We moved back in January. I had placed the Performance Center Shield Plus into the cold safe and had been carrying the standard Shield Plus. The difference between them, other than the fact that the Performance Center has the ported barrel and slide, is the PC pistol came with a Crimson Trace microdot sight on it.
When I went to do the annual run through on the cold safe, I discovered that the microdot wasn’t working. No sweat, just a battery change. After changing the battery, the microdot still didn’t work. Luckily, I had another in storage that I had been planning on putting on one of the standard Shield Pluses, but hadn’t yet. So I decided to swap out the CT microdot on the PC Shield Plus.
The sight that I put on it is a Holosun 507K with the Green combo reticle. I like the green better than the red, because it is just more visible of a color for me. YMMV. The only problem is that Holosun’s K series of sights is designed to fit on handguns that have a two post mount, but the Shield Plus has a 4 post mount. This requires that you have an adaptor plate like this one between the sight and the slide. I chose the Aluminum version, and it cost $36.
The reticle looks nice, and you can choose brightness level as well as circle, dot, or both as your reticle. They are very eye-catching, which is what you want in a reticle.
I use the circle without the dot. My split times are faster like that, but you give up a small bit of accuracy for that extra speed. It doesn’t seem to matter much with my shooting. Again, YMMV.
4 Comments
Curtis · November 5, 2024 at 7:51 am
You need to train your eyes to shoot target focused and not dot focused. You are likely used to front sight focus. That is a big difference with a dpt. Most people that shoot a dot well end up going to the basic dot reticle because the circle dot draws the eye too much. Try shooting a few hundred rounds with painters tape over the front of the optic. If you are shooting two eyes open and focused on the target, you should still pick it up fine. If you close an eye or focus on the dot, the dot or target will start dissapearing.
Birdog357 · November 5, 2024 at 8:10 am
I run a Shield Plus daily. It’s got an optics cut, and I’d love to get a sight, but my job would destroy an open sight…It’s too bad because they really are a game changer.
Pat H. Bowman · November 5, 2024 at 8:32 am
I’m a big fan of the 507K. Been running it on my EDC for over 2 years now. I wear it OWB around the homestead all day, every day. A good bit of the finish is worn off and some of the edges have even started rounding over, but it still holds zero. Mine is red because at the time, I didn’t want to spend another $100 to get the green. Today, I’d buy green, though the red is fine. I like the circle dot personally. I have a Delta Point Pro on my IDPA gun, and that one had to go back to the factory after about 2 years. Still beating up on my 507K and it still keeps on shining.
Elrod · November 5, 2024 at 9:54 am
It might be a little too big for the Shield (it’ll still fit because it uses the same 507 footprint the 507K does), but take a look at the 507Comp (mine’s on a Sig XTEN). It has a larger “viewing window” so it’s a little faster (at least for my eyes) but the big thing is you have the reticle choice: 2 MOA dot with: 8 MOA circle, 20 MOA circle, 32 MOA circle, and each of the circles without the dot. The 8 MOA circle with the dot makes what looks like a giant 8 MOA dot, but the dot / 20 MOA circle, at least for me, is perfect – the circle is very fast to acquire, and the dot is there if high precision is needed. (My smaller guns (like the Hellcat backup) all carry the same – 407Ks in green; those damn dots are addictive, I tell, ya.)
Transitioning to an RDS (actually, all mine are green) was interesting – a half century of “front sight, front sight, front sight” made me focus on the dot, when the right thing to do is focus on the target and superimpose the dot / circle on it. Took a while, but now I’d *almost* like to go back On The Street with it.
I’ve learned to carry a LensPen (retractable Leupold) to keep the window dust and dirt free because it does collect crap riding in the holster all day.
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