Ditch the Supressor Sights and Achieve an Absolute Cowitness with Dawson Precision Sights

A lot of people online will tell you to never cowitness your pistol red dot with your iron sights. This is because historically, doing so will result in you just using your irons with the red dot essentially verifying your zero. Or worse, you could have obnoxiously tall suppressor height irons that obscure your sight picture with the dot somewhere down the middle. You basically zero your red dot above your point of impact and then hold over for all of your shots using kentucky windage.

I understand the argument, I really do. But my argument is, if your irons are backups, why should your irons get the absolute cowitness?

Lately, the trend seems to be shifting in that direction as red dots prove more reliable, so instead we see shooters completely ditching iron sights all together and only running the dot alone as a sighting system. That's a little to ballsy for my comfort as well.

In this video I'm going to make the case that there is a solution to this problem, that doesn't involve you ditching your irons, and doesn't involve you zeroing above point of impact with weird hold over or obscuring your sight picture with obnoxious supressor height sights.

How do we do this? The answer is with smart design choices when building our handgun in the first place.

Imagine if you could have a slide cut low enough that it negates the footprint of your red dot optic. This is how the Brownell's RMR slides are cut. I have a whole video on why the Brownells slide is the best slide on the market for glock builds, but one reason is this extremely low RMR cut that allows you to hide most of the floor of the red dot optic. That gives us a really unique advantage over other mounting solutions.

Your optic, even ones with thicker bases, will sit lower against the irons, so you can have irons that are shorter than supressor height sights and still be visible over the floor of the optic.

Now depending on the red dot choice, unless its really low like the holosun EPS or SCS, standard height irons probably won't cowitness still over the optic. This was definitely the case in my Glock 19 build with standard glock sights. To my knowledge, there isn't an RMR footprint optic on the market that sits as low as the Holosun SCS or EPS models currently. So the answer is to get irons that are fine tuned to sit as low to the optic window as we can get them.

That is where Dawson Precision comes in. Dawson Precision makes iron sights that come in a variety of sizes so you can come up with a solution that fits your particular slide and optic combination perfectly. They offer their sights in different sizes and configurations including different dot patterns and night sights for different needs.

For both budget and my own needs, I choose blacked out irons as I want them to not be distracting, as if I wasn't running irons at all, and affordable. This combination cost $40 shipped.

I'll have the link to this exact build in the description. But here I'm running dawson precision irons, on a brownells RMR glock 34 slide, with a Bushnell RXM-300.

My dawson precision sights sit just high enough to cowitness above the floor of the optic while still being visible in the optic window. For all intents and purposes in regular shooting, I don't even see them. But if my optic dies for any reason, I can still use them with a combat hold as backups. For me, this is perfect, they truly are last ditch backups. My optic isn't taking a back seat to my irons and I don't lose any of my sight picture.

Because most red dots have very little parralax deviation at close ranges, I just hold the dot in the center of my optic when shooting and my bullets go where I want them to go generally speaking.

So guys, this is by far my preferred configuration now for a lot of builds. I'm going to be picking up dawson precision sights for my Glock 19 build next.

For my concealed carry context, I'm running a Holosun EPS. I've talkied about this in my slide cut video, but I got my Glock 26 cut for a 507K footprint, which the EPS uses. That direct slide mill combined with the low profile of the EPS makes my standard height trijicon irons cowitness just fine, which is awesome for concealed carry. This is another great solution if you have a direct milled shield RMSC cut.

One day I hope a company will come out with an extremely low profile RMR cut optic, then the dawson precision sights would not be neccessary, although i might still choose them because they are cheap and super nice. Something like the Holosun SCS but in an RMR footprint would be amazing. If that happens, I think it will be game changing. However, until that happens, this Brownells RMR + Dawson Precision + whatever optic is my flavor of the day is working out really well and I think its the best compromise with what products are available on the market now.

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