Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Rds on pistol? Yea or nay

They are invaluable but there is a learning curve to using them if you want to use your handgun to potential.

If you're a casual shooter they will give you a false sense of expediency when you use them to zero, shoot a target (slowly), or plink empty cans. That all goes to schit the first time you try to kill something that isn't going to stand still for very long. Or you don't get your draw and presentation to where it needs to be for the red dot to be effective.

Most decent transition courses are about 16 hours. 16 minutes on the back forty usually don't cut it in my experience.