I’ve recently been switching back and forth between RDS and iron sights. My carry gun, a PX4cc has a red dot on it, and my beretta 92 doesn’t. I’ve been putting rounds through a range rental sig M11 too, and strangely enough have *mostly* been shooting it better than my LTT 92 centurion. After a grip swap and a sight swap (thicker grips and a WC les pep rear/ameriglo front sight) I’m shooting the 92 pretty well, which is nice.
Anyway, what I’ve been noticing is that when swapping back and forth between RDS and irons, I’m treating the amount of sight movement I’m getting with irons the same as with the red dot, which has resulted in less than stellar accuracy at 25 yards and even at 10-15 yards. I shoot target focused, and it seems like superimposing the orange ring on the front sight over the target (as I would with a dot) negatively effects my accuracy because I end up neglecting the front sights alignment within the rear sight. The 3 dot sights on the M11 seem to allow me to superimpose both the front and rear sights over the target and let me maintain the relationship between front and rear sights a little better.
This realization holds true out to 15 or so yards, but I just don’t shoot as well with irons as with a dot at 25 yards. The drill this difference was most apparent on was Claude Werners version of the 5 hat 5 oddly enough, it was easiest to read sight alignment with the red dot followed by the the 3 dot setup on the M11.
Granted, I may just shoot the M11 better than the beretta, but sights have to have something to do with that, right?