Fitted with a "red dot" Aimpoint optical sight, this target semi-automatic could be used in today's Camp Perry matches.
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So, here's a question I've been meaning to ask for a while:
How is it that red dot sights on gas-cycling handguns work? Surely if they're mounted to the slide, the sheer force on discharging the weapon, coupled with the forces when the buffer spring reverses the direction of travel, and the sudden stop when the cycling is complete would surely be enough to throw the zeroing of it off, and each subsequent shot be unreliable?
The only answer I can think of is to mount the sight to the receiver, but surely that would cause problems with the balance and cycling, and make the handgun super unwieldy?
Genuine question, never used one on a handgun for fear of turning it into a million bits of broken glass on the first discharge.
Modern micro red dots are mounted to the slide. And are designed to withstand the g forces from the slide cycling. They will hold zero for thousands of rounds.
The sight pictured here certainly would not be able to do that. But that's what 40+ years of development in optics and materials will do.
Awesome, thank you!
I second that answer. Pistol red dots for serious use like self defense or in a military have only become accepted by most people in the past 10 years.