Adding Tritium to Standard Sights (Converting Glock Factory sights to night sights)

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Originally Posted by blues

Respectfully, gents, he's not interested in debating times or scores...perhaps someone can actually help him fulfill his request.

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Nobody is debating. I'm discussing shooting on a shooting forum. I see most of your thread topics are social commentary/political in nature.

I question that he is actually faster or more accurate with the sights he's going to need to custom make, so I was curious on how he came to the conclusion.

I guess he could try talking to Tool Tech to see if they could install lamps into the OEM metal sights.

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Originally Posted by HopetonBrown

Nobody is debating. I'm discussing shooting on a shooting forum. I see most of your thread topics are social commentary/political in nature.

I question that he is actually faster or more accurate with the sights he's going to need to custom make, so I was curious on how he came to the conclusion.

I guess he could try talking to Tool Tech to see if they could install lamps into the OEM metal sights.

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Again, that wasn't the point of the question. Why do I want these? Because I can is as good an explanation as anything. Split times are not part of the question.

https://eu.glock.com/en/products/glo...ts-luminescent

The Glock luminescent sights have the “ball in basket” that the OP is looking for, but it’s not tritium.

I am not sure they will help, but Trijicon's "custom shop" is ToolTech Gunsight. The web site is http://tooltechgunsight.com/ and the phone number is 248/628-1811. The email address is sales@tooltechgunsight.com

I believe the modification, if possible, will need to be done with steel sights, as the plastic Glock uses is not very strong. I suspect the plastic sight, with a tritium vial, would quickly fail under recoil due to the extra mass of the vial acting as a lever. The Glock plastic sights are also known for eroding just from holstering, further suggesting the plastic sights are not a good host for tritium vials.

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Originally Posted by JR1572

https://eu.glock.com/en/products/glo...ts-luminescent

The Glock luminescent sights have the “ball in basket” that the OP is looking for, but it’s not tritium.

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I have these - unless you hit them with a UV light for a second or very bright flashlight, they aren't useful for anything at night.

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Originally Posted by riverred105

Yes, I have essentially the same thing from meprolight sitting right here. My big question is how to paint the sight neatly to add the glock "cup"

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The Heinie rear sight isn't smooth so it would be a challenge if your Meprolight is like that. I would think you could take a dremmel and put two vertical grooves or channels in the sight that could be filled easily with paint and hold a straight line. The horizontal one would be a challenge near the tritium.

On a smooth sight I would just mask it and paint the line. A groove would hold the paint better though.

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Originally Posted by farscott

I am not sure they will help, but Trijicon's "custom shop" is ToolTech Gunsight. The web site is http://tooltechgunsight.com/ and the phone number is 248/628-1811. The email address is sales@tooltechgunsight.com

I believe the modification, if possible, will need to be done with steel sights, as the plastic Glock uses is not very strong. I suspect the plastic sight, with a tritium vial, would quickly fail under recoil due to the extra mass of the vial acting as a lever. The Glock plastic sights are also known for eroding just from holstering, further suggesting the plastic sights are not a good host for tritium vials.

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Thank you for this - tool tech gunsight will be either drilling the metal glock rear sight or creating a custom copy starting with a straight 8 rear.

Maybe consider the Ameriglo CAP.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/08...g?v=1466016552