Toni System is an Italian company and this is their two-piece AR15 aiming system intended for competition shooting.
Using sight ribs like on a shotgun, they mount a 1.0mm fiber optic sight to one for long range shooting, while the other incorporates a 1.5mm fiber for short range shooting. They are offset at 45 degrees. Cant the rifle to acquire the sight picture desired.
www.tonisystem.it/it/rifle/ar15
This post was inspired by Frank Woods. I have it on good authority he uses it.
Okay. That looks like a solution looking for a problem.
To be honest, it looks like a problem looking for a problem.
They got the tooling for competition shotgun ribs so why not press e to extrude the picatinny rail mount lol. I’d rather a gutter snipe system personally if we was going for ridiculous iron sight systems.
Are they not allowed to use red-dots in Europe? I defer to Nick and a ditto of his comment. 🙂
It’s actually untrue, Frank doesn’t use these sights. I just wanted to wind him up.
My pal 😀
Fixed the link for ya for those who don’t speak italian:
https://www.tonisystem.it/en/rifle/m4-m16/
Reminds me of Colt’s ACR Rifle candidate, which featured a raised ‘vent rib’ along the top of the handguard to serve as a CQB point shooting sight.
“The main differences of the Colt ACR and the M16A2 is the distinctive furniture. The handguard included a heat-resistant inner lining, vent holes for lightening and air cooling with a thickened ring around the front end to act as a handstop. This was topped with an elevated sight track rib with a white stripe to improve fast target acquisition.”
I’d forgotten about that. Wonder if there is any data on how well it worked, in comparison to other sighting methods? On the face of it, it doesn’t sound entirely unreasonable.
Sadly, I’ve never seen any of the ACR trials data published. Which is a shame as between the next gen weapons and the custom target range they built to test them, I’m sure its full of fascinating data.
For the the Colt ACR, I don’t see how the vent rib would have been visible at all; all the photos show a 3.5x ELCAN mounted directly in front of the vent rib.
But the idea of a vent rib is sound; would probably be superior to conventional irons on a controllable FA weapon inside 50 yards against moving targets. In hindsight, kinda surprised we never saw a Vent Rib Thompson or other SMG.
Back to the Colt ACR.
I suspect these sight systems were designed specifically for the Standard Divisions of IPSC Rifle Competition where the use of electronic or optical sights is prohibited. In those competitions I think using two different iron sights with separate zeroes is slowly becoming more common, both for shooting from compromised positions and to transition from close range to long range targets.