rduchateau2954
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Anybody use them? I'm debating on picking up a set. Anybody running a heinie rear with a fiber optic front?
I have plain black Heinie's on two 1911s with Dawson fiber optic front sights. They provide an excellent sight picture. The downside is there are not many sight options for the Heinie dovetail. If you think you might swap your rear sights for something else in the future, I'd recommend going with a Novak low mount rear dovetail. Everybody and his brother makes sights to fit the Novak cut.Anybody use them? I'm debating on picking up a set. Anybody running a heinie rear with a fiber optic front?
Anybody running a heinie rear with a fiber optic front?
Isn't a plain black rear just a regular sight? Why a heinie sight without the heinie dot?I have plain black Heinie's on two 1911s with Dawson fiber optic front sights. They provide an excellent sight picture. The downside is there are not many sight options for the Heinie dovetail. If you think you might swap your rear sights for something else in the future, I'd recommend going with a Novak low mount rear dovetail. Everybody and his brother makes sights to fit the Novak cut.
I might try that first. Or even just black out rear sight and leave the factory front white dot.The last two pistols input night sights on I installed a front night sight and left a standard rear sight on the pistol.
I'm pretty sure the SR1911 comes from the factory with Novak 3 dot.I have plain black Heinie's on two 1911s with Dawson fiber optic front sights. They provide an excellent sight picture. The downside is there are not many sight options for the Heinie dovetail. If you think you might swap your rear sights for something else in the future, I'd recommend going with a Novak low mount rear dovetail. Everybody and his brother makes sights to fit the Novak cut.
Tarosean, is that your sight picture? Just center the dot or are you still leveling the top of the front with the top of the rear?
On the gun I had with straight eight sights, you needed to hover the front dot an arbitrary distance above the rear. If you let them touch you were kneecapping someone at 7 yards. But, since there were only two dots, there was no reference telling you how big the gap should be. Three dot designs fix that.
Replaced them.