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#10MinuteTalk - Does Pistol Red Dot Height Matter?

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Sports, Vortex Optics, Shooting, Scope, Gun, Long Range, Wilderness, Hunting, Riflescope, Vortex, Vortex Nation Podcast, Binoculars, Vortex Nation, Optics, Rifle

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🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Red Dots on pistols are becoming the norm – not the exception. So, what height should your dot sit? Mark and Jim get professional advice on this often-asked question.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here. We've got Jimmy and Mark on the mic on this side of the table on a cross table

0:05.2

We have Adrian who is coming to us from vortex edge and that is for those of you not aware

0:10.6

That's kind of the training division of vortex optics. We've got a sweet facility here and Adrian

0:16.8

Your head instructor down there. You come up with a lot of the curriculum

0:19.7

You guys do stuff with carbines long range and pistol is a big element of that and

0:24.9

One of the courses that you guys do that I really love is this red dot transition

0:30.0

Essentially for those people who are going from the traditional iron sites and they're they're adopting the red dots

0:36.7

On top of a pistol. It's a very new thing for many people, but it is gaining incredibly in popularity

0:42.9

And when it comes to the setup in that like actually putting the red dot on your pistol that we still know is very much the wild west

0:49.8

As of right now at the time of this recording

0:52.2

There's a million and one different pistol platforms out there and ways to mount various different red dots

0:57.7

To those pistol slides even sometimes the frame and it hovers over the slide

1:01.6

I mean all kinds of stuff and a lot of people will bring up the question or I think maybe a lot of the

1:10.1

Reasons why there are so many different mounting methods and and something that people pay a lot of attention

1:14.3

Do is the height of the red dot at the end once it's finally been mounted and once they start using it and

1:21.2

You know, I was thought it was maybe kind of a personal preference thing or maybe there was like a certain thing

1:25.5

You had to achieve the lowest possible site height Adrian you've got some thoughts around it

1:29.6

So I'll let you kind of dive in on that a little bit. Yeah, it's one that we hear frequently people ask about it

1:36.1

And just cutting to the chase for the most part. I really don't think it matters a lot

1:40.7

You even even beg the question. Why are we doing this 10 minute talk?

1:46.0

Yeah, and in this our shortest 10 minute talk ever. Yeah, two minute talk. Let's go grab a beer. We've got eight minutes left

1:52.3

So I like you said a lot of people and I think it's for reasons of there's presentation that gets brought into the mix and then also

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