Anyone else prefer fiberoptic front sights to tritium?

[S.Clay]

Personally, I do not like the IDK's why, but I never did. That told me she was leaving me. For purpose = Fiber for SD / HD = Tritium. All of my are night spots. Night views have a half-life, but depending on the manufacturer, some will replace them for free at this time, keep in mind, I think it's just a guaranty policy for the non-aftermarket manufacturer. It may be wrong.

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[browningguy]

Like some others, I really like the TFO sights, all of my competition pistols have them or fiber sights.

 

[FL-NC]

For "combat use" I prefer tritium- I go off the basis that you ALWAYS need to see your sights, and a flashlight may fail you, or you may not be able to carry your gun with it mounted. i do like the F-O sights on my G34 for 3 gun, and on the rib on my shotguns that I shoot various feathered critters with.

 

[Creaky_Old_Cop]

I've walked through my homes and found plenty of positions where my gun would be in the dark and an intruder would be in the light.

My wife is 5'3" and my son (4yrs old) is 3'7". Anyone but them shouldn't be in my house in the middle of the night... Pretty easy to rule out any those body types, even without a flashlight.

.......and you're not in the dark, or anywhere near "total" darkness, if the target is in the light. Regardless of the size of your wife and son...how about identifying a cop or maybe your neighbor who wandered in drunk? You don't have any training in clearing structures at all do you?

 

[stchman]

Fiber optic all the way for a range gun, only reason to get tritium night sights is for low light "combat" shooting. If one is to change out sights, the Tru-Glo TFX gives you the best of both worlds.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I've had several guns with fiber optic sights. On a carry gun, I really do prefer tritium night sites, and I've been debating changing some of my guns out for them, like my primary carry an XDs 45. However I carry a P30sk almost more often now and it already has night sites.

I HATE fiber optics on a revolver. Sorry, just no.

On a range gun/open carry semi auto, sure fiber optics are alright. I'm guessing I'll favor them more as I age.

 

[Doublehelix]

Fiber optic all the way for a range gun, only reason to get tritium night sights is for low light "combat" shooting. If one is to change out sights, the Tru-Glo TFX gives you the best of both worlds.

That is what I thought, but as much as I love the Truglo TFX sights that I bought, they don't work well on my gun (SIG P226).

They light up like a Christmas tree, and I love that! Very, very cool, but for my SIG, the sight picture was off by quite a bit (shoots high). I tried both the #6 and the #8 front sight to see if I could get it work, but no dice. Then on top of that, the front sight fit so loosely in the dovetail, that it kept falling off! I had to really do some serious work to get it to stay in place. But at the end of the day, the improper sight picture was the deciding factor to move on.

I ended up with a set of LPA TTF sights with an adjustable rear sight. I love them!!! FO only, so I am going to miss the FO/tritium combo on the Trueglo TFX's, but other than that, these are such an awesome set of sights, I am really thrilled. I had to custom fit the front sight, which is what I am used to, and it fits very tightly in the dove tail, and with a little red Loctite, that sucker ain't moving for nothing!!!

 

[drband]

Regarding loose dovetails:

Hitting the bottom (flat part) of the dovetail with a center punch (nail set) will dent an area, but raise UP the surrounding area a bit. That's how some gunsmiths tighten up a sight that is loose in the dovetail -- as it pushes the entire sight UP in the dovetail, which
pushes the sight against the sides of the dovetail, making it tighter.

(Doing this also does not risk damaging a visible part of the slide and can be easily remedied by filing or sanding the raised areas...)

^^^^
THIS!
Don't hit your slide dovetail with a hammer!

 

[Coyote3855]

As another poster noted, I liked FO front sights on my IPSC competition pistols. I did need to replace the FO rod occasionally and kept spares in my range bag. My Kel-Tec PMR 30 has FO front and rear. I carry it round the place in the pickup and on the tractor. Front FO broke with some regularity until I found a holster that protected both sights. FO is great outdoors for feral cats and ground squirrels. I have night sights on most of my carry guns. And always a flashlight. As Creaky_Old_ Cop says, never make assumptions about your target in the dark.

 

[stchman]

All in all I prefer to keep my sights stock. If I want a gun with night sights, I'll buy a gun that the manufacturer installed them when it was made.

I only have one gun that has aftermarket night sights, my FNP-45. Whoever installed them didn't do a great job, the rear sight was loose and I had to red loctite it into place.

 

[Zerodefect]

The light green, not quite neon green, FO inserts for the front sight are light enough that I can pick them up better at dusk and in IDPA indoor basement ranges better than my Tritium fronts. The light green dots are just as good as the white on nightsights.

The red FO rods don't do this.

My night house training doesn't involve sights of any kind 99% of the time.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

.......and you're not in the dark, or anywhere near "total" darkness, if the target is in the light. Regardless of the size of your wife and son...how about identifying a cop or maybe your neighbor who wandered in drunk? You don't have any training in clearing structures at all do you?

Why the hell would any homeowner be clearing a structure? If there's a bad guy in the house, wait in your safe room and let him come to you. If he doesn't come to your safe room, so much the better.

 

[Zerodefect]

Exactly. When we shoot in nighthouses. The bad guy targets are waiting in ambush, and as we clear the nighthouse, it's pretty absolutely obvious that we'd DIE, badly every time.

I clear my property, but everyone else sits tight. I get to be the expendable one. (yay)

 

[JTQ]

I'm always intrigued in all these "homeowner clearing his house scenarios", if you've decided to clear your house (which I probably wouldn't do if I knew there was an intruder), why you're not turning on the lights. It's your house, you know where the light switches are.

 

[Kano383]

I'm always intrigued in all these "homeowner clearing his house scenarios", if you've decided to clear your house (which I probably wouldn't do if I knew there was an intruder), why you're not turning on the lights. It's your house, you know where the light switches are.

I wouldn't turn the lights on because it's my house, I know where the furnitures are...

 

[Janos Dracwlya]

I recently put TruGlo combination sights on the PCR that is my current carry gun. They give me the best of both worlds, and will probably become the standard for all of my guns, eventually.

 

[JONWILL]

Replacing tritium sights every 10 or 12 years doesn't bother me.
I do have tru-glo sights on one 3 gunS, they are very nice.

 

[Doublehelix]

Regarding loose dovetails:

Hitting the bottom (flat part) of the dovetail with a center punch (nail set) will dent an area, but raise UP the surrounding area a bit. That's how some gunsmiths tighten up a sight that is loose in the dovetail -- as it pushes the entire sight UP in the dovetail, which
pushes the sight against the sides of the dovetail, making it tighter.

(Doing this also does not risk damaging a visible part of the slide and can be easily remedied by filing or sanding the raised areas...)

I missed this post the first time around somehow (thanks drband for re-quoting it, and thanks Walt for the original post). This is exactly what I did the last time it fell out, and to be honest, and it held well for about 2 weeks until I could afford to the get the new sights. Somehow deep in the back of my mind however, I kept worrying that it was going to fall out again, plus the sight picture was off far enough that it drove me nuts and screwed up my ability to switch back and forth between my other guns. (It shot high, so I had to pull the nose of the gun down to get it on target.)

I will never again buy aftermarket sights that are not adjustable for elevation. The factory sights all seem to be fine as shipped, but I had so many problems with those Truglo's that I have made a commitment to never go through that again.

Once again, I love how they light up, and love the tritium/FO combination, so if they work in your gun with the proper sight picture and stay put (!), I would say it is a no-brainer to go with the TFX sights.