I went with the AmeriGlo traditional green ns and am finding them really small now.

My problem is I am now half blind and seeing them is getting harder

The Big Dots or I Dots looked interesting but were about twice the price.

Guess my questions is isn’t the actual tritium that glows the same size between the two and does anyone make a larger dot night sight or do I. Eed laser eye surgery.

I’m now seeing the none tritium glow sights that look to be be a larger dia but don’t those have to get a charge of light to get them to glowing.

There are some sights that use larger front dots, such as XS Big Dots. A larger dot makes for faster sight acquisition at the expense of larger MOA. A larger dot makes it more difficult to aim accurately the farther out you shoot.

As far as I've seen, all night sights use the same size Tritium bulbs, or the difference is so small as to be negligible.

If you want a glowing sight that needs to charged by light you can buy some or buy the glow paint and paint as big of dot as you want.

It sounds to me as if you are more likely in need of corrective lenses, eye surgery, or a red dot reflex sight. Good thing about Glocks is they are not expensive to have milled for red dots. You could also get a G43X MOS.

About the biggest I can think of would be going with an XS brand front sight or bite the bullet and get one of the smaller red dots.

You know the GITD paint idea isn't all that bad. It's cheap, some of the new stuff glows for a good bit with a quick shot of a flashlight and you could technically paint as much of the front sight as you want. It might make a bit of interim step if you will.

Like was said even sights like the Big Dots have pretty small tritium inserts, so that might not work for you, although the big dot is easier to see in low light.

I am still on the fence regarding pistol optics but I will emphatically say they are the best damn night sight you will ever have so this might be a better, albeit more expensive/hassle, route.

Well I guess the sights I have are about as good as I will get.

I won't go MOS, bought the 43X and knew I had the MOS option but not going down that road for CCarry.

Just picked up a LaserMax guide rod laser for it and have a few issues to work out on it. Not very happy with the on/off switch setup for the Glocks. The switch is next to impossible to activate unlike all my Sig units which are smooth and easy. I have over 30 years use on the Sig units with no issues ever. Have had a few Sig switches that were stiff when new but with a few cycles they smoothed right out. Not so much on this Glock unit.

I like the larger dot in the front only and blacked out/plain/no dot rear. I can acquire a better/faster sight picture this way as I get older.

I put a set of AmeriGlo sights on my G43 and have been happy with them. In daytime they are very visible which I like. In darkness, the front sight is much brighter than the rears which I suppose is a good thing. I find the daytime usefulness much more important than what the titanium provides in darkness.

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Originally posted by patw:
I like the larger dot in the front only and blacked out/plain/no dot rear. I can acquire a better/faster sight picture this way as I get older.

I have fairly recently put a few sets of blacked out rears orange front ameriglo’s on Glocks and I am finding I really like this setup.

They still won’t address the OP’s small tritium dot issue but they certainly draw the eyes to the front sight in lit conditions.