Sight upgrades

[artkrhymes]

So I have the trigicons on my 1911 and work well for me in an indoor range but when I shoot outdoor it takes a while for my eyes to focus on the front sight, I might just be retarded or something. Anyway, what sights do you guys use or recommend? I was looking at the Sure Sights but nothing available for my pistol just yet...

[9mmepiphany]

Painting the rear sight blade black will make focusing on the front sight easier...it will also make acquiring sight alignment faster

[Sonic_mike]

Mepro looks like it has a bigger tube then trijicon. I have trijicon on both my xd9 and loaded so I can't speak for the mepro.

[artkrhymes]

Thanks for the input guys,

Painting the rear sight blade black will make focusing on the front sight easier...it will also make acquiring sight alignment faster

I was just thinking about that, I covered the rear dots with electric tape and noticeably focused faster on the front sight. I might just sharpie the rear sights for now as a cheap fix for the issue.

[artkrhymes]

I was also looking at the Trigicon "HD" night sights, maybe I can just purchase the front sight by itself or will that not line up correctly?

[Duranimal]

I run 10-8 sights on my pistols. Blank rear with u-notch. Love this set up n makes picking up that sight really easy.

[MA2]

Nothing wrong with you eyes, outdoors, night sights are just a white-ish front dot.

Fiber front (red or green) is the way to go for outdoors.
It will work good indoors as well.

Truglo, makes a combo night/fiber sight.

[g_conway]

+1 on the Tru Glo TFO's (Tritium Fiber Optic)
I have front and rears on my guns. The come in red, green, yellow.

[MyGlock17]

Me personally i'd go with the heinie sights for the 1911 or any semi auto pistol...i have the truglo tfo sights on my glock and i love them but i think the heinie's are bit better...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY0zUOFikYA

[SgtJT27]

I like black serrated rear and FO front sights on my 1911, which I only shoot mainly outdoors.

[negolien]

yup

I run 10-8 sights on my pistols. Blank rear with u-notch. Love this set up n makes picking up that sight really easy.

Those work very well

[NiteQwill]

I've tried night sights (slow), plain sights (hard to focus), painted signs (rubs off after awhile), fiber optic sights (not durable)...

None of them have have been better to me than a simple gold bead and plain black, serrated rear sight. Fast, bright and durable. I have them now on all my guns.

[rkt88edmo]

I like heinies too but haven't tried any of the u-notch models out there, they sound interesting as well.

[1JimMarch]

Best handgun sight in the world:

http://www.goshen-hexsite.com/index2.php

Drop-in for Glocks, custom-fit for anything else right now.

You don't have to worry about focusing them. Total non-issue - because they're meant to be used *without* focusing on the front sight. You focus on the target, leave these blurry, they still work.

[artkrhymes]

Best handgun sight in the world:

http://www.goshen-hexsite.com/index2.php

Drop-in for Glocks, custom-fit for anything else right now.

You don't have to worry about focusing them. Total non-issue - because they're meant to be used *without* focusing on the front sight. You focus on the target, leave these blurry, they still work.

This is very interesting.