The last 22 match showed me that I am worse with a pistol than ever
though I can still kick some ass with an 80 year old rifle. One of the guys allowed me to shoot his Buckmark with a little red dot sight and it was all of a sudden as if I could shoot! So I went out and bought a rail for my Ruger (one of the No Gunsmithing types) and got it installed, and bought a knockoff red dot, and a boresight.
The red dot and the boresight both needed collimating, so I did that first, but the dot seems to be steady and the constructionis ok, for a $30 sight. I will never be a good enough shot to require the full boat Trijicon; for the same reason I have a pair of cheap speakers. My eyes cannot justify the high end sight any more than my ears can justify the high end speakers. Anyway, I hope to get out this upcoming weekend and do some shootifying wiht the new sights to see if they make any difference. I don’t like that the sight is mounted so high, there will most certainly be parrallax issues, but worse things have happened than having to adjust for the individual matches.
You have enough .22LR to SHOOT them?
The other thing to remember is that if you do blind tests (hah!) even audiophiles can rarely really tell the difference between such things.
Cheap speakers are great these days.
Cameras, too; you can get a pocket-size Nikon that’ll take 16 megapixel pictures. For a hundred bucks, maybe less on sale.
At a distance, for real accuracy with a handgun(say 25 yards) I have to use the reading glasses, otherwise I cannot get sharp sights.
Same reason I get more fond of aperture sights on rifles as time goes by.
Yeah, some type of optic can really help.