tips on red dot

[gudel]

any tips on using red dot, how to acquire the dot to the center position quickly? for now I have to look around, tilt the gun around to see if the red dot passes across.
what do you do to get it center, look really close to it? i have about 2ft distance from the red dot to the eyes.

[Custom Glock Racing]

You need to practice draws enough so that you build a pycho-motor program for the motion. ALso find a visual reference on the gun to use while drawing so that it is aligned byt he time you are looking through the optics.

[chevrofreak]

Practice practice practice. Also, longer, smaller diameter tubes allow faster acquisition of the dot from my experience.

[fnfalman]

I don't know what you guys are talking about. The only red dot sighting system I have is the Meprolight M21 (similar to Trijicon Reflex II) mounted on my AK. I pop the AK on my shoulder and there sits the red dot. Put the red dot on target and voila!

[gudel]

it's mounted for a ruger 22/45. i guess i'll just stay close to it to see the dot then go from there.

[mc_oliver]

You don't need to center the dot on the lense to be able to hit your targets. Ideally, on a parallax-free dot sight, you could have the dot anywhere on the lense and where it is, that's where you'll also hit.

But most red dots aren't ideal and will have a certain amount of parallax error. So test it out at different distances, shooting with the dot off-center, so you'll know how much compensation you need. ;)

HTH. Good luck.

Oh, btw, if you're having problems keeping the dot in the lense, the only cure is...practice. :)