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Zeroing Red Dot Optic

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DatBoyChamp

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I recently purchased the Vortex Defender CCW for my Hellcat Pro and Vortex Defender ST for my Echelon 4.5F Comp. ( Neither are installed at the moment), but from what I’ve been reading and hearing from YouTube videos is that it’s best to zero your red dot at 15 yards ? But what i never hear is what if you mainly only shoot at 7 yards ? Should i still zero it at 15? Will that cause accuracy issues with me mainly shooting at 7 yards ? I’m a fairly new shooter so all this stuff is new to me and just trying to learn and understand where i can . Thanks for any responses .
 
DatBoyChamp said:
I recently purchased the Vortex Defender CCW for my Hellcat Pro and Vortex Defender ST for my Echelon 4.5F Comp. ( Neither are installed at the moment), but from what I’ve been reading and hearing from YouTube videos is that it’s best to zero your red dot at 15 yards ? But what i never hear is what if you mainly only shoot at 7 yards ? Should i still zero it at 15? Will that cause accuracy issues with me mainly shooting at 7 yards ? I’m a fairly new shooter so all this stuff is new to me and just trying to learn and understand where i can . Thanks for any responses .
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It seems a lot of folks recommend 15 yards. Guess I'm an odd ball zero my dots at 12 yards. Most of my shooting is at 10 yards occasionally out to 15 yards. After today's range time did notice my old eyes prefer green dots.
 
Hey Champ, welcome... So it is true that most folks generally sight in an optic at 15 yards, sometimes 10. That is thought of as the right mixture of distance between 5 and 25, to be able to hit a target in a defense situation. If you sight in farther out, say 20 or 25 you could have a slight (2+/-") deviation at at a closer range, say up to 5 yards; however on the other side of that, if you sight in at 5 yards and actually need to shoot at say, 25 yards... your delta could be up to 5 or more inches... so I would say that it is probably better to sight in between 10 and 20 in order to play the averages of shooting accurately anywhere inside 25 yards. Note that there are No sighting ranges that will give you a perfectly accurate shot at greater or lesser ranges than you sighted in at, there will always be a delta, the goal is to minimize that delta to the best of your ability; This is all about training.
 
MrMichaelActual said:
Hey Champ, welcome... So it is true that most folks generally sight in an optic at 15 yards, sometimes 10. That is thought of as the right mixture of distance between 5 and 25, to be able to hit a target in a defense situation. If you sight in farther out, say 20 or 25 you could have a slight (2+/-") deviation at at a closer range, say up to 5 yards; however on the other side of that, if you sight in at 5 yards and actually need to shoot at say, 25 yards... your delta could be up to 5 or more inches... so I would say that it is probably better to sight in between 10 and 20 in order to play the averages of shooting accurately anywhere inside 25 yards. Note that there are No sighting ranges that will give you a perfectly accurate shot at greater or lesser ranges than you sighted in at, there will always be a delta, the goal is to minimize that delta to the best of your ability; This is all about training.
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Another note... You have to train and train, that is what its all about. I would recommend you go to an indoor range that has the movable targets, and you zero at say, 15, then shoot at 5 and 10 and 30 etc... so that you come to understand the mechanics of what the zero does for you at any given range. A lightbulb will go off when you see the movement at any given range. This is assuming good mechanics...
 
MrMichaelActual said:
Another note... You have to train and train, that is what its all about. I would recommend you go to an indoor range that has the movable targets, and you zero at say, 15, then shoot at 5 and 10 and 30 etc... so that you come to understand the mechanics of what the zero does for you at any given range. A lightbulb will go off when you see the movement at any given range. This is assuming good mechanics...
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Also please take a class of some sort
 
Welcome to the forum from Central Texas. I’m getting ready to start my adventure with handguns optics.
In the military we train iron sights first then when you become proficient you move on to optics.
Follow what has been said by the previous folks. There’s a lot of trigger time in this place👍
 
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Welcome from N.N. FLA. I am currently shooting my RDS equipped handguns with a 12 yard zero. The indoor pistol range I belong to is 15 yards deep. This zero allows me to hit 3.5" targets from 7 to 15 yds fairly consistently. We also have an indoor 25 yard pistol/rifle range, I don't shoot that side because I can barely see the target from 25. LOL
 
Short answer : Fifteen -ish yards zero extends the zone of requiring negligible to none thought about trajectory out to 25 -ish yards .

Major improvement of POA / POl from 10 to 25 yards , with negligible compromise at 0 to 7 yards .
 
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