Best Sights for a Sig 220?

[Mastrogiacomo]

Now that I'm finally heading back to work with my new Federal job, I'd like to save for another gun purchase. The one I have in mind is a Sig 220 Two-tone for my father. It'll meet his permit restriction and allow him to use it without me around. Question about the sights -- this will be for home and range only. I can't afford the Crimson Trace. It should be large and visable sights -- so what should I use? Novack whites? I'd appreciate any folks fifty and over to comment. My Dad is nearing 70 so I don't want him squinting.

 

[Jim Watson]

My main (IDPA) match gun has a red fiber optic front and white spots beside the rear notch. It is working for me at age 59.

My house gun has Siglights. Alarm drill is grab glasses, gun, flashlight.

I find Xpress sights quick and visible in my street glasses or none, but not very precise for target shooting.

I note that Tru Glo is advertising combination sights with tritium lamps embedded in fiber optic inserts. Supposed to be luminscent green in all lighting conditions. It sounds good I would wait for some field reports before buying.

Ernest Langdon is talking about a front sight with a tritium lamp BELOW a fiber optic. Zero the sights to shoot in daylight with the fiber optic as a reference. At nighttime home defense ranges the difference in elevation won't matter. But he is so backed up after moving his business that it is anybody's guess as to when he might get a new product on the market.

What Dad REALLY needs is some shooting glasses with the master eye ground to focus on the front sight. About a trifocal intermediate vision. That will take care of his range use, colored sights the home defense. The Novak dots as good as any if the specialty sights above don't work out.

 

[Mastrogiacomo]

I like the idea of keeping it simple. The gun will cost enough so the Novack white dots are what I was thinking of myself. Ernest Langdon will be doing the trigger job so I'd like him to over see the sights too.

 

[Dienekes]

Well, I have a 220 and although I don't shoot it as well as other pistols, the sights aren't the problem. I am almost old enough for social security and had bifocals prescribed for me about fifteen years ago. As a full time LEO/firearms instructor I had already seen that bifocals/trifocals were a pain in the a$$ on the range. Instead I went to a 1/2" dia. "jeweler's spot" located properly for my master eye in a Weaver position. It has worked like a charm for lo these many years and I have only had to change the prescription once in all that time. No other gimmicks required.

Black on black gets it done. Dots, red ramps, and polka dots just clutter things up.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[JNewell]

I'd consider giving the SIG sights a try before you replace them. The bar/dot system is faster and more accurate for many people than most other systems, including 3-dot sights.