re: Recommend a red dot for a Gen 5 Glock 17

FYI, Glock g17 gen 5 mos with fcs should be out in October. Academy has them on their site already.

I shoot my 1911's and Sigs just fine...

This one came outta the box with the rear sight misaligned...just pisses me off.

We have a friendly almost IPSC style competition at the range a couple times a month and one of the guys shooting has added an optic to his M&P and it's deadly accurate...I have no intention on modding my 1911's, so I figured I'd try an optic to fix the rear sight issue(in lieu of having to get the rear sight aligned that should have never been that way in the first place.

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If putting an optic on (any grade)and a cheaper mount can get me interested in the gun, then I may just reinvest in doing it the right way. But if I dump the gun, I'll still have a possibly good optic to put on another pistol.

no need to get all high and mighty in your post "Bro"

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Wasn't trying to be a dick. Was just trying to say if you just want to run a dovetail mount as an experiment or a fun gun then you might as well save some money and get one of the cheaper optic options too. Completely understand wanting to have a good optic for other projects too though.

Like I previously said though of the miniature red dots I've used (rmr,vortex, deltapoint, fastfire, docter) the rmr and more specifically the rmr06 has been my favorite.

Yeah it was a pro. It wasn’t that I necessarily disliked it, I just prefer the smaller footprint of the rmr along with the controls and the housing on the rmr is a little more robust. The glass on the leupy is definitely clearer though. (Not that it makes much of a difference in a handgun)

If I remember right the two moa options on the Deltapoint are like a 2.5 and a 7. Out of those two, I’d go with the 2.5. If it seems too small you can always just crank the brightness up. If you can get a deal on the Leupold I’d probably just go with that, I doubt you’d be disappointed with it for what you’re trying to do.

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I feel like most prefer the larger MOA than smaller on a handgun,

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I’m not trying to come across as rude but “I feel like” is hardly a concrete measurement. If you like the larger dot that’s fine and more power to you but there’s not a single reputable instructor I know of that advocates a larger dot. I can regularly bang standard 4” plates at a 100m with a 3.25 dot, at 7.5 your dot is nearly double the size of the target. It’s a lot easier to turn up the brightness to replicate a larger dot than it is to dim it.

At the end of the day it’s up to personal preference. Some really like xs big dot sights...a lot don’t. A smaller aiming point is always preferable in my opinion as long as it doesn’t interfere with your ability to pick up the sight picture.

Yeah buddy, when I go shoot 100m targets the first thing I grab is my pistol.

Saw some Unity Tactical slides at IG and was interested in the optic cut on the back of the slide, and rear sight now in front of the optic. Very interesting.

Look sheepdog, if a 3.25 MOA on your pistol is your thing that's perfectly fine if that's what you like, a lot of people do. I wasn't trying to state concrete facts in my previous post, just my mere arbitrary observation, that's why i prefaced it with "I feel like...". If your one gripe about a 6.5 MOA dot on a pistol is your perceived inability for someone to be able to make a 110yd shot with one, that's asinine. Muh "Capabilities"? Pistols are a secondary weapon system designed for close range work. It makes more sense to set it up for what it is going to be used for 99.99% of the time and not an off chance situation where you're called to make a 110yd shot while maintaining legal use of deadly force and an acceptable liability risk for a miss trying to free hand a ~13 inch drop shot under stress. We get you ARFCOM wanders over here a handful of times a year and it always goes the same way. Fire in hot, post about 30 times and then ghost after you realize we see through your bullshite. Can we just fast forward to the end?

Well frick me...

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Combat Cut using this sight on a Gen5 Glock cannot be performed due to the safety plunger. However, a Race Cut with Forward Dovetail can be performed with this optic.

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This applies to basically any of the good optics made...

I guess if I wanted to go more permanent...I may have to wait and maybe put a Glock mos slide on when they come out...if they'll even sell the slide separately...or an aftermarket slide.

i'm not sure what the race cut with a forward dovetail may be...but it looks like a dovetail mount will just have to do for now.

How hard is it to change the front sight to a tritium suppressor sight?

not that I think I will need the co witnessing for my uses

Yeah as ODP said it’s just talking about the positioning of the optic on the slide. Not a big deal. You just need a cheap
Front sight post tool and some loctite and you can switch your front sight out in like 45 seconds haha.