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nostatus...........a few trains of thought. if you go with a red dot as rickster mentioned you are dependent on batteries. and we know where that goes. spendy and ya always have to have spares. the smaller the better as for weight. i have a crap lil bushnell red dot that uses cr2032 batts in it. not cheap and you have to make sure it is turned off or yer screwed the next time.
now on the other hand for instinctive "point and shoot" the recommendation is a small brass dot on front. very easy to pick up vs 3-dots or any other type of sight for that matter.
rememember the object is to be instinctive. not this crap of lining front/rear sights up and then shooting. usually what happens when yer bobbing weaving trying to line up sights your breath pattern gets out of synch with your bobbing and weaving and your brain and your trigger finger and therefore you miss the shot.
now shooting cans is fine and fun. shooting paper is fine and dandy. shooting paper is better when benched and in a rest for sighting in. but both get real boring real fast once intial site in completed.
now if yer sighted in with one flavor of round and you then proceed to open another box out in the dez and shoot that flavor you are stroking yourself. go back to range. sight in with federal or eley target ammo and then take SAME ammo out to dez and never ever change flavors once site in completed. 36 grs or 40 grains...........big ass difference downrange. especially when yer shooting a 100meters.
now if ya go with an optic you have now entered "unlimited" class. and thats just lak racing cars...........run what cha brung. and when entered into a "unlimited" class ya better be damn good. trust me. these guys take these .22's apart to the firing pin and everythang gets balanced and blueprinted. every round is mic'ed before a match and these guys are deadly accurate!!!! scarey accurate.
my suggestion is to find a smith, who can install a fiber optic style front sight. similar to the ruger mark III 22/45 that i have. tru-glo makes them and you stay in "limited class" and ambient light "fuels" the glo. it aint a nite sight.
the trick with any competitive shooting is being "instinctive" point and shoot. wherever you point that front site yer bullet goes. my springfield stainless .45 fullsize has the lil brass dot on the front installed by my smithy nelson ford(the gunsmith.com) and trust me it works damn good once ya send a boatload of rounds downrange. it becomes second nature after a while.
i never stand or sit there and line up front rear sites unless benched in a sand bag. enter a sunday .22 match and watch the other guys who do this all the time. same applies in big bore classes. point and shoot..........just like pointing your finger at an object.
when you see the "unlimited" class in .22 or big bore shoot you will also have a chance to see what works and what isnt out there. to get to the point of dancing a can/milk jug etc across the dez with any pistole takes alot of practice with a well sighted gun using good ammo that is one with the pistole.
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