Red or Green fiber optic front sight for Beretta NEOS,,,

[aarondhgraham]

Which is better,,,
Or is it just personal preference.

EWK Arms is marketing a fiber optic front sight for the Beretta NEOS,,,
They come in either Red or Green and I am at sea as to which to purchase.

It seems that one time I read an article that stated,,,
Green for the front and Red/Orange for the rear,,,
This was supposed to be science based.

Does anyone know the true skinny on this?

I'm ordering one as soon as I decide on the color.

Aarond

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[Hapworth]

It's personal preference. I like red because most people are conditioned to equate red with danger and a need for heightened alertness.

 

[wally]

I prefer the green as the red can be too bright here on sunny days, but either work much better for me that the alternatives. Plain black rear is what you want, anything on the rear is distracting -- your eye focus needs to be on the front sight and line up the blur of the rear and the target with the front sight.

 

[BCRider]

Without making a point of it I ended up with one red and one green on different guns. I find either works well with each having slightly better visual acquisition depending on the background colours at your ranges where you shoot. Both jump out to the eye but there is less contrast if using green against a berm with green vegetation covering. And the red loses a little contrast against any fall leaves or reddish dirt berm.

It's pretty minor though. The glow that comes from the fiber surrounded by the black framing still jumps out at you.

Totally agree with the idea of ONE highlight only and all black rear sights. Two of my handguns came with the white front dot and two white rear dots. I can see where in really dim to dark'ish conditions the white dots would be a clear advantage to getting a better sight picture. But I don't ever shoot in dark conditions so all it did for me was make gaining a fast sight picture in my competitions more difficult. I felt penned the rear spots to black and found it was a lot better.

Likely your NEOS is a range only or competition gun. Given that I'd go with either colour for the front with a slight the nod to avoiding the red against red or green against green based on what you know of your local range conditions. And then leave the rear as straight black.

On a self defense gun that needs to be useable in dark conditions I'd go with three white spots or some sort of Tritium sights setup. After all light gathering fibers on such a gun aren't going to do much if there's no light to gather.

 

[9mmepiphany]

The study I rear...a long time ago...offered this: Green draws your eye faster, red tends to disappear. However, green is a more naturally occurring color in nature and may tend to blend into the background. A lot of folks pick red, because they also use red dot sights (it's meant to be easier on your night vision).

What will really catch you eye is the brightness of the focused light from the fiber optic. Bear in mind that you should still be aligning the tops of the front and rear sight blades and only using the bright dot to find the front sight.

Whichever you choose, go with the plain black rear blade for the fastest perception of sight alignment

 

[wally]

Bear in mind that you should still be aligning the tops of the front and rear sight blades and only using the bright dot to find the front sight.

If maximum accuracy is the goal sure, but if maximum speed with "good enough" accuracy, like in shooting steel plates, setting them up so dot in the notch, dot on the center of the plate can be advantageous.

Whichever you choose, go with the plain black rear blade for the fastest perception of sight alignment

Absolutely! Most modern guns are doing us a disservice as they usually come with some kind of white dot or outline on the rear sight -- I paint them flat black first thing out of the box.

 

[bikemutt]

I find red shows up under more situations than green does.

 

[340PD]

The color red is found far less in nature than any shade of green. I went red for that reason.

 

[weblance]

The green stands out better for my eyes. I have both from EWK, but wont get to try them out until this weekend. Im assuming the green will ultimately be my choice.

 

[gunsablazin]

I switch back and forth, and it really does not matter, they both help me pick up the front sight faster when shooting at high speed, and transitioning from target to target. I use them on my competition pistols, and set the sights so point of impact is right on the dot, again my preference, and it works fine for when speed is important. The nice thing is, it's cheap and easy to change out the light pipes, so you can try both and see what you like best.

 

[aarondhgraham]

There doesn't seem to be a consensus,,,

There doesn't seem to be a consensus,,,
So I tried the time tested method of decision making.

I flipped a coin.

A red one is now on it's way to me,,,
If I find out I don't like it,,,
I'll order a green pipe.

I do appreciate all of your input,,,
There were some well written reasons for both colors.

Aarond

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[Merle1]

Which is better,,,
Or is it just personal preference.

EWK Arms is marketing a fiber optic front sight for the Beretta NEOS,,,
They come in either Red or Green and I am at sea as to which to purchase.

It seems that one time I read an article that stated,,,
Green for the front and Red/Orange for the rear,,,
This was supposed to be science based.

Does anyone know the true skinny on this?

I'm ordering one as soon as I decide on the color.

Aarond

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I have a kit of various light pies meant for a shotgun. The green shows up far away better than the orange or any of the other five colors. I got it at Bass Pro, so you might try a similar shop to try it yourself.

 

[pirateye]

I received my second sight from EWK this morning. I purchased my first last week. A few hours ago I went to the range to compare the two. My first was the red, and I must say you know it's there. Target acquisition was very quick. I did have to tweak the rear sights a bit, but once dialed in all was good.

OK, then it was to the green. I was curious to see if the sight alignment was good after the switch and am glad to say everything stayed spot on. The green didn't stand out as well, and I attribute that to using a yellow and blue target. If I had been shooting at orange or red I could see the green as quite a good contrast.

The bottom line is they are both bright and do what they are designed to do. I like the fact they are so exacting that you can change them without having to dial in each time. I am not a great shooter, heck, I'm not even that good of a shooter, but I can honestly say that with the EWK fiber optics I am a better shooter. My groupings tightened up and after all, isn't that what this is all about?