New Glock Sights

[Goochman270]

Just picked up a nice used Glock 17 gen 3 the other day, it has worn out night sights and I had planned on replacing them anyway for fiber optics. Its mainly gonna be for competition and range. What is the best fiber optic combo for this? Most accurate and fast to aquire? Fiber front plain rear or Both fiber? And I'd like to keep it around $80 less is better.

 

[David E]

The Warren Sevigny sights are very nice.

 

[TEAM101]

10-8 Performance brass bead sights. If you must have f/o, I believe they make them as well.

 

[Goochman270]

What about the combo like front only or both and colors?

 

[Zerodefect]

F/o front. Plain black rear. Thin front sight, wide rear notch.

Try a 10-8 plain rear with the .156" wide notch. Or a Heinie Ledge Rear with the .156" wide notch. Warren Sevigny comp is what I'm running currently. It has a .150" notch.

Use the thinest Dawson F/o front sight they offer. Should be .110" thin last time I checked.

If you're after daytime speed and accuracy, nothing will touch that. I use the above setup on a Glock 23 and it's probally the fastest gun I own. My .090", .145" setup on my Kimber is even more accurate, but sometimes the front sight gets lost with that thin of a site and long barrel.

All my pistols have plain black rear sights now. I believe that anything else is old technology. Front F/o sight for daytime carry, front gold/brass bead for dusk oriented carry, front tritium nightsight for nighttime oriented carry.

I can't aim for %^*& at night, so I often run speedy daytime sight setups on my CCW, even at night (still way better than fat plain black factory sights). That's because if even good night sights are useless to my eyes at night, then I minus well use day time oriented sights and have an advantage there. Sights are a highly personal thing. Really I should cut a slide on my CCW to accept a Trijicon reddot sight if I wanted to aim well at night.

 

[wally]

Really I should cut a slide on my CCW to accept a Trijicon reddot sight if I wanted to aim well at night

I sure wish more guns came with the slides pre-milled for the Trijicon RMR like the FNP-45 Tactical does.

IF you can live with a red tot sight that uses batteries, the Burris Fast-Fire and its Glock mount are really easy to install and is pretty easy to find for ~$225-250

+1 to Thin Dawson fiber optic front and plain black rear.

 

[Jason_G]

10-8 Performance brass bead sights. If you must have f/o, I believe they make them as well.

JMHO:
If you go with a metallic bead, get gold if possible. Brass will tarnish and dull, and even when it is polished up it doesn't shine like the gold will.

Jason