Smithfield is Chinese owned. Just sayin’.Well, Smithfield is good too ............ but with sausages ..... not so much guns!!!! HaHa! Just kiddin' with you, don't let the mix-up bother you. We've all done similar at one time or another.
Thanks for the tip Bob
....... don't think I was aware of that, but then neither is probably another 300m Americans. And not particularly proud of it either, again like most Americans, but ....... what are we gonna do about it? Unfortunately some folks way above our pay grade makes those deals and we have little to nothing to say about it.
Don’t really like that you can’t see 1/2 the front sight. It’s probably fine in practice, but it’s kind of a bugaboo of mine in choosing a RDS. Still haven’t seen anything other than the Shields that have a 100% cowitness. Not sure why no one has come up with that...
I agree with you on this. The 'lower third' co-witness is OK with a rifle with a long sight radius where you can more easily raise/lower your line of sight , but not so good on a short sight radius pistol. It does make a real difference.
Just as a heads up - in your development as a shooter - you're not "all in" on the dot you're probably still subconsciously using the irons to align the gun. This is going to prevent you from developing a really strong index and really developing speed through hard target focus - which is what you need/want. Back up irons are back ups - if you develop your index to shoot a dot well - you don't need the full sight picture. When you do it right - you'll target focus with the irons if the dot were every to go down as well.
I'd be all in on the dot, just as I am on my AR with a RDS. Iron sights would be completely backup. And if they are needed as a backup, I want the whole picture there, not a half a front sight with the bottom half being blocked out by the base of the RDS. If I'm using my weapon in a defensive situation and my RDS craps out on me, I want every advantage and do not want to be hindered in any way. Only seeing half of a front sight would be a hinderance in my book.
I don't think we're communicating well. Learning to shoot a dot on a pistol well allows you to target focus with irons as well. a full sight picture is irrelevant since most sights are sighted to to the tip of the front sight blade. If you're frosty with your given window and your index is strong - the sights should be aligned anyway you're just looking for a different confirmation from the irons than you do the dot. It's not an advantage - more of the target is occluded is all. 3 nubs at the bottom of the window is really all that's necessary to put rounds where they need to go.
Now that is a 100% cowitness. If the RDS ever malfunctioned or ran out of batteries in a critical situation, you'd still be 100% able to use your iron sights as if the RDS wasn't there.This picture is not the greatest in terms of detail, and after reading the post above I don’t know what all was said. I’m sure I will say what has been said but if anyone has read my post on dots, you know I love em’. They are quick and with the right rig not to cumbersome. In my opinion you need some suppressor height sights to co-witness your dot. I prefer to run my dot right on top of my front sight and I was getting a little confused on what some of the post were saying above in terms of 1/3 or 1/5 ect. This picture, not mine will somewhat show how I run mine, as it is sits on my front post, and and a 1/4” high where if, for some reason my dot goes down I’m still in it with my sights.
Must be an old receipt she was saving, they're bankruptShe’ll reply back with her receipt from Macy’s
This is as good an example of 'Absolute' or 100% co-witnessing with factory installed iron sights as you'll likely ever see.This picture is not the greatest in terms of detail, and after reading the post above I don’t know what all was said. I’m sure I will say what has been said but if anyone has read my post on dots, you know I love em’. They are quick and with the right rig not to cumbersome. In my opinion you need some suppressor height sights to co-witness your dot. I prefer to run my dot right on top of my front sight and I was getting a little confused on what some of the post were saying above in terms of 1/3 or 1/5 ect. This picture, not mine will somewhat show how I run mine, as it is sits on my front post, and and a 1/4” high where if, for some reason my dot goes down I’m still in it with my sights.
Yes it is. You can see the entire front dot lined up between the rear notch. That’s how I’d want my RDS set up.
