Two sets of rear sights

[rc_p120]

Why don't people use the same rear sights but mounted on the front of the pistol instead of the usual front 'post' sight. So you look through the rear sights, then look through the front sights and you have a clear sight picture, no front post obstructing you. The front sights can be a high viz colour like orange. And so you look through your sights like a tunnel, instead of lining up a post over your target which obscures it.

Someone explain to me why this is either a genius idea or a horribly stupid one. Cheers!

 

[mmattockx]

If you make them both apertures then that is a typical iron sight target rifle set up. Not sure how it would work with the open sights, though.


Mark

 

[Knuckles Muldoon]

Genius!

 

[Ganderite]

I use this as a front sight on my SKS. For fast shooting, I just center the target in the big ring. For fine shooting, I use the crosshair. I would like to try it on a pistol.

 

[Woodeneye]

I use this as a front sight on my SKS. For fast shooting, I just center the target in the big ring. For fine shooting, I use the crosshair. I would like to try it on a pistol.

Cool, going to get one now

 

[Ganderite]

Cool, going to get one now

I bet the screw part could be turned down so it would screw into a Glock. They make a similar sight for the AR15. It has a smaller diameter post.

But it looks like the rear sight would have to be quite tall.

 

[TDC]

With a rear notch front and rear how would you knowq if you're properly aligned or simply lOoking over the front sight? The answer is you wouldn't.

Tdc

 

[Gibbs505]

They tried that on the Lee Enfield and rejected it.

 

[BCRider]

Part of the sighting process with the usual handgun sights is to even up the little slivers of daylight showing on either side of the front blade. If you were using two "U" notches you wouldn't have that to work with The sides of the front "U" being black would make it very difficult in many lighting situations to figure out if the front U was centered in the rear U. Same with elevation. Under some lighting situations you could easily end up with the front sitting high and the rear shadowed so you can't see it.

With a ring and cross hair front you'd want a ghost ring rear to aid in centering for elevation and windage. But I could see that working. Possibly quite well in fact. But it would all stick up quite a bit and be rather fragile to bumps. And obviously not very holster friendly at all.

 

[T&G]

In essence, re-inventing the "Guttersnipe" sight that appeared on the S&W Asp about 35 years ago. Very fast for close - less than 5 metres, harder to use at longer distances. Basically doing the same thing as with our common sight system, but making it less useable.

dr jim