{"id":6937,"date":"2021-09-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2021-09-06T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T15:23:49","slug":"thoughts-on-carry-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/thoughts-on-carry-optics\/","title":{"rendered":"THOUGHTS ON CARRY OPTICS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A growing trend in defensive handguns, from police service pistols to armed citizens\u2019 concealed carry guns, is \u201ccarry optics\u201d: compact red dot sights.\u00a0 I have three such in-house right now, all 9mms:\u00a0 a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.langdontactical.com\/92-elite-ltt-with-rdo-slide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Langdon Beretta 92 LTT<\/a> with Trijicon SRO, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilsoncombat.com\/glock-custom-work\/#customize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wilson Combat<\/a> Glock 19 with Trijicon RMR, and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.langdontactical.com\/springfield-armory-hellcat-custom-from-ltt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LTT Springfield Armory Hellcat with Holosun 407K<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good news: You can see more target area around the red dot aiming index, better allowing you to see what\u2019s happening at the target. Many shooters find the red dot improves accuracy. You can focus on the target and see the aiming dot simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bad news: Gotta keep that glass clean and fog-free. Anything battery-dependent is a concern. There is added bulk: appendix carry is popular with these guns because the broad surface of the abdomen gives more room to discreetly conceal the shape of a now \u201ctaller\u201d pistol.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carry optics on a handgun have a significant learning curve. Unlike a long gun, there\u2019s no anchor point at the shoulder nor cheek index on the comb of a stock to help align eye with the red dot and the target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m kinda like a cat chasing a laser beam: I have trouble catching the red dot.&nbsp; Thus, while I appreciate the advantages of a red dot, I\u2019m still not as fast with it as I am with the iron sights to which I\u2019ve been so long habituated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers, give me some input.&nbsp; Tell me what you think of the concept, and let me know how much time you have working with them, and what type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing trend in defensive handguns, from police service pistols to armed citizens\u2019 concealed carry guns, is \u201ccarry optics\u201d: compact red dot sights.\u00a0 I have three such in-house right now, all 9mms:\u00a0 a Langdon Beretta 92 LTT with Trijicon SRO, a Wilson Combat Glock 19 with Trijicon RMR, and an LTT Springfield Armory Hellcat with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6938,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions\/6938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}