Cheap and Simple Red Dot Finder Mount

I had been looking for a simple solution for adding a couple of Daisy Red Finders to some of our club scopes to make them a little more beginner friendly.

I gave it some thought and came up with the following:

First "The Kit"

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As you can see, pretty simple - a couple of binder clips, two 3" number 10 stove bolts some matching nuts and lock washers and a small block of metal known as a "machine key" - all available at a decently stocked hardware store.

To put the mount together, you first start by drilling 2 holes in both binder clips along the top side - evenly spaced, down the center line, just large enough for the bolt to slip through.

Now take your stove bolts and a nut for each, thread the nut all the way to the head and then squeeze open the binder clip and insert the bolt through the hole.

Now take a lock washer and another nut and run those down the bolt and tighten firmly against the binder clip.

With another nut for each bolt, thread it down just far enough to allow the end of the bold to pass through the other binder clip and have enough bolt exposed to start another nut. Add that nut and tighten them tightly against both sides of the binder clip.

Now we take the Daisy sight and remove the two screws that attach the dovetail clamp to the unit and remove them- we will not be using them.

Now you can attach Daisy sight by squeezing the binder clip and sliding the bottom portion of the sight into the clamp.

Sorry, lots of words - it should now look something like this:

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