What do you like for sights with your carry gun? And why do those work for you versus others?

I am looking to upgrade a gen 4 Glock 19. I have a slight astigmatism and am cross eye dominant... Between the two, I have a hard time with the factory sights (3 white dots). I am thinking about fiber optics.. but have never tried them in action before. So I thought I'd consult the hive

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Trijicon HD or Ameriglo UC

Both have brightly-colored, easily acquired front sights. (Your choice of yellow or orange; I prefer yellow.) Both have subdued rear sights with "U" notches.

HD: https://www.trijicon.com/na_en...duct2_hdns.php?mid=8


UC: https://ameriglo.com/products/glock-uc-tritium-sets

After everything I've tried over the years my favorite is still the old school SIG bar and dot contrast sights.

Really fast close shooting, just find the front sight, a little more time you just dot the i, more time or more accurate shot needed use the black full sight picture. I find that the combination of the width of the rear notch and the front sight is just right for me. I get a little light on both sides of the front sight but not too much. I have pistols with really narrow front sights vs the rear notch and also a couple with a really wide front sight that almost completely fills the rear notch, neither is ideal. The old Bar and Dot sights are just right for me.

I also very much like the idea that I can fine tune my point of aim, point of impact in a controled, common sense way by using the SIG sight number system. I like most of my pistols to shoot flat or just a bullet width high at 25 yards and I can get just what I want with a few extra front and rear SIG sights and my SIG sight pusher.

I just took an old set of dead SIG Light night sights off of a nice P229 in 357SIG and replaced them with these old bar dot sights this weekend. Started out with a 7 rear and a 6 front and the gun was shooting a couple inches low at 25 yards so I took out the 7 rear and replaced it with an 8 rear and that centered my groups up nicely.

I'm probably in the minority, but I like plain black sights. I use more of a target-focused approach to aiming, so plain black sights are less distracting to me. If I have enough ambient light to ID my target, I can either see the sights or, worst case, get a rough visual alignment on the target. I do prefer square notches and a good amount of daylight on either side of the front sight in the notch. I haven't tried them, but I really like the design of the Ameriglo Kyle Defoor plain black sights.

Another reason is that I like having the same sight picture on all my guns, which includes fixed-sight revolvers, so making all my sights plain black keeps things consistent.

I've tried colored sights, with several different colors, but I've found they'll actually disappear under some lighting conditions, at least for me.

I've used a couple of different night sights before. One was the 3-dot/2-color variety (green front, yellow rear). They worked ok, but I actually found it visually "busy," if that makes sense. I've also used XS Big Dot sights. They worked well up close, but I didn't seem to have as much accuracy potential at longer ranges.

I haven't ruled out using night sights again, but if I did I'd probably stick with a square notch, plenty of daylight on either side of the front sight, and tritium in the front sight only, preferably without an outline.

Just my preference, and, like I said, I'm probably in the minority. Sights are a personal preference. You probably won't know what works for you without some experimentation and some trial-and-error.

FYI, I'm also cross-dominant (right-handed/left-eye dominant, rather strongly, too). I'm not sure if that really has an effect on sight preferences, though. I have read that target-focused aiming, where the target is in focus and the sights are blurred, can help with some visual problems, but I can't remember if astigmatism was included in that.

My older eyes like a fiber optic skinny front sight, and an all black rear.

I have the Trijicon HD Yellow on a couple of my 228's and so far, really like them. Ed

Trijicon HDs on my last three pistols.

The, ( yellow in my case ) front sight immediately draws my eye to it.

Another vote for Trijicon HDs, I prefer the orange but the yellow works too.

Ameriglo i-Dot Pro, red/orange ring. Or just the i-Dot Pro front and a plain black rear.

Worst sight: I also now know that my Meprolight Bull's-Eye experiment ended up being unsatisfactory for anything other than close-in situations, exactly the type of scenario where one would be more likely be using instinctive/reflex targeting. Oh well...

TFOs/TFXs. They glow in day and night! Other "night sights" are just that, Night-Sights; they are hard for me to see in the day.

Ameriglo Pro Ops 3 dot with orange front ring.

I try to keep my carry guns matching my duty gun.

Either 2 dot setup or blacked out rears.
My main carry gun has Ameriglo Idot orange.

I think for my next set, I will get Warren tactical rears in either single dot or all black.

I used to have Trijicon HDs, the rear U notch is great, but I'm not a fan of 3 dots, and also the rear is quite sharp.

Starting to move towards fiber optic fronts with plain black rears

Trijicon HD-XR or Ameriglo iDot.

As my eyes have aged, traditional 3-dot sights are terrible.

Trijicon HD XR

Ameriglo Glock UC's that came on all three of my Glock TALO editions.

I pretty much go with dawson "charger" sights on my carry guns. plain black serrated rear, FO front.

Dawson plain black rear with FO front on my G43. TruGlo TFO's on my G19 which I think I'll be changing over to the Dawson set up.

I like the Ameriglo Hackathorn combo, orange dot front with a wide square notch black rear.

https://ameriglo.com/collectio...lock-hackathorn-sets

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Originally posted by JWF:
I like the Ameriglo Hackathorn combo, orange dot front with a wide square notch black rear.

https://ameriglo.com/collectio...lock-hackathorn-sets

This is what I like, and have it on 3 pistols now. Even found the individual parts for my P220 SAO.