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Brownells to Distribute the Shield CQS and SIS Red Sights in the United States

Saturday, January 16th, 2016

  

Dorset, England — January 14, 2016 – Shield Sights announced today that Brownells has included the Shield CQS and SIS Red Dot Sights for US distribution. The Shield Sights products are available immediately and will be featured at SHOT Show in Las Vegas.

“This is a positive step forward for our International sales and more importantly Shield supporting the US shooting industry” said James White, marketing director at Shield. “This is a testament to the quality and functionality of the Shield product line.”

The CQS and SIS Red Dot Sights have been created with the military standards that were requested and recognized by the UK MOD and proven in our CQB model. These robust features along with many added features are now available in CQS and SIS Red Dot Sights and made available to every shooter in the US.

“Shield Sights prides themselves on innovation and will continue to bring new products to market like the Shield CQS and Red Dot Sights,” said James White. “With these innovations, we feel confident that our partners at Brownells will continue to add us to their product line throughout 2016.”

Shield Sights has been at the fore front of Red Dot design and functionality for the past 20 years and the SIS is the latest product offering. The SIS has been designed by listening to customers and gaining real-world application feedback from Special Forces, Law Enforcement, Competition shooters, and Military users across the world. The SIS features including 3 x Automatic brightness levels, 12 x manual levels and 4 Reticule options.

The SIS and CQS both come packaged with a variable triple height polymer picatinny mount allowing the user to determine the most comfortable height set-up.

Shield Sights can be purchased at Brownells.

For more information on Shield Sights please visit – www.shieldsights.com

Shield Close Quarter Battlesight (CQB)

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

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The Close Quarter Battlesight (CQB) from UK producer Shield is a nonmagnified (1x) Mini Red Dot Sight. It is offered in 3 different red dot sizes:
1 MOA + 65 MOA ring
4 MOA dot
8 MOA dot (NSN 1240-99-555-2800)

It features variable intensity settings that at the low end can be seen with night vision devices and on the high end make the dot discernible in full day light. Battery life is from 1 to 3 years depending on the setting.

Shield has supplied over 20,000 of these CQBs to the British Army since starting production in 2010. The Shield CQB is subject to UK Export Control. Interestingly, it was developed from the Mini Sight which is NOT Export Controlled.

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Here you can see the Shield CQB mounted to a 4 x 32 Browe Combat Optic.

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