Really interesting, I am transitioning to electronic sights and finding it challenging. The prevailing wisdom when I was coming up was to catch your front sight in your peripheral vision during presentation. It doesn't help at all with and electronic sight. Challenging but fun practice. Thanks Tessa, Aimee and Ernest, valuable as always!
Always a valuable topic, I work on exactly this a lot "at home" as a dry fire exercise. I find as long as I practice presentation regularly that I can reliably present and get the dot almost instantly, but if I "let it go" for a while... not so much. Presentation also varies a bit depending on whether I'm presenting my Hellcat RDP or PX4cc. I generally present and look for my cowitness/irons as I would even if I didn't have a dot which naturally brings the reticle into view and I go from there. I have an astigmatism and the green reticles (EPS MRS) work very well for me. For EDC I tend to run my optic with the 32 MOA reticle because it catches the eye most quickly, the no-dot center allows the irons to stand out for fast dot acquisition and which can be used for more precise shots as needed. I really appreciate you LTT family, Ernest is like an older wiser brother, I just need to get my wife to join me so I'm glad Aimee and Tessah are often in these videos too, to reinforce that firearm proficiency isn't just "a guy thing." Conceal and Carry on!
One thing I like to say about irons vs. red dots is that *red dots do not make you a better shooter, they force you to be a better shooter.* You need to work on presentation, keeping the gun flat, and aiming for a general area instead of aiming for a precise spot. If you can do that with a red dot, you'll actually be better with irons as well.
Absolutely agree, a dot really exposed unintended movement -- combined with snapcaps and dryfire a dot helped to improve my grip, trigger, consistency, and precision considerably. Conceal and Carry on!
