Pistol Red Dots

leadslinger972 · Mar 12, 2018

Bonephish · Mar 13, 2018

Magdump · Mar 13, 2018

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noob · Mar 13, 2018

Some of my pistols are equipped with them....

Doctor481 · Mar 13, 2018

Don’t knock it till you try it

flamatrix99 · Mar 13, 2018

I am glad to see this thread. I have a G19 and a G34. I have been debating which one or both to put a RDS on. Any advice? Also which RDS did you choose? I was thinking of the Vortex 3 MOA Venom.

Also do you use suppressor sights to co-witness with RDS?

Bonephish · Mar 14, 2018

flamatrix99 said:
I am glad to see this thread. I have a G19 and a G34. I have been debating which one or both to put a RDS on. Any advice? Also which RDS did you choose? I was thinking of the Vortex 3 MOA Venom.

Also do you use suppressor sights to co-witness with RDS?

I'm having slide work done now to install another Vortex Viper on my Glock 19. My M&P above is awesome with the Viper.

The Venom is a smidge larger because the battery can be changed without removing the optic. However, the Viper doesn't lose zero when removed and reinstalled.

Suppressor sights are needed to co-witness with any red dot.

noob · Mar 14, 2018

flamatrix99 said:
I am glad to see this thread. I have a G19 and a G34. I have been debating which one or both to put a RDS on. Any advice? Also which RDS did you choose? I was thinking of the Vortex 3 MOA Venom.

Also do you use suppressor sights to co-witness with RDS?

I have 3 Glock 19's and 3 Glock 34's with optics... Can't go wrong with either. But if you can't decide, you can meet in the middle with a glock 17 with optic.

thperez1972 · Mar 14, 2018

Magdump · Mar 14, 2018

flamatrix99 said:
I am glad to see this thread. I have a G19 and a G34. I have been debating which one or both to put a RDS on. Any advice? Also which RDS did you choose? I was thinking of the Vortex 3 MOA Venom.

Also do you use suppressor sights to co-witness with RDS?

I can only attest to the Cmore STS. I’ve used them on 1911 based 10mm auto on down to the .22’s. They run in the 300-350 range and for a long while they were the only thing you’d see on a race gun that would hold up. Customer service gets straight A’s from me. Bought one used from a member here and couldn’t get enough adjustment to even get it on paper. Called them up and they sent me a shipping label. A week later they sent me a new updated version. Lot of mounts on the market because they’ve been around a while.
Easy battery change as well. Just slide out the battery tray, although as long as you remember to turn it off, you won’t have to change it much.
Side note: pretty sure their design is the original. Copied by many others

Bigchillin83 · Mar 15, 2018

haven't done a whole lot of shooting with it, but plan on trying to hunt with it this year glock 40 mos 10mm, now has the trijicon rmr06 3.25 red dot on it

Bmash · Mar 15, 2018

Bigchillin83 said:
haven't done a whole lot of shooting with it, but plan on trying to hunt with it this year glock 40 mos 10mm, now has the trijicon rmr06 3.25 red dot on it

I found that at dusk on a rainy day the 3.25 non adjustable bloomed so bad It covered a good bit of the deer. (25yds) (I do have some astigmatism which increases the blooming ) I put a 1moa adjustable RMR on my 454 casull - adjust light higher for brighter bigger appearing dot, and adjust down at dusk.
Not what you want for self defense, but great for aimed hunting situation.

Bigchillin83 · Mar 15, 2018

Yea my 3.25" ones are adjustable, you can crank it down to a pretty small dot

Bmash said:
I found that at dusk on a rainy day the 3.25 non adjustable bloomed so bad It covered a good bit of the deer. (25yds) (I do have some astigmatism which increases the blooming ) I put a 1moa adjustable RMR on my 454 casull - adjust light higher for brighter bigger appearing dot, and adjust down at dusk.
Not what you want for self defense, but great for aimed hunting situation.

leadslinger972 · Mar 15, 2018

I have a Gen 4 34 with a Trijicon RMR RM01 Type 1 (and Battlewerx Anti-Flicker Plate) milled by Primary Machine. I ran that setup throughout the weekend with VATA, in the pouring rain, over two days and fired 1,000 rounds without issue. Blooming was not a problem, even though it's an auto-adjust model. If I buy another, it will be a RM06, but that's for other reasons.

flamatrix99 · Mar 20, 2018

For the Glock fanboys. Who did you get to machine your slide for you?

bryanbag · Mar 20, 2018

flamatrix99 said:
For the Glock fanboys. Who did you get to machine your slide for you?

I'll try to remember to post some pics this evening.

Bob Carver did my slide about 3 years ago. At that time he was one of the only ones milling glock slide.
All I had to do was send a bare slide. He media blast the slide, Milled and Cerakote for $150. Turn around time was about 3 weeks.
He doesn't have Vortex listed as one of his cut profiles but he can mill for that also.
http://www.bb-enterprise.biz/ecomme...ry-optic---slide-conversion-red-dot-sight.cfm

leadslinger972 · Mar 20, 2018

flamatrix99 said:
For the Glock fanboys. Who did you get to machine your slide for you?

Primary Machine out of Morgan City, LA.

My slide was nitride coated after milling, rather than Cerakote. It's a much better finish, and arguably better than the factory Glock nitride.

LouisianaJoe · Mar 21, 2018

I have a Bushnell TRS-25 on a Buckmark Hunter. I get 1" groups at 25 yds with it.

bryanbag · Mar 21, 2018

Here's my Gen 3 G34 Open. I originally had the SJC mount and running a C-More red dot. I had lots of issues with ejection and keeping zero.
Then I heard about Bob Carver from KC Eusebio of team Glock at the time. Needless to say I sent my slide off and had it back in about 2 weeks.

clo5 · Mar 21, 2018

flamatrix99 said:
For the Glock fanboys. Who did you get to machine your slide for you?

Jagerwerks Eng.

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