While shooting the state mandated course of fire, I did each draw with the muzzle elevated slightly to catch the front sight, something I’d taken to doing some years back without pistol-mounted optics. I concluded that visually catching the front sight sooner in the presentation didn’t hurt me any. With the SRO, it was helpful as the dot appeared before the front sight. I had lots of time to make the hits as I just centered the dot. The terrific view and simplicity of aiming gave me time to seriously appreciate the trigger on the Gen5 G19. It’s really good.
The Gen5 series is clearly the most accurate factory Glock 9mm ever. The Trijicon SRO gave me something else: when you’re not visually-focused you have time for a kinesthetic focus and the Gen5 trigger is a joy for a plastic service pistol. Between that trigger and the longer post-ignition dwell time before the gun unlocks, the accuracy is very good.
There was one central cluster in the “Q” target with just a few outriders letting me know that I was still fallible.
I think I may have found the pistol-mounted optic that could get me to switch to that format. Easy to use, standard mounting arrangement, huge field of view and Trijicon-rugged, there’s only one thing not to like: the window projects far enough ahead of the optic body, it interferes with my favorite strong-side IWB holster. It doesn’t seem to have that problem with some AIWB rigs. The company, in the release, notes that the SRO is “ . . . optimized for target and competition shooting.” I found it to be a nice fit on the G19 except for that holster fit issue – and I think it would work fine for service use if the holster matches.
As much as I like it, I still haven’t even tried the automatic brightness mode yet . . .
If you like optics on service pistols or you compete in optics divisions, you need to give this one a look. If you are old, like me, and not yet ready to take the leap, perhaps you should still take a look at the SRO.
- - Rich Grassi
