The optic-sighted pistol carries well in this Topless holster by High Noon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Vickers 300 drill started off well with all ten shots in the 10 ring, non-dominant hand only…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/GlockRMR_01.jpg\")
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Last month was \u201cretro month\u201d for me, carrying and teaching with revolvers that harken back to the late Nineteenth Century.\u00a0 The Smith & Wesson Model 66 .357 and Model 64 .38 Special I swapped between harken back to S&W\u2019s Hand Ejector Model of 1899 in terms of basic design.<\/p>\n
It was time to update.<\/p>\n
I figured I couldn\u2019t get a whole lot more Twenty-First Century than a polymer framed, striker-fired 9mm with the currently trendy \u201ccarry optics.\u201d\u00a0 I chose my Gen4 Glock 19 MOS (Modular Optic System) with Trijicon RMR (Ruggedized Miniature Reflex) sight.\u00a0 Gotta keep up with the times.\u00a0 The pistol was gone over by Wilson Combat, complete with high-rise \u201csuppressor-type\u201d Trijicon night sights, so if the battery in the optic dies I still have something to aim with. I agree with my colleague Karl Rehn, who has done some extensive comparison work between red dot sights like this,\u00a0 laser sights, and conventional \u201ciron sights\u201d that being able to line up the\u00a0 iron sights you\u2019re already familiar with, through the glass of the optic, gets you onto the red dot faster. I\u2019m carrying it in a High Noon Topless concealment holster which it fits perfectly, RMR and all.<\/p>\n
This is a good thing for me, because I\u2019m kind of like a house cat in one respect: I have trouble catching the damn red dot. The window in compact carry optics is a whole lot smaller than the bigger red dot optics that have been so successful on military rifles in the recent long conflict, or the ones we use on competition-only \u201cspace guns.\u201d\u00a0 Carry optics are designed to be compatible with concealment.<\/p>\n
My eye surgeon has a busy schedule, and between his schedule and mine we haven\u2019t yet been able to set a date for the cataract surgery I\u2019ve been needing for a while on both eyes.\u00a0 Thus, where you see a nice round dot through a red dot optic like the RMR, I see a blurry chevron-lookin\u2019 thing tilted sideways with a starburst behind it.\u00a0 Still, if I put that in the middle and keep control of the trigger, it gets the shots where they need to go.<\/p>\n
I just heard about a shooting drill created by the legendary Larry Vickers, called the Vickers 300. You take an NRA B-8 target, the black bulls-eye they use for 25 yard Timed and Rapid Fire at the NRA National Pistol Championships.\u00a0 In this drill, you shoot ten rounds weak hand only from five yards, ten strong hand only from ten yards, and the last ten free style at 20 paces. I didn\u2019t know if \u201cfree-style\u201d meant prone or whatever, so I ran it from two-handed standing. Cleaned it with a 100\/100 at five paces left-handed, dropped one out of the ten ring all the way out into the eight-point ring right-handed at ten yards, and wobbled four nine-point hits from the 20 yard line for a total of 294 out of 300 possible points, or 98%.<\/p>\n
Obviously, the old guy here needs to work harder, and drag himself deeper into the Twenty-First Century.\u00a0 As some pussycat probably said, \u201cI\u2019ll catch that damn red dot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson Combat Gen4 Glock 19, with Trijicon RMR <\/strong><\/em>optic backed up by hi-rise Trijicon iron sights.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The optic-sighted pistol carries well in this Topless holster by High Noon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Vickers 300 drill started off well with all ten shots in the 10 ring, non-dominant hand only…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n