Night Sights...what are you using?

I've only ever owned Trijicons, and I like 'em. Shot a couple of guns with other night sights, but still prefer the T's. I just bought a new Gen4 Glock 22, and I like the Trijicons enough to pay an extra $100 to have them installed by the dealer, before shipping the gun to me.
 
I was looking at the HDs...they seem to be very effective at allowing for faster target acquisition, with the larger, bright front sight. They also seem taller than the standard Trijicons...and since the rear sight doesn't have the white outline around the dots, they seem to be more like a one-dot set up when shooting in a well-lit or bright setting.

Am I on target with this, or am I way off? Again, I'm only gathering this from pics that I have seen, and not from any actual experiences with the HDs.
 
Night sights are completely useless if you can't see what you're aiming. Have you actually tried shooting in low light? I don't mean turning off the lights in your house. Tritium don't light up unless it's 100% dark in which case you can't shoot at anything anyways.
 
mh434 said:
I've only ever owned Trijicons, and I like 'em. Shot a couple of guns with other night sights, but still prefer the T's. I just bought a new Gen4 Glock 22, and I like the Trijicons enough to pay an extra $100 to have them installed by the dealer, before shipping the gun to me.
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Same here I tried others and liked them for their sharpness but shoot the Trijicon for my Glock 17 better not sure why.. Used a buddys Glock same model same ammo same targets and shot worse, he bought the Trijicon the next week from Basspro.
 
Have you looked at the Truglo fibre optic / tritium combination sights? Best of both worlds for day & night.
 
I've become a huge fan of the Ameriglo i-Dot Pro set up - orange outlined tritium front and plain serrated black rear. I have found over the years that NS are far less essential front and back than just the front. The idea is not super-precise shot placement but to be able to confirm that the front sight is indexed on the threat. If something is close enough for you to identify as a threat in low light you can get rounds into it if you can get the front sight on to it - generalization.

These aren't target sights, they're for shooting meat...
 
mebiuspower said:
Night sights are completely useless if you can't see what you're aiming. Have you actually tried shooting in low light? I don't mean turning off the lights in your house. Tritium don't light up unless it's 100% dark in which case you can't shoot at anything anyways.
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Really? The ones I've had must be really special ones.

They're bright & visible, from bright sunlight to absolute darkness & everything in between. BTW, they don't "light up" in darkness - they emit light 24/7, losing around 1/2 their brightness after 12 years. I, for one, have shot several times in low light, and near full-darkness, with the Trijicons. The sights are clearly visible, yet not bright enough to adversely affect your night vision - to the extent that target acquisition & identification is your only concern, not lining up your sights.
 
strider007 said:
I was looking at the HDs...they seem to be very effective at allowing for faster target acquisition, with the larger, bright front sight. They also seem taller than the standard Trijicons...and since the rear sight doesn't have the white outline around the dots, they seem to be more like a one-dot set up when shooting in a well-lit or bright setting.

Am I on target with this, or am I way off? Again, I'm only gathering this from pics that I have seen, and not from any actual experiences with the HDs.
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i find that to be true, faster acquisition and such. they seem to be very tough and well built, but they are a bit taller. i don't find that it affects accuracy though, just have to practice! i prefer the orange outline over the yellow as the yellow seems to get washed out a bit easier under certain lighting conditions. still nice though! a nice FO set would probably be great to. you definitely do notice the front sight more when in well-lit areas, but the other dots are there to so it still is a fairly standard 3-dot set up in that regard. i find mine will start glowing in the absence of stronger light
 
go_DWI said:
i find that to be true, faster acquisition and such. they seem to be very tough and well built, but they are a bit taller. i don't find that it affects accuracy though, just have to practice! i prefer the orange outline over the yellow as the yellow seems to get washed out a bit easier under certain lighting conditions. still nice though! a nice FO set would probably be great to. you definitely do notice the front sight more when in well-lit areas, but the other dots are there to so it still is a fairly standard 3-dot set up in that regard. i find mine will start glowing in the absence of stronger light
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Good point about the colour of the front dot...I was actually thinking about which of the two colours would always be more visible in various lighting, and against different target backgrounds.

Where did you buy yours from?
 
I have Truglo TFO's on my Glock and they are great. Very quick acquisition and very visible in light or dark.
 
All things fail. Lights will help You to identify the target. Night sights won't.
Without this little and inconvenient step You can't shoot at anything anyway.
Not to mention that You probably won't be using your sights when the SHTF.
Not to mention that You probably won't need any sights to hit your target at 3-5 yards (or across the room distance).
 
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I run Xs big dots.

Someone more btdt than me said that the trijicon ns, when in low light, could be misaligned such that the two rear dots would align with the front dot which would actually be offset to the right or left... Oops.
 
Nestor said:
All things fail. Lights will help You to identify the target. Night sights won't.
Without this little and inconvenient step You can't shoot at anything anyway.
Not to mention that You probably won't be using your sights when the SHTF.
Not to mention that You probably won't need any sights to hit your target at 3-5 yards (or across the room distance).
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Well aware of the benefits and downfalls to nightsights. Not all low light or no light situations require a light to identify a target/threat. Nightsights are there to aid in acquiring the sights not the target/threat. Night sights aid the shooter with or without adequate ambient light. A mounted light does not.




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