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Empirically Choosing Optic Color
I need some advice before I go down a very deep rabbit hole...What is the best (read: cheapest) way to empirically choose an optic color?
So I've been shooting dots on and off since 2020. All of them (2x507c, 1x507k, 2x407k, 1xEPS Carry MRS) have had red dots. I based this on a simple experiment with fiber optic rods taped to a slide a few years ago. My perception was I "saw" red better.
I am in the middle of selling my EPS Carry MRS red because after six months of playing with dot, circle, and dot/circle, I am ready to go back to a single MOA optic, either the EPS Carry 6 MOA or 407k. But before I order one, it occurred to me I could maybe try green this time.
While I am ok ordering green, and giving it a shot over a few months, I'd rather not spend the money then take the loss on ANOTHER transition in six months, back to red.
So what I am currently pondering is getting another set of fiber rods in various colors, and then, in turn, taping them to the slide of my P365 X Macro Frankengun. One thing led to another and I sketched out an approach to use the data from my Dry Practice Program logbook, in an empirical study. What I'd do is pick a set of drills (maybe the Gabe White Performance Tests) I have records on and know my performance, then use both colors over the course of a few weeks, to see how my performance varied with color?
Bear with me, as it's just an illustrative spreadsheet at this point that I didn't put much time in, but you can see how wrapped around the axle I can get:
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(all the data is fake, except for the actual test Dry Times; that's what I had in my log book during the last serious amount of work I was doing with my G34+507c, aiming for Light Pin times, but was a while ago.)
Am I nuts? Is this really a lot more simple, as in, just get the green optic Rich and try it out, and stop making a mountain out of a molehill? Or is there some value in objectively evaluating the selection of color in personal performance to optimize color choice?