My points up until now have been the optics in question have been tested in the real world for years if not decades, the batteries themselves can last for years, and threats exist passed 5 yd. I guess I missed where I was strutting and beating my chest.
There are imminent threats and there are active threats. Absent a weapon being present yes it’s not easy to show you were in imminent danger passed 5 yd. But we don’t always have the luxury of getting the drop on our attackers. Even someone with a contact weapon can be a threat passed 5 yd. Take the Tueller drill for example. A person can cover ground pretty quickly, and the Tueller drill even assumes you have already identified the threat and are drawing from a strong side belt mounted holster. Reacting from concealment requires even more distance. This isn’t even getting into the reality that firearms are ranged weapons that can certainly shoot passed 5 yd and an attacker can take advantage of that fact.
If the argument is self defense shootings passed 5 yd are rare, I can agree. Needing to use a firearm for self defense in the first place is rare. Given that I don’t find the red dot to have a disadvantage 5 yd and in, I’m not sure how having additional capability to handle longer range shots, as rare as they may be, is a bad thing. If someone doesn’t want that that’s fine.
For me, beyond advantages at range, the red dot allows target focused shooting and my brief stint in force on force showed me that focusing on sights and the target while dealing with adrenaline wasn’t easy. With a red dot I superimpose the dot on the target, making the process easier. This is in addition to the fact that my eyesight and corrective lenses make it difficult to see a crisp front sight while also being able to have good target definition at range. The dot looks visually much more clear to me than a front sight with my lenses.
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There are imminent threats and there are active threats. Absent a weapon being present yes it’s not easy to show you were in imminent danger passed 5 yd. But we don’t always have the luxury of getting the drop on our attackers. Even someone with a contact weapon can be a threat passed 5 yd. Take the Tueller drill for example. A person can cover ground pretty quickly, and the Tueller drill even assumes you have already identified the threat and are drawing from a strong side belt mounted holster. Reacting from concealment requires even more distance. This isn’t even getting into the reality that firearms are ranged weapons that can certainly shoot passed 5 yd and an attacker can take advantage of that fact.
If the argument is self defense shootings passed 5 yd are rare, I can agree. Needing to use a firearm for self defense in the first place is rare. Given that I don’t find the red dot to have a disadvantage 5 yd and in, I’m not sure how having additional capability to handle longer range shots, as rare as they may be, is a bad thing. If someone doesn’t want that that’s fine.
For me, beyond advantages at range, the red dot allows target focused shooting and my brief stint in force on force showed me that focusing on sights and the target while dealing with adrenaline wasn’t easy. With a red dot I superimpose the dot on the target, making the process easier. This is in addition to the fact that my eyesight and corrective lenses make it difficult to see a crisp front sight while also being able to have good target definition at range. The dot looks visually much more clear to me than a front sight with my lenses.
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