Fellas,

Thanks for the reply and the info. Not to be pedantic, but no one has answered the basic question though.... I get that they work, I get that people like them, I see the advantage, etc. etc.

I just dont see "how" they work. Lemme splain.

With iron sight you line up your front and rear sights thus aligning your rifle. The distance between the fron and rear sights, the "sight radius" essentially creates a vector that aligns the barrel.

With a conventional glass scope (tube with multiple lenses) you have essentially the same thing as the sight radius with iron sights because if you miss-align your line of sight with the tube of the scope, then you cant see through it.

But a reflex is a dot on a single plane. If I miss align my line of sight enough while looking at it (like 60 or 70 degrees to the side) eventually I can no longer see the dot. But up to that point I still can, which means my point of aim "should be" off.

This is what I don't get....

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