Fiber Optic Front Sights

Leo M

Leo M

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I see them on more and more factory offerings. I have always liked a good crisp sight picture not preferring white dots. Just wondering if people like these?
 
I shoot bullseye indoors with an illuminated target and the shooter in a darkish area. The shooter can turn on their light if they wish. How would they be in this situation? If it is very low light do you get a good square image of the front sight? Sorry, I have never handled one of these, just doing some research before a possible purchase.
 
The fiber requires light to go through it. Without light it will be pretty dim. You might want to get tru glo fiber optic night sights if your worried it's too dark at your range.
 
fo sights don't work very well for bulls eye , you see the round fo outlined by a light black square . you may find some use for them on the issf rapid fire target , outdoors or with a well lit port . they are great for action shooting .
 
Leo M said:
I shoot bullseye indoors with an illuminated target and the shooter in a darkish area. The shooter can turn on their light if they wish. How would they be in this situation? If it is very low light do you get a good square image of the front sight? Sorry, I have never handled one of these, just doing some research before a possible purchase.
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They are more like a bead sight then a square sight.
 
My Shadow is great for action shooting, but they are nothing special in low light. If using a holster you DO need to make sure you have spares on hand and know how to replace, as they sometimes get damaged during the draw or reholstering!
 
nada said:
fo sights don't work very well for bulls eye , you see the round fo outlined by a light black square . you may find some use for them on the issf rapid fire target , outdoors or with a well lit port . they are great for action shooting .
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Exactly.

Zero advantage for bullseye shooting.
 
outdoors i find FO to be bright, fast and easy to shoot with, but they are not bullseye sights. For precision shooting, stick to a partridge style sight in matte black but if you do IPSC or IDPA...they rock, especially as your eye's get older.
 
I've got a variety of painted and fiber optic sights. In conditions where the gun is out in the sun the fiber optic really jumps out and makes it easy to get a sight picture quickly. Paint isn't bad but doesn't jump like the FO.

From bright shade it becomes a wash. And finally from a darker shade and with the target area lit up brightly basic black works best.

In any event the key advantage is for speed of sight picture setup. So it's more about action shooting.

For bullseye I don't really find that having a FO front helps or hinders. But I do find that a solid painted rear face hinders me from getting a really solid sight picture. The paint colour makes it tougher to get equal amounts of light on the sides. And depending on the contrast of the sight to the target can even make it harder to even up the blade's top with the flat upper of the notch.

As a result I've taken the paint off the painted sights and gone for basic black. It works equally well in almost all conditions.

For cases where there's a black blade with a white dot I leave that on the front blade. The white dot still leaves me a nice black outline around it. But if there's white dots or U likes on the rear sight I blacken those. I have simply found that more than the one dot makes things confusing for fast sight pictures in action shooting.

If I were in the US and carried I can see where the white dots would actually help. In darker situations where there's little or no contrast between the black sights and the target area lining up the front white dot or TruGlo between the two rear dots or TruGlo spots would make for a much faster sighting picture.
 
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