Originally Posted by
Sainte
RDS on a range toy or comp pistols are great, as far as duty carry, I HIGHLY do not recommend them.
When I hear some guys at work talking about getting them, I tell them to pull out their pistol and point out how dirty their gun is with dust, dirt, lint what have you.
Then I break out a RDS on a rifle and spray water on the eye side of the dot and show them how the RDS is useless at that point.
Don't get me wrong, I have a few pistols with a RDS on them but, again I use them as range toys. I have found that if you do not constantly train with them, you spend more time trying to find the red dot than you do watching your target, this is NOT a good thing to be doing in a life/death situation.
Others may have a different experience or opinion and that is fine. It is just my personal opinion on RDS on a pistol.