 Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in. Every time I feature a handgun that happens to be red dot ready Many people give me feedback and say doesn't anybody know how to shoot with open sights? I'm so sick of hearing about red dots. Forget red dots. I don't want anything to do with them And then you have the other side to say if it doesn't have a red dot availability Then I don't want anything to do with it So we have a little bit of divide and I I understand that because I have gone full circle I remember about ten years ago. I was in a training class and two guys there had Red dots on their handguns and we had some shooting competitions in this class and these guys pretty well dominated The shooting competitions and I was thinking I was looking at this going. What are these guys doing? They're carrying these these handguns with red dots on there. It was so foreign to me And they ended up dominating I started thinking maybe there's something to this but I'm still not interested Now when you start shooting red dots and you've been shooting iron sights your whole life There's a learning curve. You have to learn to trust one dot. That is a Mechanically driven dot on glass. It's different. You hold the gun different You have to trust the dot even when you feel the gun is off-center. It's not easy to transition from Iron sights to red dots. However, once you are able to practice and get that down pretty good Red dots are very nice. They Kind of gives you the feeling that you're cheating But there used to be a time when people had to get their slides milled to fit a red dot. That was Something in a lot of people were doing it. They say I'm putting a red dot on here and back then you had Loophold you had vortex and you had Trigicon making the the lion's chair of the red dots out there Now you have everybody doing it But people had to mill their slides to get a Trigicon RMR now that was another argument against red dots You know an RMR is up to 500 bucks or so when they say, you know what? I'm paying just as much for the red dot as I Paid for the hang on this doesn't make sense to me and then other people are saying, you know what? I shoot way better with a red dot and so there's this little divide and now what we're seeing is many new releases and Old handguns that have been around a while are coming out with a gen 2 model that is now optic ready So this is what's happening in the red dot thing and I want to give you my thoughts as To where I stand I fought it for years But then I shot some and I have learned that when it comes to my CCW handgun I really don't want a red dot I just I don't want to deal with a mechanical failure that requires a battery a lot of people are you You go to a range now and you look at the people that are shooting Handguns you will see red dots all over the place Especially the undershooters. They're all over red dots to them. It's just easier and once again It feels like cheating but with a full-size handgun. I love a red dot. It took me a while to learn how to How to focus in and even when the angle of the gun didn't feel right if you trusted that and you fire and you hit your target That's kind of neat. It took a while, but I got into it now one of the things that used to be a big-time advantage was night sights night sights have been around for well since the late 80s early 90s night sights were developed tritium was developed and that was the big technology advantage with iron sights and then they As time went on they made sights adjustable. They put fiber optics in there and that's a great sight system There's no doubt about that and that's actually what I prefer with my carry gun But the point of a red dot is to trust that dot and learn how to be very accurate with it And you look at something like this a double-stack 1911 with a Hollison 407 I I would take this all day long because I've gone through that learning curve of you know Taking everything that I learned and try to unlearn it to shoot with a red dot But when it comes to a carry gun, I'm not interested full-size guns. I like it mid-sized guns I can give or take some I like it some I don't but There is this divide here now One of the things that we are seeing is that there are so many red dot manufacturers out there everything from high-end To mid-range to budget much like the handgun market. However, some of the budget red dots and green dots are Becoming so Strongly built and so reliable from my experiences that they are doing a great job meeting the needs and it takes away that that Mindset where you say I don't want to pay as much for the red dot as I did for the handgun But then you have the opposite effect is are you the type that says, you know I don't want anything to do with this because I don't want to have to relearn how I shoot I don't want to have to rely on a battery I don't want to have to change out the battery have to pull off the red dot to put the battery in the compartment That's underneath the red dot that recited in seems like a lot of work to me but yet with a Competition yeah, those guys are running red dots for the most part now red dots have been around way longer than we thought you know in the Mid-80s there were competitions where people would actually put a scope on a handgun And they ended up dominating the competitions and people said whoa whoa whoa, what's this all about that's sort of like the evolution of a red dot That's evolved from a scope to a a dot to a Micro-dot and all these different sizes and different footprints and everything and that's where we're at today So what is it that is your preference? Do you feel that it's overblown and overstated and a lot of money has gone into the red dot market That doesn't need to exist or do you believe that it holds a purpose and that it's actually easier to shoot and you're not worried about the Mechanics and the batteries behind it. It's a very interesting concept if you look at Where it started and where it's at now It has really grown and so has the amount of manufacturers who have gotten into it and as that has happened It has become even more Popular but I think the old-school people say I don't want anything to do with it, but Millennials and the Gen Z's whatever that is they say give me a red dot all day long I want to know what you think if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe