What is your favorite pistol sight set up?

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Looking to put decent sights on my Glock 19. Looked at a set of the Trijicon HD XRs as an option. Like the idea of night sights, and the idea of the thinner front blade. Considered the HD XR front, with a blacked out rear. I have Trijicon suppressor height sights on my version of a Roland Special. All those dots are green and the same size. What is everyone's favorite setup? Night sights? Fiber Optic? Blacked out rear? Discuss...

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Fiber optic (red) front, white on the rear sight. But I'm old and can't see well......
 
I have two intended purposes for my pistols. Defensive shooting, and match shooting. For my EDC’s I’m running this Ameriglo set up and love it.
For match shooting I’m running a similar rear U Notch, and a fiber front sight
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My favorite is set is the sights they put on the Talo edition. U-notch AmeriGlo with orange front very similar to Fieldgrade's setup.
 
Gold line or Gold bead up front.

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Rear a matching u notch or square setup.

If I am going night sight I like dot over dot or the setup @fieldgrade recommended. Fiber optic front is great for a range only or gun games pistol.
 
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One thing I want to mention that some of you undoubtedly already know.

When running a set of sights for something other than bullseye shooting, you want a rear notch a little wider than your front sight blade. It makes for quicker target acquisition. You might lose some accuracy, but for defensive/action/match shooting at under 20 yards where you might be moving and shooting you want fast target acquisition.

Additionally, if you run the same rear sight with the same width in a square notch it will look like it’s a country mile wider than the same width notch in a U-notch.

I don’t know what the visual dynamics are with the human eyeball and U-Notch rear sights, but I sure do like them.
 
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fieldgrade said:
One thing I want to mention that some of you undoubtedly already know.

When running a set of sights for something other than bullseye shooting, you want a rear notch a little wider than your front sight blade. It makes for quicker target acquisition. You might lose some accuracy, but for defensive/action/match shooting at under 20 yards where you might be moving and shooting you want fast target acquisition.

Additionally, if you run the same rear sight with the same width in a square notch it will look like it’s a country mile wider than the same width notch in a U-notch.

I don’t know what the visual dynamics are with the human eyeball and U-Notch rear sights, but I sure do like them.
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As I understand it the human eye is attached to edge and sharp corners. The U notch tricks the eye. It sees it but does not fixate on it. It then allows you to "see" the front sight which fills the U notch. The square looks larger because your eye focuses on the edges and the distance between them and the front sight.
 
On Glocks, I use the factory plastic sights that everyone says are no good. I black out the white outline on the rear and put some orange paint on the front dot.
 
Geezer said:
On Glocks, I use the factory plastic sights that everyone says are no good. I black out the white outline on the rear and put some orange paint on the front dot.
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A lot of times it is really about creating a contrast that works for your eyes. Its a lot like holsters. There are a lot of subjective preferences but no real "universal" best.
 
Geezer said:
On Glocks, I use the factory plastic sights that everyone says are no good. I black out the white outline on the rear and put some orange paint on the front dot.
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I know at least two guys who used to kick most everybody’s butt at matches running stock Glock sights.
 
I like fiber optic (Dawson Precision) over anything else. Red fiber front with a blacked out rear. Fast acquisition and I haven’t been able to figure out a situation where night sights would be useful outside of finding my pistol in a dark room. That said, my edc still has factory night sights just because the rear is built in to the optic plate (P365XL).


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fieldgrade said:
Speaking of orange paint for front sights. I had this left over from building models with my kids 15 years ago and it works GREAT. Apply with a toothpick.

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I used dollar store orange fingernail polish for a long time and I bought a bottle of fluorescent orange paint at Hobby Lobby. It works about the same as the fingernail polish, just costs more.
 
Geezer said:
I used dollar store orange fingernail polish for a long time and I bought a bottle of fluorescent orange paint at Hobby Lobby. It works about the same as the fingernail polish, just costs more.
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Hey, my bottle of paint was collecting dust in the workshop.
 
Geezer said:
I used dollar store orange fingernail polish for a long time and I bought a bottle of fluorescent orange paint at Hobby Lobby. It works about the same as the fingernail polish, just costs more.
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Autobody touch paint also works great.
 
fieldgrade said:
I have two intended purposes for my pistols. Defensive shooting, and match shooting. For my EDC’s I’m running this Ameriglo set up and love it.
For match shooting I’m running a similar rear U Notch, and a fiber front sight
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I concur. I don’t have this on everything, but am moving in that direction.

Damn, I must be getting old and grumpy, I am agreeing with @fieldgrade .
 
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So you are saying the print on packaging isn’t getting smaller, it’s me? F’ing liar! :mad:
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When you don’t see any letters at all on the great big green highway signs you’ll know you’ve arrived.
 
I like Warren Tactical on a carry gun, single tritium vial in each sight, dim white rear bright green front. The Ameriglo's with a single vial in each are okay too.

I thought U notches were awesome when I first got into pistols, now I don't care. Though the Warren's and Ameriglo's I have do have them, my match guns don't.
 
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When you don’t see any letters at all on the great big green highway signs you’ll know you’ve arrived.
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Ok, I should be good for a bit then. I’ve always said my eyes are the only good body part I own. When they go I might as well check out for good. Guess I’ll hang around for a bit longer now.
 
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I’ve always said my eyes are the only good body part I own. When they go I might as well check out for good.
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Oh hell no. They can fix those eyeballs. I told my wife that if it was 150 years ago she’d be married to a blind, mean old man. As it is, she’s just married to a mean old man.
 
fieldgrade said:
Oh hell no. They can fix those eyeballs. I told my wife that if it was 150 years ago she’d be married to a blind, mean old man. As it is, she’s just married to a mean old man.
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But I used to be able to see at distance in the dark and find schools of baitfish at big distance in daylight. It was my freaking super power. Now I am an old human. Not cool. I actually turn on a light to read a label now and then. WTF? Next thing you know I’ll need large font. :(
 
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Geezer said:
I used dollar store orange fingernail polish for a long time and I bought a bottle of fluorescent orange paint at Hobby Lobby. It works about the same as the fingernail polish, just costs more.
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But what do you use on your sights? :confused:
 
CCW: Trij night sights, not HD’s
Other: Blacked out rear, red fiber optic front

It really surprised me how much I liked the blacked out rear/red FO front setup. I always felt that I needed dots in the rear but this setup is very quick and easy for me so I now have it on a few guns. My carry M&Ps will always have night sights, it just seems prudent to me.
 
Carry guns (grocks): Ameriglo Hackathorns on 43 & 19. Ameriglo Icap on the g42 (bought from bigfelipe lol).

I like the Ameriglos for these reasons:
Low sight axis.
Big rear notch
Big orange dot
Low profile
Affordable

For competition I like the Dawson blacked serrated rear and FO red front.
I like the narrower front sights and larger rear notch.

I like the bigger notches because it is so much faster, and my eyes need the light on either side. But, my eyes have become so bad I switched to an optic gun for matches and likely will go full Derek on my carry guns too.
 
VP9s have Trijicon Hds (wife's is orange, mine is yellow front dot)
Everything else is factory. Only guns we train with are the VP9s.
 
I like limegreen glow in the dark front and blacked out rear. I think i have Ameriglow and NightFision. I like them both. The human eye picks up green really well (assuming you are not color blind maybe :). I have lots of different Sigs and Caniks and I think that the blacked out rear site is faster. I think the Dot sight for the rear is unnecessary.
 
On my G19, XS DXT2, tritium dot with orange ring front, shallow notch rear with tritium center vertical bar

On my Springfield 9mm 1911, fiber optic front over Harrison u-notch rear

On my Hellcat, stock white rimmed u-notch rear, tritium dot with luminescent green ring front

All my sights are for quick acquisition rather than accuracy.

(Well, I do have target sights on my Ruger Mk II. :) )
 
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