I haven't competed since the 90's but I still enjoy shooting my revolvers with open sights. Putting optics on a revolver never appeared to me since it would destroy my Dirty Harry / Matt Dillion vicarious experience of shooting revolvers. 

Also unappealing to me is using one of those Merit Optical Attachments to your glasses even though they work. Looking like an optometrist's is not my idea of a Dirty Harry or Matt Dillion imagine either. 

Forever I've used NRA regulation black bull targets such as the B16 for 25-yard Slow Fire and others for other designated distances. I'm of the persuasion that if you don't measure your performance, you can improve it. Thus, a scoring target gives me the opportunity to do that quite nicely and efficiently to track my performance.
The problem is that these 75-year-old eyeballs are having a lot of trouble discerning the front sight against this target background, even with the conventional, 6 o'clock hold. I've always favorited a center hold but that's another story.
One of the "sometimes" nice things about going to the range is to pick up new ideas and approaches. Well, I ran into an old fart like me, and he was using these ez2ctargets, Style 12, 25-yard Slow Fire Pistol targets that have an orange bull (7 ring) with a white 10 ring. He gave me a few and I tried them. Wow, I could use a center hold and see the front sight such better. The scoring rings are slightly larger than an NRA regulation target but close enough for practice purposes and tracking performance.
So, you old guys out there that still like to shoot pistol with open sights may want to give them a try if you're like me with ageing eyeballs and like to shoot a scoring target.





Forever I've used NRA regulation black bull targets such as the B16 for 25-yard Slow Fire and others for other designated distances. I'm of the persuasion that if you don't measure your performance, you can improve it. Thus, a scoring target gives me the opportunity to do that quite nicely and efficiently to track my performance.
The problem is that these 75-year-old eyeballs are having a lot of trouble discerning the front sight against this target background, even with the conventional, 6 o'clock hold. I've always favorited a center hold but that's another story.
One of the "sometimes" nice things about going to the range is to pick up new ideas and approaches. Well, I ran into an old fart like me, and he was using these ez2ctargets, Style 12, 25-yard Slow Fire Pistol targets that have an orange bull (7 ring) with a white 10 ring. He gave me a few and I tried them. Wow, I could use a center hold and see the front sight such better. The scoring rings are slightly larger than an NRA regulation target but close enough for practice purposes and tracking performance.
So, you old guys out there that still like to shoot pistol with open sights may want to give them a try if you're like me with ageing eyeballs and like to shoot a scoring target.