That sounds fine if the front is also a flip up. I just feel better about an A2 style pinned gas block front sight on a SHTF gun & like a 1/3 bottom co-witness on that type of gun better.
I meant since I prefer to run a fixed front sight I like it lower 1/3 co-witnessed. You can't do his little re-zero trick with a 1/3.
why not? you getting that much paralax in your dot?
-rvb
I'm guessing that he means... The red dot is hovering in space above the aligned sight picture of the irons when it is a 1/3 co-witness setup. If your rear sight needs to go back on the rifle then you have to do a little guess work to determine how far above the aligned iron sights to put the red dot.
If the sights and red dot are zeroed with the dot on the top of the post then you have eliminated a lot of subjectivity when re-installing a rear sight.
That was a lot harder to put into words than it was to picture.
Sooo....
My first question is how the hell do you get the rear sight back based off of a floating red dot and the front site post?!
And he lost any credibility when he said he really likes to A.R.M.S. components and then he says buy quality components...
How do you ensure the dot is in the same place to establish the alignment?!If A=B and B=C then A = C.
If your dot is zerod at x distance, and your irons are zerod at the same distance, then the dot should align with your irons when looking through the irons.
So if you have to re-zero one or the other, you should be able to at least get close by aligning the dot and the irons.
-rvb
How do you ensure the dot is in the same place to establish the alignment?!
How do do that with a NEW rear site and ensure it is a zero...You view it through your irons.
How do you ensure the dot is in the same place to establish the alignment?!
How do do that with a NEW rear site and ensure it is a zero...
How do do that with a NEW rear site and ensure it is a zero...
I'll stick with using my bore sight. It does not take up that much room in my kit...