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74novaman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:32 am

K-Texas wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:34 pm So how many of you guys carry, or plan to carry with a RDS mounted on your carry-gun?

The points made about putting the time in to get acclimated certainly seem valid, as far as range use. In a defensive shooting scenario, can you get a shot on target as quickly?

You need to read the Sage Dynamics white paper on red dot use.

http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/7dc128_50 ... 7925b1.pdf

Related to your question would be the force on force testing they did.

In a direct comparison, there is not a great discrepancy in the number of rounds fired, nor in the number of rounds that were hits, there is a large discrepancy that favors the MRDS in the number of critical hits. It’s also worth noting that the number of rounds missed is nearly twice as high with iron sights.

In "defensive scenarios", the red dot equipped handgun was a significant advantage, even for students who did not have previous experience shooting red dot equipped handguns before this class.

Medley86 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 9:41 pm

troglodyte wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:05 am

The simultaneously most hurtful/true thing I’ve heard about shooting red dot equipped pistols is “There are no more hard shots, just bad trigger presses”.

OUCH!

I'm looking at getting a XD 9 Service Model soon. Upgrading to RDS is high on the want list.

Xdm 4.5 osp will get you a slightly longer barrel few more rounds and a slide pre milled for an optic. You can also get one with an extended threaded barrel on top of all that

The simultaneously most hurtful/true thing I’ve heard about shooting red dot equipped pistols is “There are no more hard shots, just bad trigger presses”.