With the ever increasing number of firearms that can accept and/or come with red dot sights, out of simple curiousity, I recently wondered if anyone here might have red dot sights installed on their pistol, rifle and shotgun.

If so, is this just for competitive shooting, personal/home defense, both?

As for me, I'm firmly sold on RDSs for rifles and shotguns, but I haven't made that leap with pistols. Just from limited handling of some RDS equipped pistols that come through my LGS, I find it a bit more difficult to rapidly aquire the dot. This, plus a bit of, ( silly, I know ) mis-trust of them on a pistol.

I'm interested in what the forum has to say about this subject.

Question:
Do you have a red dot sight of some sort installed on a pistol, rifle and shotgun?

Choices:
Yes, doesn't everyone?
No, but I use RDSs on one or two of the three firearms types
Not no, but hell no! Those fancy gizzmos are for Buck Rogers!
Red dot sights.. on a gun..? This can be done?

 

RDS are a godsend for my implanted lens replacements.

I haven't tried one on a pistol, but I'm 100% sold on them for long guns for defense and combat. Only thing stopping me on the handgun is cost and priorities. I'll get one soon I'm sure.

If you count my Open gun, yes. I don't find slide rides that useful.

Red dots are a criminal offense on historical firearms (and reproductions). Can you see a red dot on a 1873 Winchester...or on a Sharps? How about on a Colt SAA?

But it's really cool on my Ruger 10/22.

They are an excellent container to store dead batteries in.

My eyes, which were never very good, find red dots to be a godsend. I have them on 2 of my 3 .22 rifles (the third is a really good peep) and my Single Six and now my pellet pistol.

Sight acquisition is indeed an issue and I do not have and will not put them on any of my pistols.

For the cheapies I use, recoil tolerance is also an issue so there are none on my centerfire weapons.

Not sure why anybody would want one on a shotgun except perhaps a slugs-only situation.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
They are an excellent container to store dead batteries in.

This is also true. I have a hole in my diesel fuel tank as evidence.

I had a particularly ballsy fox stalking my chickens in broad daylight. Grabbed my Henry in .22 Mag, flipped on the scope and...nada. Out of desperation and not a little anger, I tried point-shooting at him, panning and racking as he ran across the barnyard. I stopped my swing about 6 inches too late and holed the heating oil tank I store diesel fuel in. Fortunately, it was above the level of the fuel...

Nothing a little FlexSeal wouldn't fix anyway, right?

-Rob

My older eyes need a red dot sight for anything beyond 15 yards. I have one on my favorite range gun. A red dot is also easier and faster than using iron sights.

My wife has 3 handguns with laser grips. She had a problem with pushing the gun just as she pulled the trigger, she couldn't see it, I could but could not convince her that she was doing it until I got her a handgun with laser grips. Now she can see the red dot and how it moves when she pulls the trigger.

G19 MOS for USPSA Carry Optics

Nah, just long guns right now.

I join 100% of serious US military personnel in having a RDS or scope equipped long gun.

I just added one on my Ruger 22/45 and I love it!

RDS for long guns. None for handguns..........for now.

I have three red dot sights, two Aimpoint T-1s and an Aimpoint T-2.

One Aimpoint T-1 is on a .300BLK AR-15. The Aimpoint T-2 is on a Tavor. For fast shooting with a rifle inside 50 yards I don't think there's any better sight.

The other Aimpoint T-1 is on a Browning Buckmark that is set up as a suppressor host. It used to have a Burris Fastfire on it, but then I had the extra Aimpoint lying around and figured why not. I'm slower to acquire the dot than I am to acquire iron sights - that's probably a matter of practice more than anything else - but especially on a pistol with so little recoil, once you've got the dot, the RDS makes shooting fast so easy it's like cheating.

Every shotgun I own is set up for bird hunting and/or clay games. None of them have sights, just the standard bead on the rib. If I got in to 3 gun or other tactical shotgun stuff and got a shotgun specifically for that, I'd almost certainly put a red dot on it.

I had one of those fancy built Zev Tech glocks with a trijicon RMR. I bought it because a friend needed money and it was cheap enough (still a hell of a lot of money for a glock). I ended up selling it for what I paid because I just couldnt get used to the red dot, and shot better with standard sights.

Nope. Red messes with my fung-shway.

Red dot on my MKIII and AR. Burris fastfireIII on the Ruger, EoTech 512 on the AR.The AR is great, feels natural, the MKIII is not. Have to make a definate adjustment to pick up the dot. Took a few shots with a friends CZ-97 with a red dot. Hard to pick up the dot. I very much prefer the open sights for faster target acquisition. I'm sure that with a lot of practice it would become routine, but not ready to put one on my carry pistol or nightstand piece.

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Red dots on all AR's including AR pistols. 1 shotgun and a trijicon on an M&P 9

I need to work more with the pistol. What I've observed is on the initial draw (especially if moving quickly) it is a lot easier for me to find the sights. Once that is done I locate the dot and use it from there.

For slower distance shots with the pistol it can't be beat.

Absolutely love them on any of my carbines.

Mark