This is not personal, so please don’t take it that way, but...I am not a fan of laser sights. I believe that, for the most part, laser sights are a great feature to show a customer when someone is selling them a gun. The reality is that all the laser sights, red dots, tritium, gps homing bullets, or other fancy gizmos won’t do you any good if you can’t control the trigger. If you master the trigger, the rest of that stuff will lose it’s value to you. Control that trigger and you will win that gunfight. No gizomos needed.
Makes good sense...Thank you
I like to use a laser when I’m doing dry-fire practice. It really shows you where you make the gun move. But, when the bullets go in, the laser comes off.
Lasers and red dots are, for training, sort of a modern version of an old technique of Ed McGivern’s (probably the most proficient revolver shooter of all time) in the 30’s. He suggested putting a dot of red paint on a mirror, lining up the muzzle of the revolver on it, and dry firing at increasing speed until you were steady.
Given he put 5 shots in a playing card at 15 feet in 2/5 of a second out of a S&W .38 revolver in 1934 he might have a point.
I could not disagree any more. Which just goes to show how much personal preference has to do with this subject.
I used to think like you about laser sights, but my thinking turned around 180 degrees when I actually started using them. I think they are particularly helpful for the older person whose reaction time and vision isn’t like that of a 20 year old.