimension measured along a lens first transverse direction is greater than a lens second transverse dimension measured along a lens second transverse direction, and wherein the at least one lens is optically circularly symmetric about a lens central axis parallel to the lens through-thickness direction, but physically truncated along the lens second transverse direction; and a sight housing in which the at least one lens is received, wherein the sight housing has a sight length direction parallel to the lens through-thickness direction, a sight first transverse direction parallel to the lens first transverse direction, and a sight second transverse direction parallel to the lens second transverse direction, and wherein a sight first transverse dimension measured along the sight first transverse direction is greater than a sight second transverse dimension measured along the sight second transverse direction.