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General Discussion / Re: Red Dot on Handgun - Sharing Experiences
« on: March 25, 2024, 09:49:41 AM »I've been using my Romeo 1 on a P320 and EPS Carry on a Glock 48. It's like cheating when shooting long distance, tighter groups and simpler to shoot than with irons. I'm still slow using it close up. Its difficult to speed up and acquire the dot on a draw so I'm practicing reps. And the other thing is I could trade some accuracy for speed, but unconsciously I just don't want to.There are numerous videos, and various methods on how to address this and/or improve on. In the two courses I took last year, they each had slightly different takes. Similar in many ways as well. Try "extreme" focus on a point and put the dot on the point. If you are having consistency issues with putting the dot on the point, there are many ways to address. That said, with irons, you've probably gotten used to point shooting.
I found it is much easier to be accurate using it in rapid fire. You have an on obstructed view of the target, and it's much simpler to look at the dot than lining up sights in the miliseconds between shots.
I'm going to TACCON next week in Dallas and everyone will be using optics there.
This was my practice target yesterday with the red shots being a Glock 48 at 7 yards. Half of them were one shot from step 3 of the draw, gun rotated forward. My shot times were 1.1 seconds with .2 sec being reaction time. It should be .75 seconds. Other half of the shots were shoot 1 reload shoot 6 rapid fire strings with .2 splits. It was easy to keep the dot in the center of the target improving accuracy.
The red shots were a few 6 shot strings with 1s splits. Again easy to keep the dot on target.
There's also the aspect of "embrace the wobble", where tendency is to want to have the dot "set" prior to "sending it". I think that's where you may be sensing some relaxation on speed vs accuracy.