Wes, I believe that they are good quality sights and would serve you well.
A fellow instructor had two Glock-22’s with Novaks on both. One had a standard square rear notch opened to ~ .160,” and the other was fitted with what they call the “Ghost.”
Most sights are way too tight IMO for fast work with both being .125” front / .125” rear. A great way to test is to aim at a distant target in good light with the front sight out of the rear notch. (High) Then, keeping a sharp focus on the front sight, lower it into the rear notch. If it stays the same color and doesn’t lighten (turn grey) then it’s OK for your eyes. If it does lighten in color it’s too tight for sure. The same is true for aperture rear sights (AKA - Peep Sights) on rifles.
When I was shooting PPC in the 70’s I ended up with a .140” rear and now it would be at least .160”. Novak just came out with wider than standard rear sights. I think that they are .145” wide. It’s tough for me to navigate their web site, so I now type into Google search exactly what I am looking for such as “Novak P226 Sights.” That works better.
Anyway, my partner and I had the opportunity to compare at length the standard square notch rear Novak (opened to ~ .160”) and a Novak Ghost. The ghost looks strange and is called by a local sheriff’s deputy / firearms instructor “1/2 sewer pipe.” It is a large “U” shape and measures .300” across the top. We compared them at 25 yards slow fire, figuring that the Ghost would be too wide for any precision and were quite surprised to find that there were no differences in grouping between the square notch and the Ghost!
Then we compared them at 15 yards rapid fire (.40 S&W 155 grain JHP) and found that the ghost was faster for sight acquisition / reacquisition for each of us. I’m sold on it now. It comes both with and without night sights. We didn’t try .125” rear in the comparison. It would have been really slow.
I ordered the set for a Glock-17 and they were dead on at 25 yards, but a friend who was carrying a H&K Compact and used the H&K front with the Novak Ghost rear couldn’t get the POA/POI to match at 25 yards, even with two different H&K front sights. If it was me, I’d order a “set” of Novaks and send the gun to them. For an extra fee they will make sure that it’s on the money. FWIW.
There was a mention in an earlier post about not being able to hook the rear sight on anything for one handed Immediate Action in case of a stoppage when only one hand is available due to injury. That’s very true. One hand IA could even occur if one is not injured, but is holding on to a ladder, ledge, boat rail, etc. You’d might want to experiment with your pistol to see if there was another way to rack the slide other than using the rear sight one handed.
Rspy,
Kent
