HIVIZ FASTDOT: Green Means Go

But what I've got here on this PD 10 is half of the fast dot system from Hi Vis. Now they're a sponsor of the 2024 personal events network training tour. And this is a site that I first got to see probably about nine months ago in 2023. Before it was released to the public. We had it set up then more traditionally on top of a glock firearm and it was of course set up with the front and rear site together.

You notice I only have the rear site on this particular pistol. Why? Because I've been expecting, experimenting with the fast dot system and trying to see what really makes it so fast and how can I possibly make it even faster? At least for me personally. Now, what I have found is that this idea of green means go is really important as I've introduced different people to these sites and on the tour, actual real students and real classes who aren't using this site set up.

And I've given them the one with the front site which is red and the rear site which is green. I have found myself really focusing on this site idea that green means go. Now when I first did the video on the fast dot system, I was talking about how the red of course means stop. If you can see the red of the front site, that means you're not aligned very well. But taking in the idea that what this is really doing is because of the lens at the back of this bright green fiber optic on the rear site, it's making sure that this gun is aligned with my line of sight, that lens is perpendicular to my primary eye, my dominant eye, my strong eye, and what that means is I'm only seeing green when it's time to go and it almost doesn't matter that I'm seeing red.

So absolutely red means stop, I wouldn't want to shoot. But if I know that green means go, do I even need the front sight. Now, I'm not suggesting that you would set this up for defensive use without the front sight. But what we're doing here is proving a theory and what I'm seeing and I'll kind of set this up for the camera. That's, that's on the other side of me relative to the target.

The idea that you should be able to see these little flashes of green from that camera angle we're gonna see. Sometimes there's a bright green, sometimes a little bit of green and sometimes there's no green at all. And that's really what you're gonna see when you drive this gun out. Now, it's all been said by many, many people for a long time. The idea that the sites verify your alignment, it's your extension into a shooting position, especially if you're teaching intuitive defensive shooting.

Like I do, if you're using kinesthetic alignment as your primary method of aligning the gun, then all the sites are going to do is confirm that you've got your alignment much like a red dot I can keep my eyes focused on the target drive out with this fast dot And if I see green, well, green means go now, I've got rounds in here. I've got my eyes and ears on. Let's take a look at what I'm talking about. Both eyes open, focused on the target, drive the gun out. When I see green, I go, when I go and I see a shot show up in the high center chest.

I know that I'm getting what I want and that's what I want out of close quarters defensive sites. Normally, we would focus on a blacked out rear site because I don't want the distraction of anything back here in this plane when I'm focused on a front site like a big square that comes on the PD 10 with a wide rear notch. In this case, I'm not worried about the front side at all. I'm worried about green means go on the back side. And when I see that I know that I can fire shots and I can fire shots very, very rapidly.

Now, of course, just like I talked about in our original short term introduction to what the fast dot is, this is not a very high precision set of target sites. So I'm not going to be taking head shots out at 50 yards. Body shots at 50 yards may be something right at the edge of what I can do. But primarily, you know, the PD 10 is designed as a personal defense gun. It's a close quarters gun.

And that idea of a fast dot Coming out green means go right into the chest right where I want it. Could I take a head shot here? Yeah, I probably can get up here on the head. Green means good and I can get a shot a little bit above that triangle, but I'm still right there right in a defensive situation. Primarily multiple rounds delivered to the high center chest with the high viz.

Fast. Do green means go, you're gonna get that at plausible defensive shooting distances. Yeah.