RED DOT COMBAT PISTOLS II Gabriel Suarez

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RED DOT COMBAT PISTOLS II
RED DOT COMBAT PISTOLS II

Gabriel Suarez

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RED DOT COMBAT PISTOLS II - 2016
The State Of The Art In Combat Handguns - Updated
By Gabriel Suarez ©
Copyright 2016 – SUAREZ MEDIA GROUP
Printed in the United States of America - Published by Suarez
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INTRODUCTION 7
SIGHTS AND RESISTANCE TO PROGRESS! 9
WHY COWITNESS SIGHTS ARE IMPORTANT 15
THE VALUE OF ACCURACY 21
ZEROING THE PISTOL 29
TANDEM SIGHTING CONCEPTS 33
PROBLEMS PERCEIVED 43
ASYMMETRIC DOT POSITIONING 49
OPTIMIZING THE DUAL ILLUMINATED RMR 53
AN OLD CONCEPT - THE PDW 57
THE SUAREZ L-MOUNT 63
FIX THE FLICKERING DOT 67
PISTOL LIGHTS 71
PISTOL LASERS 73
WHAT DO WE FOCUS ON...VISUALLY 77
NEW RED DOT - LEUPOLD DELTA POINT PRO 81
TRITIUM AND RED DOTS 87
PROBLEMS WITH MOS 93
CONCLUSIONS 97

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INTRODUCTION
Having just returned from SHOT Show 2016, I was gratified to see
how many red dots on handguns there were in evidence. Later
when I gave an interview to Michal Bane, he commented that I
predicted all of this five years ago.
I mentioned then, and hold to the view now, that technology will
drive the state of the art of combat shooting forward, and that skills
will adapt to keep up with and take advantage of technology.
There will always be those archaic personnel that insist all they
need will be a good set of iron sights on old slab-sides and that
those new-fangled pistol optics will slow them down (not that they
were so fast to begin with).
But the reality is that these "new fangled pistol optics" now sit in
the holsters of police officers, military operators and skilled private
citizens, and have been there for a nearly half decade thus far.

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Rather than slow anyone down, or cause the proverbial dogs and
cats to move in together, their presence has allowed skills to
advance and surpass what was possible with older methods and
older equipment to meet the new threats of today.
It isn't 1975 any longer and the threats are in fact quite different.
While the "mugger in the parking lot" is still as much a threat as he
was in 1975, there is just as real and just as prolific a threat in the
guise of the active shooter or jihadist. Our skills and gear should
not be limited by tradition, nor by fear of modernity.
I still see some get it wrong in the industry. And while that makes
the instructor/evangelist in me frustrated, it makes the capitalist
businessman in me leap for joy.
It has been three years since I wrote the original Red Dot Combat
Pistols book, and a great deal of water has passed under the bridge.
So much so that I now set forth to write an update to that. This
will include my views on the current state of the industry, a review
of new products, and some things we have learned along the way.
Onward...Always Onward,

Gabe Suarez
President - Suarez International

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PISTOL SIGHTS AND THE RESISTANCE TO PROGRESS

I recall when Aimpoints first began appearing on rifles in the early
1990s. The resistance from the “traditional” tactics world was
incredible. Much the same when the plastic Austrian pistol began
gaining prominence. And yet today, you would be hard pressed to
see a non- plastic handgun in a police holster or a rifle without
some sort of optic. It is called progress and for those that are
change averse, progress is a frightening thing because it means that
maybe their suppositions about life were not quite perfect.
The big one today is the red dot on handguns. I shake my head like
Magellan might have when explaining to the church that the earth
was not flat as they believed for so long. The anti-red dot rhetoric
seems to be increasing with the popularity of the system. One
might wonder why that is. I suspect it has to do with the same
phenomena that caused the flat earth movement to linger for so
long.

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