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If you read some instructors who sample the students - even though the student doesnt' remember using the sights, it doesn't mean they're not using them. Some instructors have conducted experiments on a square range and during FOF classes - giving students guns with sights, and guns without any sights. During stress drills - the students with sights on the guns score more, and better hits with the sighted guns. You will subconsciously use your sights - even if it's just the front sight being somewhere in the picture - you will cue onto that aiming point. Any time the gun is up in your visual plane, you will use your sights. If the gun is out of your visual plane, true point shooting using a body index is what you'll wind up doing. I've practiced point shooting, sighted shooting - and in a pinch at close range using the slide as your sight will work on a man sized target inside of 10 yards. You may not get COM hits, but you'll get hits.
As for Big Dots not being accurate - love him or hate him - James Yeager has done a good job of disproving this - scoring accurate hits at 100 yards and beyond, even upside down. Using the big dots, not the standard dot. If you want more precision, you can go with the standard dot - but at distance the top of the dot becomes your aiming point. Close in - put the golf ball on the target and pull the trigger - likeyou would with a red dot.
As for Big Dots not being accurate - love him or hate him - James Yeager has done a good job of disproving this - scoring accurate hits at 100 yards and beyond, even upside down. Using the big dots, not the standard dot. If you want more precision, you can go with the standard dot - but at distance the top of the dot becomes your aiming point. Close in - put the golf ball on the target and pull the trigger - likeyou would with a red dot.