Posted: 3/17/2009 12:02:08 PM EDT
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Haven't ever owned a pistol with night sights. I have 5 glocks now and all but the last were std. issue sights. The last (my G29) I ordered with factory night sights, and man, what I was missing. I read they were Mepros and now I'm going to have to outfit every Glock I have with them. Nothing like opening the drawer at night to see those nice little green eyes looking back.
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| yeah i ordered my G29sf with the factory night sights also, they use mepro tubes, i've got mepros on my 1911, and my G20 love them, for the G20 they were a must have cause it's my "woods gun" and the 29 was a must have cause it's my CCW gun, i agree, the factory glock sight are a joke, plastic sights.........uh no thanks |
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This may sound dumb but I'm looking to get AmeriGlo Operator night sights on my newest Glock.
Can anyone tell me what the hell +1 and +0 mean on sights? I'm assuming it has to do with height? I've never noticed it before... http://www.lonewolfdist.com/Products.aspx?CAT=30 |
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Glock night sights are made by meprolight. If you look at them, the tritium is identical.
Here is what I have found with night sights, and I think I've had every kind on Glocks thus far after finally finding "the set". Meprolights seem to be the brightest. They coat their ENTIRE dot with a reflective peice that to me is very distracting. Bright is nice, but you don't want your sights distracting at night. You want to be able to index them, and thats it. Trijicon makes their sights with matte white circles around their tritium. They don't reflect nearly as bad and give you a clearer sight picture. Virtually every other night sight "producer" uses trijicon tritium. Ameriglo uses theirs. XS uses theirs. I'm sure others do too. If you ONLY look at meprolight and trijicon, you are missing 95% of the sight market. They essentially only make one style of sight, and that is the 3 dot style with tritium inserts. So, here is what you should do. Avoid all of the hassles that I had and truly research the Glock night sight market before you commit. They have more options available for them than any other platform out there. 1- you need to figure out if you like the meprolight or trijicon style. Do the reflective style or matte style work better for you? 2- you need to figure out what style of sight will work for your eye the best. -Warren makes some sights that really draw your eye to the front- they have all black rears, tritium with white dot rears, etc. -Ameriglo makes a ton of different sights- some are setup like traditional sights, others have tritium in the front and rear, but the rear has no white circle around it...making it appear black during the day to really focus on the front, but giving you a traditional 3 dot tritium sight picture at night -XS makes some sights that put a bigass dot in the front so thats basically all you see and all you use to hit your target In short, look at everything before you buy. I frankly believe the Ameriglo Pro Operator is the best sight option available for the Glock. Many others feel the same about the XS Big dot 24/7 sight. Check them out. |
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Glock night sights are made by meprolight. If you look at them, the tritium is identical. Here is what I have found with night sights, and I think I've had every kind on Glocks thus far after finally finding "the set". Meprolights seem to be the brightest. They coat their ENTIRE dot with a reflective peice that to me is very distracting. Bright is nice, but you don't want your sights distracting at night. You want to be able to index them, and thats it. Trijicon makes their sights with matte white circles around their tritium. They don't reflect nearly as bad and give you a clearer sight picture. Virtually every other night sight "producer" uses trijicon tritium. Ameriglo uses theirs. XS uses theirs. I'm sure others do too. If you ONLY look at meprolight and trijicon, you are missing 95% of the sight market. They essentially only make one style of sight, and that is the 3 dot style with tritium inserts. So, here is what you should do. Avoid all of the hassles that I had and truly research the Glock night sight market before you commit. They have more options available for them than any other platform out there. 1- you need to figure out if you like the meprolight or trijicon style. Do the reflective style or matte style work better for you? 2- you need to figure out what style of sight will work for your eye the best. -Warren makes some sights that really draw your eye to the front- they have all black rears, tritium with white dot rears, etc. -Ameriglo makes a ton of different sights- some are setup like traditional sights, others have tritium in the front and rear, but the rear has no white circle around it...making it appear black during the day to really focus on the front, but giving you a traditional 3 dot tritium sight picture at night -XS makes some sights that put a bigass dot in the front so thats basically all you see and all you use to hit your target In short, look at everything before you buy. I frankly believe the Ameriglo Pro Operator is the best sight option available for the Glock. Many others feel the same about the XS Big dot 24/7 sight. Check them out. I have done alot of sight research and agree with you, the amerglo is what I am also getting. I am going to order the rear in black with the tritium front sight blade, I probably will also go with the .200 notch for the rear. |