This week, I have been mostly shooting a Canik Rival with iron sights. Those skills sure are perishable and I am trying to knock some of the rust off.
Mid practice today, I grabbed an optic Rival, and shot some. My first impression was the dot is ALL over the place. Clearly, what had happened, is without the feedback of the dot, I had stopped gripping the Rival with iron sights as hard as I should. Started gripping hard again with my support hand, and the dot quieted right down. As I have said before, a red dot is like having a full time coach watching every shot fired.