People will get killed when the batteries suddenly die!
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.
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I would like to piggy back off this:
Learning to use a dot has done more to correct my grip and presentation than anything I've ever used in the past. I still have to use irons on certain guns and since acclimating to the dot, I shoot everything better than before.
I took some training about a year ago and the instructor used a pistol with no sights on the slide to demonstrate how critical grip, presentation, and trigger work was to handgunning. He could shoot just as well all the way back to the 20 and demonstrated this at the start of the class.
I also liked your use of the word occlude.
