Originally Posted by
SwampfoxMike
1. The Kingslayer generation emitter can do a ring type reticle, but battery life will suck. The high efficiency emitters that give us improved battery life are only available in 3 MOA red, for now. As I wrote above I hope that changes. Maybe Holosun will sell us some of their 8 MOA ring emitters? (LOL no)
I'm not the worlds best pistol dot shooter but I'm very curious as to why people prefer the ring reticle. For the kind of pistol shooting I do, unless I'm sighting in from a bench rest, the reticle is never still enough for me to perceive the the target inside the "hole" in the ring. Maybe other shooters can hold more still than I do, but I basically never even see a crisp dot either, it's constantly wiggling and jiggling around, I think of it as a "paint brush". At the level of shooter I am, the game is to break my shot when the paint brush paints the part of the target that I want to hit within an acceptable margin of error. As distance increases the acceptable window gets smaller, so I have to shoot more slowly. Up close the acceptable window is larger, so I can shoot more quickly. Very very close I am basically point shooting with muscle memory and the sight picture becomes essentially a happy confirmation that everything else in this string of fire is going correctly. All of this is true whether I'm shooting drills in a class, shooting in competition, or (hopefully) shooting to save the day when ISIS attacks the local IHOP or whatever Walter Mitty CCW fantasy I want to make a scenario about. There's really no situation I can think of where, at my shooting level, I would hold the pistol still enough to perceive anything meaningful inside that ring, even taking shots at 50 yards (which I do practice). So for me the ring basically becomes a giant 8 MOA jiggly paintbrush and essentially I have all the disadvantages of an 8 MOA dot at that point. That's why I "don't get it" on this, but I am very much willing to listen to other shooters on what I'm missing out on.