Mounting a red dot on a 22/45

jtischauser · Sep 7, 2016

I was mounting my new Vortex Venom red dot on my Ruger 22/45 Lite this morning and I couldn't decide where it should go.

So i figured I'd ask the experts. What say you? Forward, backward, perfect and why?

Thanks,

59nolimit · Sep 7, 2016

My limited experience says the further back, getting optic closer to the eyes, the better.

mike cyrwus · Sep 7, 2016

Since the recoil is nil, I would put it all the way back to try to counterweight the can as much as possible

Matt1911 · Sep 7, 2016

Back, cause I said so.

jtischauser · Sep 7, 2016

Sounds like baby got back, or at least she needs some. My only concern was it hangs over the ejection port a little bit.

Should I be worried about brass flying up, hitting the bottom of the mount and coming back into the ejection port?

Matt1911 · Sep 7, 2016

I don't have problems with mine.

dennishoddy · Sep 7, 2016

Jesse Tischauser said:
I was mounting my new Vortex Venom red dot on my Ruger 22/45 Lite this morning and I couldn't decide where it should go.

So i figured I'd ask the experts. What say you? Forward, backward, perfect and why?

Thanks,

I prefer my Burris fast fire III right where yours is located.

wgm2011 · Sep 7, 2016

I've tried it as far forward as it will go and as far back as I can mount it.

In my case my Steel Challenge times seemed to improve with it forward. Possibly a fall back on my old iron sight days. Putting it closer to the front sight just seems to help.

FWIW, I found the same thing on my Open Class shotgun. The further forward the red dot the better. (Within reason of course.)

Chad King · Sep 7, 2016

Honestly the the working theory with reflex sights like the fast fire and venom is the further forward the better. Reason being is it gives you a better sight picture with both eyes open same deal with red dot sights like the sparc and strikefire. Tho I don't know if that's true for handguns has well, but seems to me the theory would work the same. Now if your like me and can't seem to ever keep both eyes open bring her on back lol.

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