Has any one got any experience with TruGlo's Tritium Fiber Optic Sights? The potential has me intrigued.
Has any one got any experience with TruGlo's Tritium Fiber Optic Sights? The potential has me intrigued.
Scott
Only Hits Count - The Faster the Hit the more it Counts!!!!!!; DELIVER THE SHOT!
Stephen Hillier - "An amateur practices until he can do it right, a professional practices until he can't do it wrong."
Hate them.
Awesome concept. Horrible execution.
Front is too wide. The rear sight dots are monstrously bright and in your face compared to the front. You cannot replace the FO tube when it gets dirty or scratched, which it will. Mine started to lose brightness noticeably after about 10k rounds.
I have the green/yellow on three hard use pistols and I like them a lot.
They are an improved item by our agency (large southeast SO).
If you have aging eyes you'll like them even more.
Not for what they cost............
No way.
They saw me coming too, and quite easily got that money out of my hand. Once. But mine didn't last more than maybe 4500 rounds of hard use in extreme environments before the FO was so badly scratched and filthy that you barely knew the fsight had tritium. Looked like 20 y/o night sights. Just enough glow in pitch black to know that once upon a time, they might have been pretty decent. In any other light, they looked like really wide target sights........all black.
You can get much more of what you want with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
Lot's of guys here got them a few years ago--we loved them...until they all began to break; TFO's customer support was pitiful and the product too fragile as mentioned. Everyone I know has removed them from their pistols.
Thanks Guys;
It's a shame because as Todd Said Awesome Concept.
Scott
Only Hits Count - The Faster the Hit the more it Counts!!!!!!; DELIVER THE SHOT!
Stephen Hillier - "An amateur practices until he can do it right, a professional practices until he can't do it wrong."
Someone wanted to show me her Glock 17 with the fiber optics on it...
Nice rear. The front FO fell out.
I just installed TFO sights on my duty back up Glock 26 about one month ago... I like them, still do. BUT, they are allready showing rust on them. I still like the sight picture, but rust after a month? SERIOUSLY??? I carry it ankle on duty and IWB off duty. It is Texas, and it is hot and humid, but still that is no excuse for a cheap blued finish.
I tried them , purchased two sets at the same time. One didn't last 2 weeks before the front sight was useless , the other held up OK but was on a back up gun and when it was used I was careful about the sights after the first set going bad so quick.
Fiber optic popped off. Loved the combo of tru-glo front with regular tritium rear sights, but to fragile for hard use. I wouldn't put them on a self defense gun.
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