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Picked up a new Gen 4 G19 today. Looking at night sight options. What say you?
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I have TFO's on my 19 - gen 3. No complaints. Day or night.
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Got these on my 19 and 30S. You don't really notice the little rear dot during daylight so they act more like a Hackathorn set (which is what I have in the 34 and 41). Really like them. That front sight just stands out! https://www.amazon.com/Ameriglo-Pro...mp;sr=8-1&keywords=ameriglo+glock+19
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I put a set of Ameriglo CAP sights on my 27 a couple months ago and really like them.
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I wound up getting a set of Trijicons on my G19. If possible, do what I did and look at a bunch of different stuff in person if you can and then let your eyes decide. I was lucky that my favorite gun shop had a bunch of stuff I could see first hand and what they didn't have there they had some good pictures of. Plus, the shop owner is a retired sheriff and a real gun guy with lots of experience with stuff like that so I always value his opinion. Trijicons were one of his early recommendations and that's what I finally settled on, except now I can't recall exactly which model number/name they are.
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I really like the two vertical dot sights versus the three horizontal dot set up. The "straight eight" is definitely worth a look.
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Another vote for the TruGlow either TFO or TFX...
Have the TFOs on a Glock 19 and 40. Like the fact that one gets the same sight dots day or night...helps with aging eyes...
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I have both Heine Straight 8's & Trijicon 3-dots on several different guns.
I like the Straight 8 setup best, but the Trijicons are unquestionably brighter.
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On various guns I have Heinie straight eight and traditional three dot night sights. Nothing can equal the brightness and ability to focus on the front sight like Trijicon HD night sights that came on my new Glock 43. Nothing works better for these aging eyes. You can chose between red or yellow front sight outline.
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Picked up a new Gen 4 G19 today. Looking at night sight options. What say you? These.
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On various guns I have Heinie straight eight and traditional three dot night sights. Nothing can equal the brightness and ability to focus on the front sight like Trijicon HD night sights that came on my new Glock 43. Nothing works better for these aging eyes. You can chose between red or yellow front sight outline. Those are great too. Love the HDs
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There is as much personal preference involved in picking night sights as there is in guns. For years I used Trijicons and I had no trouble. I also had some Meprolights and they were fine. Now, everyone makes night sights and, in addition, my “computer distance” (which is the same as sight distance) eyesight is not what it used to be.
Although they look a little goofy, I have been liking the Tru Glo TFX because they pop during the day and they give me more illumination at night than Trijicon, so I can use them with uncorrected vision. I have them on 2 Glock 19s. I also put a set of the regular TFO sights on a Glock 43, but I find that the convex shape on the edge of the front vial creates a glint during the day. The TFO is brighter both day and night, but they are more fragile than the TFX according to Internet lore. Note that the TFX sights that I bought this year have a narrower rear sight (but the sight gap is the same) than the ones I bought last year. Coupled with the fact that the outside edges are rounded, this helps draw my focus to the center gap more (and, therefore, the front sight). I really like this on Glocks, because the blocky slide does not help one draw attention to the front sight like a gun with a more rounded top. I hope this makes sense the way I expressed it. A negative of the TFO/TFX sight is that it takes away some sight radius because of the length of the front sight.
Note that some Trijicons have a rear sight shaped like a pyramid with the top cropped off, if you want to go in a different direction.
Two other points. I tried Trijicon HD sights on a Glock 43 and hated them. There could just be bias from never using “U” shaped rear shapes before, but I couldn’t make them work. (I guess from what I said above about the TFX, I prefer my “U” upside down.) In the first place, the gun shot low for me, maybe because the sights are regulated for a different distance on that model gun. (I PM’d GaryVA on this forum, who has forgotten more than I will ever know about this topic, and he said that he did not have that problem, BTW.) Also, there seemed to be more light on each side of the front sight than I like. This could be a function of my computer distance vision, but I like a more crowded sight picture than one that requires fine tuning of light on each side of the front sight.
Anyway, unless you are at the pinnacle of a gun game, you probably can’t go wrong no matter what, but there are nuances to go with every preference.
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Think I'm going with these Trijicon HD's. Buddy has them on his M&P .45 and really likes them, and so do I. Thanks everyone. If you all got a line on where to get them super cheap, let me know. Not really partial to any one color, but thinking the yellow front sight might be the cat's meow.
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Green, if you can find it, is actually the brightest tritium FS. I have these HDs on my 23/19 and like them. However, I prefer the Heinie Straight 8. For me they are the fastest because of the ease of finding the FS fast and lack of any possible confusion between rear and front dots.
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I have the Trijicon HD GL101O's on my G19 and also have Trijicon HD's on my TRP and like them a lot.
Will probably put them on a couple other semi autos.
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Amazon has the Trijicon HD's for $125, to my door in 2 business days. If anyone knows where to beat that price, let me know. Brownell's and Midway are both about $135.
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Trijicon on my 19. I don't remember the model number of the sights, I just looked until I found some I liked. They show up good day or night.
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