This week on TFB’s Wheelgun Wednesday, we’ll take a look at another D&L Sports upgrade, Revolver Red Dot Mounts. If you’ve been tracking my recent Wheelgun Wednesday content, you would probably think I’m completely geeking out on the revolver red dot concept, but I think it’s just a natural trend that I happen to be reporting on. Semi-auto pistols and rifles have sported red dot sights for some time, and it’s finally becoming more commonplace to see red dot sights atop wheelguns. Let’s take a look at Dave Lauck’s solution for revolver red dot mounts.

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Dave Lauck at D&L Sports is no stranger to optimizing revolvers for hunting and self-defense, and in the vein of revolver red dot mounts, he has two options for achieving the new sight picture, which is quoted from his website:

There are two styles of D&L revolver optic mounts. Both are machined from a single block of steel for ultra durability. Both styles slide into the top strap of K, L, N, X frame S&W revolvers with adjustable sights and a three hole screw pattern already drilled by the factory. (Older revolvers will need the three hole screw pattern drilled and tapped into place.) One style of D&L mount is for red dot optics with the RMR / SRO footprints. This mount has integral iron sights which can co-witness through the RMR / SRO windows. The other style for D&L mount is a more conventional heavy duty rear D&L sight, but with an integral picatinny rail machined as part of the sight tang. This style of optic mount is best suited to red dot sights, such as the Aimpoint Micro, or other optics that attach to a picatinny base. The rear iron sight on this mount uses a front revolver sight mounted at the front end of the barrel. This mount does not co-witness the iron and optic sights, but the optic can quick detach and the rear iron sight, which is an integral part of the mount, can then be used with your barrel mounted front sight. This allows for the longest possible sight radius.

Image credit: D&L Sports

If you recall the fixed iron sights from D&L Sports, Mr. Lauck offers the option of including night sight vials, which is also an option for the revolver red dot mounts. The installation instructions on the website state how to first zero the backup iron sights on the one-piece red dot mount, after which he can add night sights to any customers that want those included on their mount.

Image credit: D&L Sports

Image credit: D&L Sports

Red dot mounts for revolvers have been available for a little while now, but this one-piece mount offering from D&L Sports is the only one I’ve seen that incorporates iron sights to co-witness through a red dot optic. I’m one of those guys that always prefers to have irons to revert to if something went wrong with the optic, but I know some people would be fine without the irons. Which side of that argument do you fall on?

Image credit: D&L Sports

D&L Sports has some more installation and zeroing information on their Revolver Red Dot Mounts page HERE, or you can visit DLSports.com to see all of the other products and services they offer. The red dot mounts cost $155. What do you think about the new Revolver Red Dot Mounts? Which optic and revolver would you pair up?