Glock 17 gen 4

Yep -

Glock sights suck - just like M&P's sights .....

But how much time do ya really spend looking through them? It's not like a rifle were you're spending waaaaaay more time composing your sight picture - a pistol is more of a 'line up your posts and pull the trigger' deal.

Night sights are far superior - but can put you in the hole $150+ (think Trijicon) - and then you have the hassle of getting off the old ones (arhhhhhhhh!......).

Something to think about.

My two cents ....
 
R1_Raven said:
hey guys im pretty new to the glock world.... should i go with a FIXED sights, Adjustable sights or the Nights sights?

or it's just overskill to go with an ajustable or a night sights ?!?!
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I have two of them, one with Trijicon night sights, one with the stock glock fixed sights. If your firearm is in any way intended as a self defense firearm, then I would strongly advise after market metal night sights. If your firearm is intended for competition, then I like the stock fixed sights as the bright white markings show up very well in my field of vision. It really depends on what you intend to use it for, but don't get caught up in the hysteria about bad Glock factory sights. They are cheap plastic, but generally you won't be carrying the gun into battle, so who cares.

That being said, if the plastic sights on my one gun fail, I have the backup gun to switch to during competition.
 
my_2_cents said:
I have two of them, one with Trijicon night sights, one with the stock glock fixed sights. If your firearm is in any way intended as a self defense firearm, then I would strongly advise after market metal night sights. If your firearm is intended for competition, then I like the stock fixed sights as the bright white markings show up very well in my field of vision. It really depends on what you intend to use it for, but don't get caught up in the hysteria about bad Glock factory sights. They are cheap plastic, but generally you won't be carrying the gun into battle, so who cares.

That being said, if the plastic sights on my one gun fail, I have the backup gun to switch to during competition.
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What is this "self defense" firearm you speak of ? Tell me more please. :stirthepot2:
 
padawan said:
What is this "self defense" firearm you speak of ? Tell me more please. :stirthepot2:
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Well, I bought Glock with the night sights and exactly the same trigger configuration as my duty pistol...which I'm carrying for self and general public defense.
I guess...that in a sense my personal pistol duplicates this purpose.
Yet I may be wrong.
 
padawan said:
What is this "self defense" firearm you speak of ? Tell me more please. :stirthepot2:
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Of course what I should have said was that if the firearm was in any way intended to be used in a tacticool recreation of a potential self defense incident that is only seen in the movies, then it definitely needs night sights. We all know that firearms in Canada cannot be used for self defense.
 
abbynormal said:
Yep -

Glock sights suck - just like M&P's sights .....

But how much time do ya really spend looking through them? It's not like a rifle were you're spending waaaaaay more time composing your sight picture - a pistol is more of a 'line up your posts and pull the trigger' deal.

Night sights are far superior - but can put you in the hole $150+ (think Trijicon) - and then you have the hassle of getting off the old ones (arhhhhhhhh!......).

Something to think about.

My two cents ....
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Glad you cleared that up for me - except of course that stock Glock fixed sights are plastic and will in due time react to holster use by diminishing in size until they are of no use what so ever, we won't even get into the 'dot in the box' bull
 
enefgee said:
Glad you cleared that up for me - except of course that stock Glock fixed sights are plastic and will in due time react to holster use by diminishing in size until they are of no use what so ever, we won't even get into the 'dot in the box' bull
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Exactly: They are usable in the short to medium term. And the stock M&P sights are much better than the stock Glock sights.
 
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