Red or Green Fiber Optic Rod

[nighthawk]

I recently lost my red fibre optic rod on my front sight and could only find a green replacement. I am kind of liking the green colour better than the red. However, I've only used it once in competition and was wondering if you have any positive or negative experience with either colour rod? I am more concerned about seeing the 'dot' on a shady day or when the sun is right in front of my face.

 

[Juster]

In bright light, the human eye is more sensitive to greenish yellow light, in darker conditions greenish blue. So green is easier for the eye to detect.

 

[mrclean]

And try a red tinted lense with the green FO
For outdoors.

 

[bigi]

Based on the light spectrum, green has the widest light band and red the shortest. That's why green will look brighter in poor light conditions. Most of my friends use green but sometimes personal preference wins. One other thing, most IPSC targets work with green but if you use other colored targets red may be better.

 

[wasrupzuk]

Used both, either work.
At my range I find red is better...
Especially the one with the battery

 

[StoneHorse]

I see green better (brighter) but I have a red/green colour deficiency so that may have something to do with it.

 

[silverfoxdj]

I have a red on my CZ and it seems better at the indoor range than my Green sites on my Glock

 

[TRaTSeRiF]

I run red outdoors, green indoors. Trivial to swap out. All you need are sidecutters and a lighter.

 

[Maverik187]

I run green. Seem to pick it up a lot faster than red.

 

[Phat Eagle]

As stated, green is easier to see... It's biology at work.

 

[Can-down]

Depends on the color sensing cones of your eye. We all see things differently. Trying the different color options personally is the only way to choose the best

I prefer red or orange over green.

 

[Viper26]

Green against the background of an IPSC target works well for me.

 

[Freedom Ventures]

Tried for years to shoot a F/O front sight. Turned out I couldn't do it with a red one; it had to be green.

Seems many years of shooting electronic red-dot sights ingrained on me that if I saw a red dot on the target; squeeze the trigger - regardless of where the dot was.
(and it needed to be inside the rear notch...)

Shooting Green now - works great!!!

 

[mebiuspower]

Not a question.

 

[RePete]

Been using green for 10 years.

 

[UR2X3M4ME]

I use green for indoor range and red for outside range on my IPSC gun.

 

[kgwalsh12]

I'm screwed either way, as I'm red-green colour blind!!! Lol

 

[RePete]

I'm screwed either way, as I'm red-green colour blind!!! Lol

You can get yellow too.

 

[nighthawk]

Italian has the orange but in the wrong size. Orange looked good though in the light.

It seems like green is flexible and works. It is easy to swap them out but I am kind of leaning towards keeping the green. I recently bought the red finer optic rods, but if the green works better for me, I will get more of those.

Thanks for all the feedback.

 

[CeeZer]

I tried red, green, orange, yellow, blue.
Out of all, green is the best for me, red is distant second.
It happens human eye is most sensitive to green color too, just do some reading on this color sensitivity.