Very nice. I believe your deck and fence need a power wash just as much as mine does! 
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Hey sorry I haven’t responded sooner, thank you for doing this Harvey.
That’s not horrible. I guess it really comes down to training and getting use to it. I could either get flips and pray that I have time in a home-defense situation to flip them up if my dot fails or train with an absolute cowitness and get proficient with it. A gun is only as good as you train with, so I’m guessing this would be the same.
I really like my Swampfox. I was so excited to finally have a day off to go shoot with a buddy of mine that I dropped it on my garage floor while I was mounting it and it was still good to go. Granted I got it to land on my shoe before it hit the floor but still. I had great groups when I went to zero it and got it done quickly. I’m very happy with it and might get a 45-degree mount and another Liberator 2 for my 16" that currently has a Vortex 1-6 mounted for primary sight.
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If actively engaged in self defense I personally would not waste time flipping sights up. I suggest it is a good idea to periodically train without sights at home self defense distances to figure out what dead red dot technique works best for you.
The two I suggest is either sighting down the side of the barrel, or sighting the front of the barrel thru the dead red dot sight. The first technique will get you sighted in vertically, but not so much horizontally. The second technique is just the opposite and you will be shooting a bit higher than where you are aiming. That’s why it is best to experiment at the range to see what works best for you.
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I like Swampfox as their US based support is pretty responsive and as you can see their marketing/brand guy interacts pretty freely with users. They fill a good “bang for the buck” niche.
As for your specific use-case, as @Gary_H and a few others have mentioned, you can train to around a red-dot failure if that is one of your primary concerns. At close distances (like in a HD situation) the “tube” itself helps aim, your natural pointing helps aim, and (oft forgotten) with a WML the center of the light will roughly correlate to where the round lands. Next time you’re at the range, just turn off the dot and see how well you can/can’t hit a target at expected ranges.
At extended distances, you probably have time to flip up your sights.
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