Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns What is your objection to red dot sights?

DJ Shipley has a video somewhere on YouTube where he's training somebody to shoot with masking tape over the red dot optic. It's not just simulating a dead battery, it's simulating not being able to even see the front sight through the glass.

He aims with the back plate and correct positioning of the pistol.

Interesting to watch.

Just shot 15 rounds with a completely occluded optic. Completely cold, I haven't fired a pistol in several weeks. This would be worst case scenario with a dot...The window fills up with mud, the lens spiderwebs and you can't see through it, etc.

1 shot from the holster x 5 rounds at 3-5-7 yards. 1.6ish per shot. I had one miss at each yard line.