For my 77 year old eyes (damm I'm old) the Ameriglo Spartan Operater or Bolds work best.
The Trijicon HD works good too but are too sharp and pointy on the rear for me.
Red dots bloom badly so I have no use for them.
For my 77 year old eyes (damm I'm old) the Ameriglo Spartan Operater or Bolds work best.
The Trijicon HD works good too but are too sharp and pointy on the rear for me.
Red dots bloom badly so I have no use for them.
FWIW, fiber optic sights don’t work for me, the dot is too small. I only have them on one pistol, a CZ-75, and that’s because nobody makes the kind I want for those pistols.
1. Ameriglos Spartan Operators or their functional equivalents.
Years ago, folks like TLG, Chuck Haggard, Erick G, Spencer Keepers, I dare say myself, and others I am sure, were independently taking the OEM factory painted front (round and square) in both the .125 and .140 widths and mating them with a variety of .180 rears (same and contrasting tritium as the fronts etc.). This approach was on the heels of using orange finger nail polish, Testor brand model paint or orange reflective tape on the front sight.
https://pistol-training.com/articles...y-front-sight/
2. A quality red or green FO i.e. Dwson
3. The best of both worlds would be a tritium/FO combo. Historically, there were durability issues with FOs. If the right folks told me that somebody's combo trit/fo front was duty worthy, I would seriously consider taking it for a spin with an eye toward converting across the board. (6 Glocks)
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Color makes a big difference for me. Green fibers look way more crisp to my eyes than red.
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Totally agree! I don't need a correction to shoot, but Varilux X are the first and only progressives that I've been able to use for shooting. There is really no comparison between the X and anything else I've tried. Don't let your optometrist talk you into getting a competing design either. It's not the same.
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You will be waiting a long time. The number of foot prints have narrowed but you’re never going to see everybody using one universal footprint. Particularly if you were waiting to see that result from the marketplace. We’ve already been through a 30 year cycle of this with Carbines.
Even with something like military rifle optics you have organizations like NATO trying to impose a standard. While officially Picatinny/M1913 is “the standard” you still have NATO members using the old STANG mounts, members using flat top ARs with weaver rather than 1913 rails and the UK SUSAT mounting foot print.
Even with Carbines you never had one “ norm.” You had Aimpoint versus EO Tech Versus prism /ACOG versus those weird Trijicon/Meprolight reflex sights and now LPVOs.
As discussed in this thread: https://pistol-forum.com/showthread....d-Mount-System some manufacturers have a proprietary interest in maintaining their own footprint.
For LE/MIL duty use enclosed emitters will become the standard but that does not necessarily equal a standard foot print. For example, despite the clear superiority of cross bolt mounting systems you have SIG making a faux enclosed emitter in the form of the removable hood on the Romeo2 in order to keep using their proprietary top mounted screw foot print.
I don’t think open emitter sights will go away completely you will just see the market bifurcate.
All of that to say I think the waiting for the marketplace to mature thing as a cop out to avoid going to a dot.
In all honesty if you’ve been shooting iron sights for a long time and you’ve attained a level of skill with them transitioning from irons to the dot requires more work than someone who’s never shot before starting with the dot.
Two things that make it easier are getting some professional dot specific instruction and applying what you learned using a gun that only has a dot. I am a big believer in back up iron sights for duty or self-defensies but for training purposes, particularly transitioning a long time iron site shooter to a dot, a dot only gun is an excellent training tool. You can leave the back up irons off the gun and add them once you get confident with the dot.
For myself, I went through a period of a few years where I was working with dots on my own but they were not yet approved for duty use. I found working with the dot made me a better and faster iron sight shooter. So even if you don’t want to fully commit to carrying a dot, putting a dot on one of your five Glocks still has value.
As far as system maturity, the ACRO P-2 mounted via an optic specific direct mill mount is as good as it gets at this point.
Last edited by HCM; 01-31-2022 at 11:50 AM.
At 62, I still want to shoot irons. For me...^ This is the way
Ask yourself...when was the last time you read anything where you WANTED smaller print?
BIG front sights with rear notches wide enough for suit your tastes.
Personally, I run a notch just wide enough to fit the BIG front (no light bars). That gives me a "green light" to
break the shot when I see a full front sight.
Guns are just machines and without you they can do no harm, nor any good
Ameriglo protector sight set $60 off Amazon. Same as Hackathorne set but with a bright yellow/green front. Have this set on my twin G19 Gen. 4s and my G43. After trying several setups this works best for me. I’m only 39 but it’s a large and crisp sight picture.