{"id":28994,"date":"2026-02-23T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/aimpoints-first-tube-optics-2000-3000-5000\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:00:27","slug":"aimpoints-first-tube-optics-2000-3000-5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/aimpoints-first-tube-optics-2000-3000-5000\/","title":{"rendered":"Aimpoint&#8217;s First Tube Optics: 2000, 3000, &#038; 5000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I786pgkby_I?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aimpoint introduced its first tubular red dot sight in 1985, the Aimpoint 2000. They were still making direct rail-mounted optics like the Aimpoint Electronic, but recognized the customer demand for a sight that could fit into normal scope rings. The 2000 included a number of other innovations, like a light sensor to automatically adjust brightness.<\/p>\n<p>In 1989 the Aimpoint 3000 came out, which streamlined the profile of the optic by using a smaller battery compartment mounted tight tot he tube, and abandoning the automatic light adjustment. This was followed in 1991 by the Aimpoint 5000, which was essentially the same optic in a 30mm tube instead of a 1&#8243; tube. Larger diameter optics were gaining popularity for increased light transmission, and the 5000 followed that trend.<\/p>\n<p>A number of options were offered, especially on the Aimpoint 5000. Different colors were made, a &#8220;Mag Dot&#8221; option for pistol competition offered up to a 15 MOA dot, and even a version with a fixed 2x magnification was made for hunters who thought that would be a good idea (it really wasn&#8217;t). 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The 2000 included a number of other innovations, like a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/aimpoints-first-tube-optics-2000-3000-5000\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aimpoint&#8217;s First Tube Optics: 2000, 3000, &#038; 5000<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}