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One of my carry guns is a Smith 5904 (4" 9mm aluminum frame doublestack) which had regular Novak sights on it. I was using a slide from another Smith with reasonably bright night sights on it but wanted to get the original slide back on with some fresh tritium.
I sent the slide off to Trijicon for a set of their yellow rear/green front night sights. For the price listed on their website, they will provide the sights, install them, and ship back your slide. This seems like a decent deal and the total turnaround was maybe three weeks.
Well, I got the slide back today and I honestly can't tell the difference in colors. The sights are certainly bright and I have no complaints. The price is the same so it didn't cost me anything. Next time I'l probably just go green all around.
Anyone else have experience with different color night sights?
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Yeah, my Ed Brown Kobra Carry has contrasting night sights. Reason for it is to avoid confusion at night, i.e., with three dots, you may not be sure if the back two are to the left of the front one, or the other way around, if all the same color. With contrast, you can't make that mistake. Bar/dot is designed to solve the same problem in a different way.
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Heine straight eight ledge pros are going on my G19
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I tried an orange front sight with a green (regular) rear and it drove me nuts. I seemed okay sighting across the living room, but it got really busy trying to do low-light shooting with some speed. Starting from scratch I prefer tritium on the front sight only with a wider rear notch, but that usually isn't on the menu for factory installed sights.
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Does anyone do an outline of the rear sight in Tritium like the companies incl S&W used to do in white? I am still a fan of that format. Such with a Tritium bar front sight would allow for precision shooting in good light and fast shooting in poorer light. Probably in the minority there, but they work for me quite well.
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A bar-dot would be the closest to that. You have to be careful how much tritium you put in the rear sight or it'll "blind" you. A lot of guys are going to a tritium front and just a plain black rear for that reason.
And a lot of older guys say they can see a fiber optic front about as well as they can find a tritium front.
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Heine straight eight ledge pros are going on my G19 I've got Heinie Straight-8's on a couple of my guns. I think it's the best tritium setup I've tried. The linear three dots arrangement works best if the front dot is a different color than the rear dots, and that's my second choice.
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I tried an orange front sight with a green (regular) rear and it drove me nuts. I seemed okay sighting across the living room, but it got really busy trying to do low-light shooting with some speed. Starting from scratch I prefer tritium on the front sight only with a wider rear notch, but that usually isn't on the menu for factory installed sights. Agreed. Front only would be ideal.
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I've tried 6 or so sights on my G 20. And have found none to be EXACTLY what I want. But for a night sight? Self defense?
Get the Novak Triniums. Bright and fast. Just not the accuracy I seek.
( I want a sight that will make my eyes 20 years old again! )
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I prefer tritium on the front sight only with a wider rear notch, Novak's will do just that, they use trijicon for the tritium.
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I tried an orange front sight with a green (regular) rear and it drove me nuts. I seemed okay sighting across the living room, but it got really busy trying to do low-light shooting with some speed. Starting from scratch I prefer tritium on the front sight only with a wider rear notch, but that usually isn't on the menu for factory installed sights. Dawson Precision can hook you up most likely, depending on what gun you need sights for.
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Depending on what sights are on a gun now, these guys can install a Tritium ampule in just your front sight if you want, whatever other configuration can be put into the existing sights. Depending on the gun, sometimes it's easier than installing completely new sights. ToolTechSights MM
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I have 2 sets of TruGlo TFO's on 2 XD's. All green on one and yellow and green on the other. I prefer the all green. The yellow is not as bright on the other set so your eye will go to the green front (they are made that way), but I don't like them as well as the all green.
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