Posted: 2/23/2009 6:38:13 PM EDT
Hey guys/gals. I built a Fastfire mount for my Open Gun and I'm looking for feedback. Any comments are welcome.
I like the Fastfire a lot so far. This will be my first year with it. Last year I used a C-More and an Optima on this 9 Open gun late in the season. I couldn't get use to the Optima's poor lense and dot so I had to make my own mount. The mount in the pic is a prototype that I'll probably paint black. Newer version will have more meat at the mounting holes as well as other refinements. Thanks, Nick |
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How does the smaller sight picture effect your speed? I shoot faster than I should no matter what's in the lense 
Once you get use to the smaller(than C-More) sight it gets to the point where if the target is in the lense and you don't see the dot you find yourself firing anyways and 99% of the time the hit is there(closer range of course). Of course the previous sentence was last year when I was using an Optima which has a piss poor plastic lense and blurry orange dot that is hard to see. This year I predict things will be much easier with the Fastfire and it's much clearer/slightly wider lense and sharper redder dot. I still wish they were under $160. March 7th is the first scheduled outdoor match so I should get a decent picture of daylight performance of the sight. Last year I used this Fastfire on my Open shotgun and it worked pretty good and held zero better than I thought. Nick |
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Not bad, but I would say that if you are going to run with one of the small dots on a full house open gun, unless you have hybrid ports, I'd mount the dot to where it sits forward of the ejection port. Rich The back edge of the sight is just above the hood of the chamber so the ejection port has nothing above it when the slide is cycled. Ejection issues are a non-issue with this type of mount. I get a little powder residue on the center of the mount but that's about it. Nick |
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C-More hole pattern on the frame, not for the dot. I have an extra JPoint and a Docter laying around. I'd use this on my steel gun. Rich Sorry Rich, Not thinkin straight  . The pattern for the mount is 3/8" spacing so you could use 2 screws. It think Arrendondo makes a mount that uses the C-More 3/4" spacing and fits both those sights.
Nick |