Red dot vs iron sight gun

[Bucky]

Alright. 5 MOA or 2.5 MOA on an SRO?

ETA: Feel free to delete this comment in hindsight. I don’t want to clutter this thread up.

I have a 5 and I love it!

I’ve been a dot shooter now for 29 years. Early dots were 10 min (PDP3) and 8 (CMore), both of which I still have and they still work. The CMore (open gun) is still used regularly. Point is, I may be more accustomed to a bigger dot.

[BWT]

I have a 5 and I love it!

I’ve been a dot shooter now for 29 years. Early dots were 10 min (PDP3) and 8 (CMore), both of which I still have and they still work. The CMore (open gun) is still used regularly. Point is, I may be more accustomed to a bigger dot.

Not trying to hijack the thread further. But that’s really helpful. I was thinking about it some more and (ETA: rifle shooters) used to give out 4 MOA Aimpoints and use them on rifles zero’d at 100 yards. I kind of was waffling between the 2.5 or 5 MOA, but I think I’m going 5 MOA and that should be precise enough for the longer distances as well.

I outfitted my EDC Glock 34 with an X300U, waiting on a holster I bought this week, but I like the Sevigny, CHWPS plate, and SRO. But I was kind of debating the SRO model. That’s a significant expense. But, I think I’ve found the way I want to get an RDS on a pistol.

[JCN]

Gamer 5MOA SRO for me too.

I have carry guns with smaller and larger dots.

If the dot is bright enough, anything will work.

When trying to do something smaller than the black of a B8 at 25 yards, smaller might be better.

But B8 black at 25 is just about perfect with a 5MOA SRO / 6MOA R3M.

No fail test:



If I were trying to aim at a small target less than 4 inches at >25 yards without bordering context (say like a stand-alone Coke can) I might wish I had a smaller dot, but that’s getting down to something not likely to be needed in a self defense situation.

There is a minor improvement close up with a big dot at fast recoil and transition speed so that your brain clearly can pick out the dot over reflection artifact and sun angles.

[GJM]

My wife’s match video from today.

[JCN]

My wife’s match video from today.

Did she get a reshoot on the classifier?

[GJM]

Did she get a reshoot on the classifier?

She reshot it, but not for match score or placement.

[JCN]

She reshot it, but not for match score or placement.

She is amazingly precise in her transitions.

She seems like a badass.

[GJM]

At our match today, they had a number of stages from the LoCap Nationals. My wife had a very strong match.

[Archer1440]

She is amazingly precise in her transitions.

She seems like a badass.

If I recall correctly, she crushed me, her husband, and ~220 other shooters, outright, with a winning margin of something like nine points over the second place shooter, at the Gunsite Alumni Shoot a couple years ago.

So, yes. Certified BA, if I may be so impolite as to mention.

[GJM]

My wife's match video from yesterday.