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Question: Should I put High Tower Armory bases on my rifle so that I can use Glock sights?
I'm building a rifle with low profile sight requirements. It's a Fightlite SCR so it has a traditional shotgun style stock (not a straight back AR buffer tube stock). I cannot use typical AR-height iron sights. Just for clarification, the rifle is a recreational hobby gun for target practice at not very long range (25-100 yards).
Here are the HTA glock sight bases:
Another person pointed this option out to me, and I'm intrigued because I currently have Meprolight adjustable night sights on my Glock 17 and my Ruger GP100. I love these sights.
I have never heard of this done before. I suspect most people would not recommend this because glock sights (pistol iron sights) may not be suitable for 50-100 yard shots the way a peep sight would. This is owing to the intrinsic flattening of the depth of field when looking through a small aperture peep sight.
Would anybody endorse this approach? I see a benefit of having the same sight picture from pistol to rifle, and the quick sight acquisition. But maybe that just isn't enough justification vs. more traditional rifle options like:
1. Red dot
2. Low power optic
3. Peep sights
What do you think?
I'm building a rifle with low profile sight requirements. It's a Fightlite SCR so it has a traditional shotgun style stock (not a straight back AR buffer tube stock). I cannot use typical AR-height iron sights. Just for clarification, the rifle is a recreational hobby gun for target practice at not very long range (25-100 yards).
Here are the HTA glock sight bases:
Another person pointed this option out to me, and I'm intrigued because I currently have Meprolight adjustable night sights on my Glock 17 and my Ruger GP100. I love these sights.
I have never heard of this done before. I suspect most people would not recommend this because glock sights (pistol iron sights) may not be suitable for 50-100 yard shots the way a peep sight would. This is owing to the intrinsic flattening of the depth of field when looking through a small aperture peep sight.
Would anybody endorse this approach? I see a benefit of having the same sight picture from pistol to rifle, and the quick sight acquisition. But maybe that just isn't enough justification vs. more traditional rifle options like:
1. Red dot
2. Low power optic
3. Peep sights
What do you think?
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