What are your preferred sights on a defensive pistol?

[breakingcontact]

I am currently using Ameriglo Spaulding sights and like them well enough.

If I could find a tritium, fiber optic, with bold painted outline and blacked out rear sights, that may be the perfect set.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I am currently using Ameriglo Spaulding sights and like them well enough.

If I could find a tritium, fiber optic, with bold painted outline and blacked out rear sights, that may be the perfect set.

Trijicon HD or similar. A light touch with a black permanent marker on the rear tritium vials blacks out the rear sight more completely and also makes the front sight stand out a bit more in low light situations, as it's a bit brighter.

 

[ISP 5353]

Trijicon HD

 

[G192127]

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These work for my old eyes.

 

[Hopper]

I've come to really like the Heinie "Straight 8" style of sights. It's so simple... just "dot the i" and you're ready to go.

 

[Peacekeeper3073]

TruGlo's do a great job for me.

 

[dfcrane]

I like the Ameriglo Hackathorn sights on my Glock 43.

 

[breakingcontact]

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These work for my old eyes.

These are supposed to be more durable than the TFOs as well.

 

[WebSnyper]

Trijicon HD or similar. A light touch with a black permanent marker on the rear tritium vials blacks out the rear sight more completely and also makes the front sight stand out a bit more in low light situations, as it's a bit brighter.

Trijicon HD

Same here. Trijicon HD's or Ameriglo Spartan Operators.

For the OP, the Ameriglo Hackathorn's may be the ideal as they don't have the tritium in the rear sight (I prefer to have the tritium, but without any outline, therefore I go with the Trijicon HD or the Ameriglo Spartan Operators myself).

 

[gmcttr]

Trijicon HD

Or Ameriglow Agent Night Sights for a less sharp back edge to poke at your side (may only be available for Glocks).

 

[breakingcontact]

I've come to really like the Heinie "Straight 8" style of sights. It's so simple... just "dot the i" and you're ready to go.

I forget what they are called, but I like the older Sig "i dot" sights compared to normal 3 dots.

 

[rhino]

Sig X-Ray sights.

 

[croy]

I like the Ameriglo Hackathorns or I dot.

 

[nakinate]

I prefer fiber optic sights with a blacked out rear sight on all of my guns. I went 5000 rounds before I changed out a rod on my M9A1 and it could’ve gone longer. If I were to go with night sights I really like the Ameriglo Hackathorn sights. It has an orange front dot with a tritium center and blacked out rear sight.

 

[gglass]

Like many here, I have used almost every type of sight available. In recent years I was preferring to customize my sights by purchasing either F.O or night sights from Dawson Precision, which allowed me to order just the right height sights for each handgun. Now you could say that I am a convert to a completely different kind of sight system, that system being Diamond Speed Sights. I can say without hesitation that I have never utilized sights before that allowed me to both shoot faster and with more accuracy from the same sight system, all other sights have been an either/or situation. I have described Diamond Speed Sights, to everyone that will listen, as the iron sight equivalent of having cross-hairs on a pistol.

After installing the Diamond Speed Sights first on my EDC M&P m2.0C, I quickly decided that these new sights will reside on every handgun I possibly can. (not currently available for every handgun type)

Diamond Speed Sights on my M&P (front sight slightly out of camera's focus)

Just like Cross-Hairs:

If you are tired of estimating the light gap between the sight posts, or frustrated with trying to quickly align round dots, then you really should check out Diamond Speed Sights. You will thank me later.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I can say without hesitation that I have never utilized sights before that allowed me to both shoot faster and with more accuracy from the same sight system, all other sights have been an either/or situation.

How much faster, and on what sort of drills/tests?

What's the difference? "Equal light" still looks like a thing from the picture you posted, but "equal height" is moved to the center of the sight post instead of the top?

 

[breakingcontact]

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These are what I've been talking about.

There are different versions.

 

[Vigilant]

Trijicon HDs with the rears slightly blacked out.

 

[gglass]

How much faster, and on what sort of drills/tests?

What's the difference? "Equal light" still looks like a thing from the picture you posted, but "equal height" is moved to the center of the sight post instead of the top?

BBI,

The drills so far have simply been the 3 to 4 drills where sight alignment and sight picture are established. How much faster, would be about 40% to 50% faster without doing a lot of timer work... Let's just say that it is noticeably faster, and this is coming from a guy who really sucks at speed shooting. It is the worst part of my shooting discipline.

The picture that I pulled from the Web was due to the fact it was the most level I could find, and would allow me to draw cross-hairs. That light gap is absolutely NOT there when the sights are presented at arms length from the shooter's eye, and is due to the closeness of the camera to the sights. The actual sight alignment is more like my M&P sight picture above, which shows the diamond points touching. When presenting the gun, it is amazing how quickly your brain recognizes the diamond shapes and gives your finger the "GO" signal. It is just so much better, for me, than the alignment of 3 round circles or 3 rectangles (posts).

I have been shooting since I was 7-years old, and I thought that I would have to unlearn many years of sight-alignment conditioning to get used to the Diamond Speed sights, but I found that they are actually very intuitive.

 

[blacknwhite]

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