Tomahawkman
Expert
They are actually performing better across the board, shooting while moving especially. They are seeing the feedback from the dot while pressing the trigger and its helping give visual understanding of what their input to the gun is doing. Many have indicated that they are a lot more confident now as well because the red dot is helping them make shots within certain accuracy standard they previously were not able to do with iron sights. The biggest benefit as a shooter is that the dot provides that ultra fine movement feedback that you don't get with irons.I think this can also be seen in USMC rifle qualification scores once the ACOG was adopted. They moved scoring brackets up because scores were increasing across the board, from what I’ve been told.
My only question would be this though: Did folks just start getting better scores or did they actually shoot better? Qualifications are one thing, shooting scenario drills may be different. I’d like to hear your opinion on that.
The hardest part of training the transition was getting them onto a target focus and not dot focus.