Glock night sights

[Zerodefect]

This not criticism. An honest question from someone who has night sights on the front but would not have them for the rear.

Would you actually line up the 8s or the tri dots in the dark?

I bought my G34 from a local and I do not know the brand. Luckily, he did not have night sights on the rear.

Nope. In fact I don't use my nightsights in the dark at all. After going through a few shoothouses I've realized that, at night, concentrating on a dim, hard to spot front sight is futile.

Lineing up multi dot sights is impossibly slow.

I couldn't get through the shoot house without getting shot 3+ times.
I did way, way, better useing just point shooting with plain black sights.


I currently have a nightsight on the front of my night CCW, and a plain black sight on the rear. You don't need to know where the rear sight is, especially at short range, the rear sight is in your hand.

Once you learn how to properly hold the pistol so it lines up with your bones, and train holding it correctly repeatedly, you'll get a good feel to the alighnment of the gun.

Then all you have to do is concentrate on the front sight. This works good for me and is faster than 2 dots. 3 dots are useless. The rear sight just blinds my ability to find the front sight.

But the shoothouse deosn't lie, under stress (albeit slightly stressed, as it is faked stress) using night sights really stinks. Nothing is harder, IMO, than low light training. It's not fun at all.

I might just put daytime oriented sights on all my pistols. At least those rock during the day or dusk.

 

[1stmarine]

The night sights do nothing to illuminate the target.
The idea is that you are trained to shooting with a flashlight which in defensive situations with multiple threats is really hard but one should
train in this scenarios whenever possible.
I did in the military a little bit but it was not that great. The lights we had for pistol/police training sucked unlike today.

 

[Zerodefect]

Another technique I've taken to, is to just sight down the length of the left or right side or your slide. Same technique as paintball, or to a lesser extent....a shot gun. If the slide is squared up and on target, pull the trigger.

Works especially well with vertical flat slide like on a Glock or 1911.

So don't get too caught up in what sights are best. Try a few, they all suck. Get some low light training, that'll be worth more than any sight combination.

 

[Apocalypse-Now]

Glock brand factory night sights are as good or better than the others, and the least expensive.

GLOCK no longer sells factory night sites. Although there's still glocks available with them for purchase at the moment. They stopped offering them some time last year.

 

[1stmarine]

+1
low light training... Yes.
Having great sights but w/o knowing what you shoot at is not good.

 

[Apocalypse-Now]

night sights are a huge industry in this country.

if you think the bad guy will give you time to line up the three dots of your night sites during a "night encounter", you're quite mistaken.

when the adrenaline's pumping, you'll not even remember you gun has sights. you'll have about a half a second to skin leather and go to work.

some, like the ameriglo pro dots are helpful in acquiring sights at the range in any light condition (especially dimly lit indoor ranges), but other than that night sights are far more useful for LE as they often have their guns trained on a suspect before needing to fire a shot.


mandatory? no. practicing drawing and point shooting is far more useful than slapping overpriced night sites on your gun.

 

[Ole Coot]

At normal SD distances I don't need them. I have practiced point shooting over 50+ yrs. and I personally think everyone should from all positions and either or both hands. I have tried them on other folk's handguns and found they slow me down, way down. I won't win at bullseye competition but I can place my shots where they will do their job well.

 

[Apocalypse-Now]

^^smart man

 

[ForumSurfer]

Night sights are a hotly debated item. You may or may not need them. Heinie's night sights are pretty thin up front, so I like a heinie triitium up front with a plain black, serrated rear heinie sight. Dots or fiber on the rear annoy me and I shoot better (and faster) with an all black rear, preferably serrated. That way I can pick the sights up easily in the day time and the one single tritium dot up front isn't too distracting.

I tried a new (to me) 10-8 setup on my 26. Brass bead up front and plain black rear. I like these, but I like heinie's with a tritium up front and plain heinie black rear better. For the price, these are awesome and waaaaaay better than the factory glock sights. You can still stick with your point shooting, but you have a nicer, sub $70 sight set on there, too. They will pick up any light behind you, but make no mistake...if a shadow falls across them you will be point shooting.

Excuse the lousy cell phone pics complete with poor garage lighting.

 

[Sapper771]

I prefer the Warren Tactical sights. Plain rear sight, tritium front. These have worked well for me on three of my Glocks. Just got a set of Warren Sevigny Carry sights for my G34. I havent used them enough to give them a recommendation just yet.

 

[doc.lonestar]

trijicons on my g30
xs bd on my 1911 commander

I prefer the xs over trij because the sight picture is easier to pick up, and will be installing them on my 30 once the trij wear down. Till then I have no complaints with the tri - I just feel that the sight picture - IMHO for night fighting is better served by the xs sights.

 

[WRGADog]

Best night sights on my guns are

Tru Glo TFO's and Trijicons. Both work very well.

 

[Giterboosted]

Wow, I just now noticed that this thread got picked back up, lol, if anyone gets the ghost ring sights leme know, I was very interested In them as well but stuck with the TFO's

 

[piece of meat]

the stock night sights on my g26 are as good as ive seen...on par with trijicons and better than meprolights imo