Put a Vortex venom on a Glock 41 mos thinking it would be a great bowling pin pistol. This is a first for me with a red dot on a pistol and I'm just not getting along with it. Sighting in I didn't like how much more I have to break my wrists to get the muzzle down to get the red dot on target. At matches, up comes the pistol to align my sights like muscle memory has done thousands of times before and the dot is nowhere to be seen. Now I'm swinging the muzzle around looking for the dot. Not good.
I have 3 red dots on rifles that aren't a problem. I just can't get along with one on a pistol. Anybody else, or am I just the weird one.
If your eyes are good enough to shoot well with irons, you'll probably not have the motivation to change to Red Dot on pistols. There's definitely a learning curve. But, those who have made the commitment are shooting faster and more accurately with Red Dots.
Three years ago, I came to the realization that my aging eyes could no longer pick up both the irons and the target. I fiddled with different glasses, and came to the conclusion that corrective shooting glasses were at best a compromise, and in an emergency I probably wouldn't have the right glasses on anyhow. Fortunately, I'm farsighted needing only corrective 'readers' to see the irons.
So, after experimenting with some RDS on my 22 pistols, I found I could simply shoot more accurately with the red dot
without needing any eye correction lenses, just focusing on the distant target and placing the dot over it. Since then I've gone all-in on Red Dots for most of my pistols and after a lot of dry-fire practice at home, I've developed the muscle-memory necessary to shoot faster and more accurately than I could ever do with irons. Nearly 70 now, it's kept me in the game. But, YMMV -Vinny
