Posted on 04/03/2023 3:47:05 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
Innovative new gunsight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf9VJ6FOUoo
Stick with 3-dot night sights... which is how most who use Glocks for work will do.
Anything you have to look or peep through just makes you slower - including glass/red dots.
lol @ my grammar.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion. Dots speed you way up, even with zero experience or training. All serious competition shooters run some kind of dot
Okay people in shooting sports - but almost ZERO people who actually work in hostile environments use glass on pistols... just rifles.
Slow and heavy - especially on your first shot. Also another possible fail point. Especially at night.
Not trying to be plucky - just what it is.
I conceal with a trijicon on my CZ P07. All the guys I train with all run dots also. Some slides have to be cut but that makes them just a hair lighter, but I generally don’t like the way pistol slides track after you do that, especially with an already light slide on a CZ, but just train with it and it’s not noticable after a while. Then I put a threaded barrel on it with a comp and made it feel less jumpy
Then again I’m the kind of guy who’ll put $2000 into a $700 pistol and turn it into a serious fighting implement. Dots don’t really fail these days if you get one above about $600. Immerse them in water, run over them with a Tahoe, beat it against a tree, and not only does it not care, it retains zero. Battery lasts years, too
Also, I should mention I spent about $120 more than I needed to because I was gonna mount it one way, and after I paid for it and got it, I found a lower profile bracket than what I was originally gonna use. So that was my bad
Every kind of sight has different advantages and downsides.
This new design combines the advantages of multiple kinds while eliminating many of the downsides.
Too each his own, but this will be advantageous to many people depending their preferences and the way they need to use it.
“almost ZERO people who actually work in hostile environments use glass on pistols”
This isn’t glass, one of the features is glowing dots of paint.
I’d suggest you watch the video.
Thanks, but I watched all of it - until the part where you need to look through those rear thingies.
You didn’t read my post.
I agree. Perhaps my perspective is very different.
Did you see the part where you can look over the top instead?
I like tritium dots but for speed there is no substitute for learning to point shoot and make sight acquisition secondary
Took me years and tens of thousands of rounds to get good at it but once you do it’s nearly like riding a bike
It’s not seriously high precision but I can generally draw and be in target firing before most people have found their front sight
Again, lots of practice but even an air pistol or 22 will get you a long ways along the process
This sight and what AAABEST is talking about is referencing Red Dots.
This sight is just a modified pistol sight that they figured how to incorporate 3 different features as opposed to the two offered with traditional night sights.
Very short distance. I can hit those 100% with any decent sights.
Incorrect.
Survey: How are pistol RDS performing so far?
Red dot sights on pistols for patrol officers: Policy and training considerations/a>
Your very first link says it’s hardly done, multiple times, and only found *eleven* people for the survey. And it’s about police work.
Thanks for wasting everyone’s time - because you can’t read your own links.
Miniature red dot sights (MRDS) on pistols are quickly being adopted by forward-thinking law enforcement agencies who are discovering the range of benefits offered by adding an optic to a duty pistol. As more data is published, mounting evidence clearly shows that MRDS enhance the safety and accuracy of law enforcement pistols, improve situational awareness and are more effective when used in high-stress situations.Furthermore, an unbiased person would easily find this (from 2017):- snip -
MRDS have already been adopted by many agencies across the United States to great effect. Similarly, agencies are also converting to modular optic system pistols in the event they choose to adopt MRDS in the future.
Results of a 4 Year Handgun Red Dot Study by Sage Dynamics
Feel free to contact every one of the "In-Use Agency Contacts" on the last page of the study...if you dare.
From 2018:
Houston PD: Pistol Red Dot Sights Approved For Duty Use
The move towards the use of micro red dot sights by military and law enforcement has been gaining steam in the past few years with special teams and units being allowed to field the technology on a more case-by-case process. With more than 5,000 officers on staff Houston PD is set to take the lead on electronic sight use in U.S. law enforcement.More:
Starting a Duty Pistol Red Dot Optic Program
More and more law enforcement agencies are now allowing their officers to train with red dot sights on their duty handguns and to use these optics on their duty weapons. Some agencies are even issuing the handgun optics. And at least one—the Houston Police Department—has made red dot optics mandatory on the duty pistols of recruits.Is it time for your agency to move to red dot sights?
Brentwood Police adopting red dot sights for service pistols
City of San Jose: MINIATURIZED RED DOT SIGHT OPTICS FOR DUTY PISTOLS
Much more out there if you're not using the CB browser.
I practice 5X5’s with two pistols: a Taurus G3c with Glock-style sights, and a very nice Sig P320C-RX with a red dot sight. My Taurus outperforms the Sig at speed shooting at 5 yards. Take it past 7 yards in a non-urgent pace, the Sig rules. The best is the Taurus with a laser sight, but then I can’t carry it concealed.
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