best sights for Competitive shooting - Glock 19

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Posted this under general handgun before I saw this forum:

I have just joined our gun club pistol team. I've got a Buckmark II .22 & Glock 19 9mm. I am allowed to use any sights/scope that does not project a beam (i.e. laser sights).
Suggestions for a red dot or similar for the Glock 19? Its 3rd Generation. Looking to improve my scores but would prefer not spending more than the Glock is worth! If I get serious about the team I can upgrade!
 
What kind of game is it that you will be playing?


Dawson precision makes very good steel adjustable sight that give a Bomar style sight picture but fit the factory dovetail. They also sell front sights in 3-4 different widths, with and without fiber optic.

If it's an accuracy at distance game a low power scope will be better than a red dot/Cmore setup you would use for "faster" games.

Also just because you can put any style sight on the pistol, you might not want to. For example if you slapped a red dot on your 19 that would put you into Open class in USPSA. Not only would you have to shoot loads that would not be safe in that pistol to make power factor but you would be shooting against compensated pistols much better suited for the task at hand.

I would just go shoot the game and see what the folks that win use and start there.
 
What discipline?

If you're talking about USPSA OR Steel Challenge (which I assume you are, as red-dots aren't legal in IDPA), then you don't want to put that red dot on your Glock 19.

As said, that will put you into Open division. To realistically be competitive in Open, you pretty much have to run a compensator, major power factor (which you'd be very hard pressed to achieve with a Glock 19), and very high capacity (30+ rounds) magazines.

You'll see the occasional person shooting a Glock Open gun, but they're not 19's and I've never seen anyone shooting those guns be truly competitive.

Truthfully, a Glock 19 isn't IDEAL for any any division within those (sight radius/barrel is too short), but it will suffice in Production. To truly be competitive there, though you really want to move up to a Glock 34, or a 17 at a minimum.
 
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