What about nite sights rifle sights for shotgun?

Don't know about rifle sights, but Wilson put ghost rings on mine with a tritium front. Works great.

I got an 18" barrel from Remington, with a tritium bead, for something like $100 a couple of years ago.

I had a barrel with standard rifle sights. It was going to cost more than the whole new barrel did, to buy the tritium sights to replace the standard ones, it wasn't worth it. I sold the old barrel and made my money back for the new one. After swapping to the bead, I realized how little I ever needed the old rear sight in the first place.

The problem with rifle sights on a shotgun barrel, other than that they are not needed except for long shots, is that they break off or dent when dropped or banged into something. The bead is much more durable, there is half as much to go wrong.

I would highly recommend spending your extra money on a Surefire weaponlight forend before messing with the bead sight, you'll probably spend about the same amount of money and get much more utility.

1) buy a good used 870 barrel that has rifle sights already. Sell your barrel with no sights after you buy the barrel with sights if you need help with the budget.

2) add a set of http://www.meprolight.com/default.asp?catid={2C65125C-93F9-4810-AA3F-856BDEB5471F} , http://www.xssights.com/store/shotgun.html (XS Express sights) or the like- they should be DIY with no further costs involved. Just remember- left to right removing things from American dovetails (the front sight), right to left installing things in American dovetails.

And there you have it...

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There's the XS 24/7 Express sights, they're great but they cost a bunch.

I've never noticed rifle sights on shotguns to be delicate items at all, I've never seen one broken in fact but I've seen a bunch of missing beads.

I really like rifle sights on a defensive shotgun, I find I can seamlessly use them almost like a poor man's OEG when things are close and fast, and use them regularily for finer work.

My bedroom 870P ended up with a surprising (to me) night sight arrangement that I find works great.

My shotgun came with rifle sights. When I was shooting a little 3-gun with it a few years ago, I put a fiber optic sight on the front (Williams I think; easy pound-it-in-the-dovetail deal). Never got around to doing anything with it for night sighting until 2 years ago, when I decided I would FIRST put on a white light--'cause while I'm a big fan of night sights, I'm an even bigger fan of first knowing who I'm shooting at in my house. So I put a streamlight TLR1 on a little bracket that fit under the mag cap (got it from Brownells) and turned the light on, and POP went that fiber optic. The white light, while definitely a guided LED beam, throws enough peripheral light that I can't imagine getting better visibility from tritium than from that pretty orange illuminated fiber optic (and I have a number of tritium sights with which to compare, including an XS big dot). So I never got to part 2 of the night sight plan--white light and a fiber optic are my shotgun solution.

Sights just get in my way.

Does anybody have any recommendations for nite sight rifle sights?

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I've used the 24/7 XS big dot sights in matches and classes for a couple years now, including a bit of low light shooting. I like them a lot.

When shooting at speed, I don't find the system very different from a standard bead setup. I can look right through the wide, shallow rear and see the big golfball bead and target without obstruction or distraction.

However, the setup gives me the option to slow down, "see" the rear sight, and achieve the required allignment/sight picture for the particular shot I'm trying to make. This is especially useful when I can't achieve a good mount or stockweld (shooting from unconventional positions, on the move, weakside, etc.) If I don't have the kinesthetic reference to confirm that my shot will land where it's supposed to, I can pick up the visual reference to make that confirmation.

They are, of course, also useful when attempting to place a slug with precision at distance. However, they are just as useful - in my experience - when trying to place a tight-patterning buck load at close range. A flitecontrol load at 7 yards on a 6" plate is something of a 'precision' shot. I'm sure there are plenty of guys that can do it on gun index alone, but I need a decent sight picture to reliably and consistently make that hit.

I have XS 24/7 big dot tritium rifle sights for my Remington 870 rifle sight equipped barrel. I really like them.

Seeing that you don't have a barrel fitted with rifle sights, the Wilson Combat/Scattergun Technologies Trak-Lock ghost ring setup might be your best choice.

I also have an 870P with rifle NS. The convention is that they are most useful for slugs (at farther ranges). You could get a barrel with them already installed...

TruGlo TFI

I put the TruGlo TFI front sight on my Win 1300 with good results. It does sit a little high, but it's a large tritium dot that's very bright in dark conditions & the fiber works well in day light. You do need to tap & thread the barrel for installation however.

I want magnetic tritium sights like the fiber optic magnetic sights.

Sights just get in my way.

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Yes... Why use sights when I can blindly blast at a target? Makes sense to me. Do you hold your gun sideways also? I am sure that helps.....

For close in work I really like a tritium bead on a shotgun. That is how my current home defense shotgun is set up.

For longer ranges Trijicon and Ashely both make sights that work with factory Remington setups. I have a 20 inch Remington 12 gauge shotgun barrel with rifle sights that I have installed Trijicon sights on. I can easily print less than 3 inch groups with slugs at 100 yards with this setup and often use it for hunting hogs. I imagine this setup would work well on a defensive carbine.