Yup... those practical realities have a way of creeping into the equation.

Kinda like me agonizing over holdover with a calculator. Shooting offhand with a 1x red dot at the distances we're talking about, holdover is more of a discussion exercise than practical reality for me. Point-click-ding. I mean... that steel plate at 100yds will never know that my aim might have been an inch off, nor will the plate at 200yds know that I was aiming one tenth of an inch too high. And the plate at 50yds doesn't even give me a special ding for being zero. We don't have a 250yd plate at the club, but the idea that while shooting offhand with a 1x red dot I'm going to adjust my hold two inches.... uh.... that's eyesight skill level bragging rights I simply don't possess.

Now of course a steel plate ain't the same as a bad guy. Still, I doubt I'll hear any center mass complaining from a bad guy.