Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Glock night sights or aftermarket?

I prefer the hackethorn as a combat situation requires no rear sight....and a precision situation requires no distraction. The hackethorn checks all the boxes.

I prefer night sights and the fact that they are metal instead of plastic also makes me happier.

When a new batch of G22s and 23s came in I would take ten of them to the PD range. I ran a mag of duty ammo through each fast and finished with 5 rounds from 25 yards, wrists rested on a bag and holding six-o clock on a post-it note on the head of a B27. These pistols were ordered with OEM night sights and when we replaced them, duty ammo was 165 or 180 grain Federal HST. An Obama-induced ammo famine resulted in the two bullet weights.

Windage was always good and never entirely off either edge of the post-it note. 180's invariably printed above it, with a shot or two cutting the top edge and 165s more or less on it. I kept notes on this by serial number, to simplify POA/POI issues if they came up at qualifications.

None of what I learned in these sessions surprised me. 40/45 Glocks have generally shot 4-6 inches high for me at 25 yards with 180/230 grain bullets. The 17s/19s I've shot were better with 115s, again no surprise because they use the same sights.

I'm currently setting up an old Gen2 G22 as a beater farm, woods and carry gun. It'll be used with 180 grain defensive loads and same weight Speer Lawman or full boat 180 grain SWC reloads. This one will require a 0.180:" front sight to zero with standard 6.5mm/0.256" rear sights. I like the Ameriglo Classic front night sight with a white outline (GL112180) and have one on the way.

Sarge, is there a standardized bullet for each model of Glock.. I think my old 21 hit the best with 230’s for me anyway.

My G35 with a 9mm barrel seems to hit best with 147’s. That gun has after market sights on it, fiber optics.

That’s the trouble with ammunition shortages..... a guy finds a good load and it disappears.

What you like in pistol sights is based off of experience and vision. If a pistol has a dedicated white light, I like a thin fiber front with a plain black rear. If a light is not an option, a black wide rear sight with a orange/tritium front like theHD or Ameriglo. The black rear sight seems to push my eyes to he front sight a little faster. My biggest issue is that sights are fuzzy at this point

I don't recall anything definitive about that from three cycles of Armorer school, but after you've been to one they sotra put me to sleep My opinion is Glock 'aimed' for standardization with the most common bullet weights for each caliber, but various loads of the same bullet weight can shoot to different POI. This becomes noticeable at 25-50 yards and real apparent shooting at 100 yard plates. It is probably irrelevant to the defensive shooter but I've clobbered several 75-125 yard coyotes and groundhogs with whatever plastic pistol I was packing around the farm. I'll admit to being a little OCD about zero, If I miss something I want to know it was me and not the gun.

On line TLR-6 is <$100.

Tough decision amigos. A light plus laser vs couple pieces of metal with glowy inserts. Why do they call these things night sights? Is it because when they are new and guns lays in certain position relative to you it can be located in a dark room?

That’s my favorite setup. Green rear with an orange front. I have a Glock with the Glock branded night sites they get the job done but aren’t anything great. The best factory pistol sites that I’ve seen by far are the FNX 45 Tactical sites.