Air Rifle Sights

My wife and I have started shooting co2 powered rifles with the adult kids on the week-end. I am 66 and wife is (good husband doesn't tell) and both wear glasses. We have a hard time seeing the open sights. Even though the gun has fiber optic front sight it gets kind of fuzzy to us making perfect alignment challenging. I been looking at the Crosman and Daisy red dot reflex sights. Both are around $15 The daisy has adjustment screws that are somewhat hidden and must be set with a screwdriver. The Crosman has adjustment that are showing and can be set with fingers. The reviews say the Crosman tends to be easy to bump and move the adjustment. Some said to glue it in place after you get it set. Be hard to adjust for windage if glued but who worries about windage on a co2 air rifle at 30 yards or less? I can't find any reviews on the Daisy sight.
Any insight on these sights? I don't want to break the bank buying reflex sights. Would I be better with a $30 sight? The co2 gun has no kick to it so I don't need a sight that is for a high powered rifle or breakbarrel gun.
We been shooting at paper targets ( political ads for people running for offices) and a 3 place swinging target. I also cut up some sidewalk chalk to shoot but haven't been very lucky hitting that so far!!
Any help on sights and plinking targets would be helpful.

 

The sights available will depend on what you have for a mount. Do you have a Picatinny rail or similar mount or is it just a 1/2" dovetail?

There are plenty of inexpensive red dots out there for firearms that would likley be just fine for air rifles.

 

I've never used optics in that price category but I have used red dots and one might be an improvement over iron sights. It certainly is a lot easier to see. Unfortunately I was never very accurate with red dots where head position affects the aim point. With the gun held fixed in a mount the red dot will move across the target area as you move your head.

If you can afford it holographic sights are the cat's meow. They are the high tech cousin of red dots but instead use a laser so the image seems to float out in front of you in space. With a gun held in a fixed mount you can move your head around and the red dot magically floats around to stay on the aim point regardless of where your head is positioned. I have only used Eotech which are several hundred dollars. Nobody ever said good was cheap.

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A CO2 gun and compressed air guns don't have much recoil so you can use almost any sight you want. If you ever get a spring operated air rifle, the type where you **** a lever once, their type of recoil can be hard on optics.

Without CO2 or high pressure air spring rifles can be less expensive to shoot and very quick to **** and load for the next shot. The pellet is the only consumable or expense. The downside is they can be louder and the recoil is hard on optics. You can feel a kick or vibration but it's nothing of concern at all for your shoulder. I think the recoil is one hard shock (high G but very brief) as the spring slams to a stop that shakes the gun but doesn't actually push it back into your shoulder. The recoil doesn't hurt at all but it can be brutal on optics not designed for it.

 

Tolyn I have 2 Crosman 1077 and it has a 3/8" dovetail. Pilot Dane I will look to see if the head position matters with the cheaper sights. I wouldn't mind going up to $30 for a good sight but any more than that would be overboard. We only shoot one day a month and during the warm months. Then rifles were only $110 each so a sight costing half or more would sure be wasteful . I do remember seeing some had holographic but I looked at so many I can't remember which ones.