How to Sight In a Red Dot on a Pistol in Less than 5 Minutes

Simple, to the point video! The illustrations of the red dot moving to the iron sights helps to see what you are thinking. Thanks.

CrystalLake below has it absolutely right. NEVER zero a RDS by “co-witness” to iron sights. Co-witness means you’re able to see and use your irons through the RDS window as backup if/when your RDS fails. It does NOT mean your site picture should put your RDS dot on the iron front site when shooting. Irons and RDS are two completely different & separate sights. ALWAYS zero by adjusting the point of impact of your group to the point of aim of your RDS with the dot centered in the window. Once zeroed this way the point of impact of your round will then be wherever you place the dot.

Best example I've seen. Great stuff!!!

Co-witnessing ur rds to ur irons aka slaving ur red dot to ur irons isn’t the way to go… if ur doing that then what’s the point in paying for a red dot?? Irons and ur red dot are two separate sights therefore ur red dot is primary and ur irons are the back ups.. they co-witness thru the glass for when the optic fails or gets damaged.. sight ur dot to the point of impact by its self not to ur irons!!!

Out of 10 red dot adjustment videos this by far is the best one! I needed to see examples of where your red dot was and you provided it in this video. Thank you brother!👊🏾💯👊🏽

Excellent advice given. This is exactly how I sight in my red dot sight with co-wittnes iron sights.

Thanks for the break down very good easy to understand.

You hardly ever want to lollipop a red dot on a pistol like you would a rifle. Tons of great information out there as to why.

The first 5 shot group is the definition of precise

Thank you this was so helpful!!

THANK YOU!!! Perfect!

Great video Sir! 👍🏻

Not understanding the back and forth comments on “ Co-witnessing”…. Wouldn’t it completely depend on the height of your iron sights? The gun he is setting up has very high sights with the front sight already close to his red dot position and seems easy to co-witness. I’m setting up a Springfield XDM and the sights are much lower. The amount of change in the red dot position to get it to align with the front sight would be extreme. It seems gun or at least sight specific ( note not attempting to argue the usefulness of “Co witnessing” just if you can do it)

This is a very good optic at a good price point

When sighting in I guess I don't need a bench rest. Great video,

man, I dont know if I would want my irons right in with my dot cluttering things up, but I am not an experienced red dot user at all, as in mine is coming in thursday and I have never used one lol

...days....weeks.....months later.... i just was leared more in minutes quick... versus so much time being lost.... ....thank you fella...yep....!!!

I have the hardest time understanding how to sight in. Especially with irons. I mean with irons am I supposed to find the amount of yards it's already sighted in at? And if it's shooting to the left or right how do you sight that in?

If your iron sights are dead on... this is a great starting point... After I slave my dot to the irons.. then I go back and adjust to point of impact... it is simply a good way to get on paper..then tune to your eyes!!

which way did you turn your elevation adjustment? clockwise or counter clockwise. I have yet to find a video that says how to sight in red dot with that person showing up close of the actual adjustment and which way they turned those adjustment screws