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You're going to get a lot of answers from both sides and someone will likely post a FUDD like Bill Wilson or Hackathorn saying RDS are worthless. Oh, there it is.
In any case, it's the same argument when the T1 and various Aimpoints came out for the AR market 20+ years ago. "Don't need dots, my irons work and the don't need [email protected]#[email protected]+#@*@ old man cough".
Best bet is for you to try it out yourself. Borrow someone's pistol with a RDS on it and try it yourself in a dark room. All my carry guns have optics and most have a Modlite attached. I have never once seen my dot wash out. And the Modlite throws a beam like a light saber.
To me, again to me, the RDS is way easier to find than an iron in dim to no light. It's easier to aim, more accurate and at this point I can target acquire much faster than irons. That's also because I do and still do dry fire practice and have taken dot classes.

 

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The distance part is where he completely loses me. If the dot offers no advantage over irons at close distances, but DOES offer an advantage over irons at distances past 10m,,, why wouldn’t you want to hedge your bets and go for what offers shooters an edge at ALL distances?
And fully agree- I lost a lot of willingness to listen to Hackathorn when he became a paid schill for Bill Wilson. And because Bill hates red dots, well, Hack has to as well.
Every one of their ‘talks’ just reminds me of the grumpy old Muppets that sat up in the balcony. Only difference is instead of calling Fozzy’s jokes hack jobs, they’re spouting ridiculous nonsense like RDS are just marketing hype.
Nevermind that they’ve been on competition pistols for 30 years. Nevermind that LEAs are putting them on duty weapons. Nevermind that almost every manufacturer out there is making pistols at least with a red dot ready slide (note- WC fought this tooth and nail until very recently), and I can go on and on.
Just reminds me of the people who said the internet was a fad and no one needs more than 5 TV channels.