S7E16: Iron Sights or Red Dots? with Tim Herron Part 2
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Topic: Iron Sights or Red Dots? with Tim Herron Part 2
Riley Bowman brings on Tim Herron to discuss a topic that has been popular as of late…red dots or iron sights on handguns. Tim is a USPSA Grand Master and is a national-level top competitor in Single Stack Division. He KNOWS irons sights really well. He also trains hundreds of shooters each year through his training at TimHerronShooting.com. Riley is a bit more comfortable with red dots, but spent the last 6 weeks shooting iron sights getting ready for Production Division Nationals and will bring his perspective as well.
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to this second part of my interview with Tim Heron discussing Iron Sites versus red dots on pistols. |
| 0:10.2 | I enjoyed the conversation. |
| 0:12.1 | I hope you enjoyed part one. |
| 0:13.6 | If you've missed part one and haven't listened to that one yet, |
| 0:15.8 | I'd encourage you to go back and catch part one, which was the last episode before beginning this part two |
| 0:22.0 | because, well, part two will make a lot more sense once you've heard part one. |
| 0:26.8 | A reminder of today's episode sponsors are silencer shop.com and also CCW Safe.com. |
| 0:34.4 | I hope you'll give some support to our sponsors that made this episode possible. |
| 0:39.6 | So without further ado, let's get back to our discussion with Tim Herron. |
| 0:43.7 | Here is part two. |
| 0:45.6 | To think that one or of the other aiming devices don't fail, they do fail. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm also not one of these instructors that have just tracked either for my own |
| 0:55.2 | needs or for the needs of students to just push, you know, like, again, kind of one polarizing |
| 1:03.0 | opinion over the other. I've seen, honestly, just as many red dot sites fail in my classes as |
| 1:08.0 | I've seen iron sites fail. And to be honest with you, that number is not that often. |
| 1:14.7 | Like either way, you know, I mean, people like, well, you know, in my classes, I see very few irons or very few red dots fail. |
| 1:22.1 | I see a lot of iron sights fail. |
| 1:24.5 | It's, to me, it's honestly, it's almost equal. |
| 1:29.7 | You know, guys, like, maybe they've lifted their gun out of the holster and the battery failed at the, at the time that they needed it the most, |
| 1:33.8 | whether it be for a drill or an exercise or things like that. I've also seen people, you know, |
| 1:38.5 | like lift, lift their gun or they've been fighting like a zero issue and then they happen to actually look down |
| 1:44.8 | and look at the gun and they go oh well that's not good you know my winded screw my elevation |
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