Glock sight question

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I just purchased a Glock 19 yesterday and Glock 26 a couple of months ago and both are Gen 3. I want to keep both of them stock but don't care for the sights. I am looking at Warren Tactical and Heinie sights. Both look to be well made but can't decide on which ones to buy. I like the night sights with the 2 dot Vs the 3 dot. Anybody had experience with these sights. Thanks in advance.
 
Yes. I have both of those sights. I prefere the Hienie Ledge .156" race cut notch on the rear. 10-8 also makes an excellent .156" race cut rear sight. The Warren Sevigny Comp is also very good and is .150" wide. The wider window increases speed, and for many shooters, deosn't hurt accuracy. I haven't tried the Warren tacticals, just the Sevigny Comp which works for me.

I suggest putting daytime sights on the pistol you're most likely to carry in the day, and night sights on the other.

I use a plain rear sight on all my pistols. I don't need to know where my rear sight is at night. The rear sight is in the web of my hand. I just focus on the front. Realisticly, just pointing at night is the best option, if that option is available. A clean rear sight makes it easy to follow tghe front sight. Just like how it's OK for an AR15 rear sight to be blurry and out of focus. Focus on the front sight.

Avoid 3 dot sights like the plauge. While they still work as fine as they ever have, they are hopelessly obsolete technology. Too bright of a rear just obstructs your focus on the front.

You'll notice that Hienie uses a tiny rear trituim vial, and no white surround in it's rear sight. This is an excellent compromise. Clean sight picture, but if you do lose the rear sight, that's in your hand LOLZ, in the dark; that tiny lamp helps you line back up. They're trying to give the effect of a plain rear, while still having some nightsight glow. In low light and daytime it's allmost as good as a plain rear sight. In the pure dark the rear vila glows a little, but deosn't blind your ability to focus on the bright front.

But still, I hammered off my very nice Hienie sight on my Dan wesson Valor and will put on a 10-8 .156" wide race cut notch plain black rear sight.

Daytime Front: Use the thinnest front fibre optic sight dawson offers for your Glock. I think .110" is the thinnest I found and just right for the Glock 19.23.22.17.34.35. That's what is on my Glock 23. I have used ultra thin .090" nothches on 1911's for extreme accuracy at longer ranges, but sometimes the thin .090 is easy to lose.

Nighttime Front: Use the Hienie front or Dawson front night sight with a trijicon lamp. Ameriglo has a really cool night sight with a red dot surround. But I haven't tried that.

One of these days I'll see if I can get Dawson to custom make me a rear sight with a huge .170" rear notch so that I can have daytime speed, while using fat .125" front night sights. All front nightsights are fat .125".

If you don't belive me about using a plain rear sight at night. Hammer off your rear sight. Make sure you have a constistant grip. Punch out and dry fire. You'll notice quickly that you'll usually have the rear sight centered automaticly if you just concentrate only on your rear.

Hienie Ledge Straight 8:
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Waren Sevigny Comp rear with Dawson .110" wide FO front:
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You can see instantly how the daytime setup's large window around the thin front sight can be really fast. And that front FO dot glows like an Eotech on a sunny day, but looks like a clean black blade in low light/sunset which is also very nice.

But in the end, the ability to point shoot out to 10 yards and hit COM consistantly, will far outshadow any advantage nightsights will gove you. So tape up those sights and get some practice with that on man sized targets. If you can't point shoot well, chances are that your aimed shooting is suffering as well because of that.
 
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I've had Heinies of one flavor or another an all my Glocks. I had Straight Eights on my 29 and I like them a lot. The dot over dot is very quick and positive when it's very dark and in the daylight they give a nice target sight picture. Recently I put a set of Warren Sevigny competition rear with fiber optic front on my 29 and it's great in the daytime, but the fiber optic disappears in a dimly lit room as does the plain black rear.
I'm going back to the Heinies.

The Warren tacticals look good, but I've never used them.
 
I went with a thinner Dawson fiber front but soon realized it wasn't working at all for longer distances in IDPA...too hard to center between the rear notch. They sent me a middle width version for free (wow!) but I still wish it had been the wider one.
 
Thanks for the info. I think I am going to get the Heinie Straight Eight Night Set Now its between the Slant Pro or Ledge. Anyway I think I will be happy with this setup.
 
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