DLO Explanations: Red Dot Sights on Handguns

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0:00 Intro
5:45 Human Vision
8:00 Situational awareness
10:00 Why and How of co-witnessing
17:40 Rear sight location
20:15 Aging eyesight
22:15 Shooting accuracy
24:15 Iron sight types

Here is the Guns and Ammo article referenced in the video:
https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/pitfalls-mounting-pistol-optics/370097

In this video I go over my reasoning for how I set up red dot sights on semi-auto handguns and why I think co-witnessing with conventional height iron sights is important. That means low profile red dot sights are very important and that is why I tend to use Shield RMS or similar sights.

All Shield RMS sights have the same mounting pattern but come in two different widths:

Shield RMSc is a compact red dot sight for narrow slides:
https://bit.ly/2ZgWZRh

Shield RMS is a touch wider for regular slides:
https://bit.ly/339VENt

Shield RMSw is a slightly beefed up and waterproof version of the RMS. I have been using RMS and RMSc for a while and I am very happy with them. RMSw is newere, but so far, so good.

All three are very low profile which is key for the way I like to set up red dot sights on handguns.

Other red dot sights mentioned in the video that fit the same mounting pattern are Sig's Romeo Zero (https://bit.ly/3h8JIR9) and SwampFox Sentinel (https://www.swampfoxoptics.com/sentinel)