My input...
If you do not shoot a lot (dry fire included) everything Erick stated above will work for you and makes sense.
Now, if you want to go beyond that level, it will take some additional time and effort on your part (as it does for most things beyond the fundamental level), but IMO, you'll get more out of it.
Here is the issue in its most basic level. If you are looking through the tube of your red dot sight (RDS from here on out) and actually able to see your front iron sight, you are not using the sight to its full potential for speed.
I'll include some links straight from the Aimpoint website on how to properly use their RDSs at the end.
RDSs are designed to be used with both eyes open. Many people know this, but at the same time, they do not truly understand this. Hence the question comes up about co-witness). If both eyes are open you have an unlimited field of vision. If one eye is looking through the tube (in order to see the front sight) you are restricting that vision. This is not how the RDS was designed to be used.
The eye behind the RDS is only looking for the dot, not what is (or is not) beyond it like a traditional magnified telescopic sight. One eye sees the dot and that is its only job. The second eye sees the target and everything else since it is not blocked by the RDS. The brain puts these two images together and superimposes them onto each other and you have a red dot on a target.
To further illustrate my point, prior to the advent of the contemporary RDS, we has something called the OEG (Occluded Eye Gunsight). It was not a tube, it was just a red dot for that 'aiming' eye to see.
Here is a link:
armsonusa.com/faqs.htmlFor those of you with an RDS, try this simple experiment. Turn your RDS on and put the front lens cap (if you have one) on the front lens. If not, just tape over it. The point is to not be able to see through the tube. Now, treat it like an OEG. The aiming eye sees the dot, but cannot look through the tube since you've blocked it off. You are now using an improvised OEG.
You other eye sees your target and there you go, red dot superimposed on target.
This does take a bit of getting used to, but it is much faster than attempting to look through a tube and make your brain do something it doesn't want to do.
So, if you want to put in the time and effort to change the way you've been using a RDS and use it the way Aimpoint and other companies intended (time is spent retraining yourself), IMO, it is worth it.
If you do this, you'll never see the fixed front sight until you really need to when actually using iron sights.
Here are the links from Aimpoint:
us.aimpoint.com/about/the-company/both-eyes-open/us.aimpoint.com/support/faq/function/us.aimpoint.com/about/the-company/originator/As always, these are just my opinions,and Aimpoint's as well
Take care,
K
