C-grunt
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Ive been shooting a red dot on a handgun for over a year now. Mine is a Glock 17 MOS with a RMR on a C&H Precision plate.
Last week I finally was able to attend my department's red dot class to carry it on duty. The class consisted of 3 days and roughly 1400 rounds fired. Our instructors have been to multiple red dot instructors courses including Sig Academy and other well known trainers. They also compete in USPSA with the dots. Basically they have fully embraced "the dot life" and now I have too.
My main concealed carry gun will have a dot soon and pistols I buy going forward will be bought with dots in mind. Except for things like S&W revolvers, single actions, and 1911s which I buy to enjoy their old school awesomeness.
Running a dot takes some definite effort to learn. Mostly learning to shoot threat focused and training your had eye coordination to draw the gun to the dot and not to look for irons. But once you get it down the dot is faster, more accurate, easier on moving targets, and way way easier to use in low light.
20210809_092542 by chase, on Flickr
Last week I finally was able to attend my department's red dot class to carry it on duty. The class consisted of 3 days and roughly 1400 rounds fired. Our instructors have been to multiple red dot instructors courses including Sig Academy and other well known trainers. They also compete in USPSA with the dots. Basically they have fully embraced "the dot life" and now I have too.
My main concealed carry gun will have a dot soon and pistols I buy going forward will be bought with dots in mind. Except for things like S&W revolvers, single actions, and 1911s which I buy to enjoy their old school awesomeness.
Running a dot takes some definite effort to learn. Mostly learning to shoot threat focused and training your had eye coordination to draw the gun to the dot and not to look for irons. But once you get it down the dot is faster, more accurate, easier on moving targets, and way way easier to use in low light.
20210809_092542 by chase, on Flickr