IMHO, the way to say it is, If you don't have time for sights, then it doesn't matter, and if you do have time for sights, it's a blessing with old eyes like ours.

With enough training many have been able to "find the dot" much faster than with traditional sights. I have heard champion shooters explain it as, You have a target, a front sight and a rear sight to line up, and all at different focal lengths. If you change that to 1 "dot" and a target both at the same focal length, you are ahead of the game. Those that say, it takes to long "to find the dot" Haven't spent enough time using one.

in actual practice, if you can forget the dot is on the gun, you would bring up the gun as you always have with normal sights, and the dot has to be right there, the target in relationship to the barrel doesn't change. Assuming all sights ("dot" and iron) are properly adjusted, they all have to align in the same position. So how can it be any different? The problem is when people (including myself) bring up the gun looking at the little window and hunting around for the dot...it's just practice.

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