Speedluvn
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Just got a Vortex Venom. What are preferred set ups when zeroing in the red dot. I don’t know, what I don’t know. I’m looking for pointers?
I lollipop them over my front sight blade.
Zero at 10yds to start. Ignore your irons and co-witness and all that... the irons are what they are. If you're using your irons to find the dot, you're doing it wrong, and you need to dry-fire from the draw more.
I've seen varying opinions about whether 10yds, 15yds, or 25yds is the preferred zero. IMHO, for practical shooting, it does not matter a whole heck of a lot. Having a good zero at 10yds is better than having a bad zero at 25yds.
Zero at 10 yards. No reason not to slave the dot to the irons (as well as you can) to get it on paper initially. Ignore the irons when actually zeroing from there though.
This is what I’ve been reading but I wanted real world experience. I’m also trying to understand using the red dot. I’m using the dot to locate my target, correct? Or do I use the front sight to locate the target?
This is what I’ve been reading but I wanted real world experience. I’m also trying to understand using the red dot. I’m using the dot to locate my target, correct? Or do I use the front sight to locate the target?
To help illustrate the concept, I just slapped together this little doodle. Hopefully it will help with the concept. Once you think it through, it's obvious. But a lot of people who zero in up close end up shocked that they're shooting way OVER a target a few dozen yards away. Obviously at much longer distances, bullet drop starts to enter into the math, but not meaningfully with a typical pistol at pistol working distances.
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Very nice illustration of what takes place and why you always want your rifle scope mounted as low as possible also
Great illustration Occam! I'm a dumb country boy and that breaks it down to where even I better understand it now.
Hey, a picture really is worth the ol' thousand words. And it's DEFINITELY worth saving half a box of ammo while you figure it out the hard way. "Wait ... I've got to hold LOWER, the farther away the target is? What?" Being too casual on that myself the first time with a pistol red dot, it cost at least a beer's worth of ammo before I realized what I was doing wrong (zeroing too close).