Quote Originally Posted by Joelski View Post
What I meant to say was....

A buddy of mine has a lead sled setup I can use to root the pistol, then I intend to fine tune the iron sights as close to perfect as possible, then move the dot to just resting on top of the front sight.

That, or I can boresight the dot separately. That might actually cut out a little bit of fiddling, however small.

Which would you guys do? Starting to feel like I'm overthinking this!
I'm an expert in over thinking.

Don't try to use irons as a reference point other than maybe getting it on paper.

Once you get to that point basically pretend that you don't have irons at all. What I did is use a shooting bag or something to steady the gun. With the dot aim for a small point like an inch big or something like that and slowly fire a controlled shot. Figure out how many clicks up/down left/right and adjust from there.

Basically in my limited experience trying to slave the dot to the irons or even trying to use it as a reference point beyond the basic stuff complicates things. Those two sighting systems are on different planes so other than just a "rough idea", that in my opinion is about as far as you should go with that.

That said I'm here learning just like everyone else, albeit maybe a little bit more.