With any substantial "muscle memory" dedicated to presentations with a 1911/2011, the higher the Dot is perched on the slide, the more difficult it is to "groove in" the new muscle memory and find the Dot.
Assuming one is unconcerned with voiding factory warranty; get the sight as low as possible.
Limiting factors with 1911/2011; height of bore in relation to hand (web of your hand is closer to bore axis with Glock/CZ P10 series as example), relatively narrow slide of 1911 requiring mounting plate, amount of "meat" from top of slide to firing pin channel.
In a perfect world, the bottom of the RD screen would be even with top of slide. This isn't possible with current generation of micro Red Dots on the 1911/2011 platform.
There was a thread here earlier that mentioned the USMS requested the Stacatto P be set up so the Leupold DPP would bolt directly to the slide.
This may be an option(?).
With the two examples shown (2011 DVC P and CZ P10c) you can clearly see the RD sits higher on the slide of the 2011, as well as the slide itself sitting higher in the web of your hand.
This seeming disadvantage can be (fairly easily) overcome with dedication to repetitive presentations, but certainly isn't ideal IMO.
Given a choice, I'd mount the Dot as low as possible, irregardless of voiding warranty.
(Both optics below share the same "footprint". It is fairly an "apples to apples" comparison in that regard.)
Last edited by gaijin; 12-31-19 at 09:04.
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