Best Night Sights--UPDATE: Decided and Installed w/PICS

What can I say…I’m a giver.

Forgot to ask this earlier:

You’re doing this on a 9mm/.40/.357 sig Glock, right? The sight pusher I have only works on the 9mm sized Glocks, not the .45ACP sized Glocks.

Correct, subject is a G19 (9mm).

Welp, it looks like the Trijicons have the same size front and rear dots. Although different colors are available, I don’t think that would work as well for me as the different sized dots.

The Ameriglo’s provide a different size option, costing $99 for either the conventional or ramped profile.

The Warren’s provide both a different size and color, but for the 3-dot config cost a hefty $128.

The 2-dot, however, is the marginally more palatable cost of $115. I might actually like this set-up the best anyway. I’ve used similar designs among some non-night sights (I think the original Kahrs used to come with something like this).

Shall wait a day or so to make sure of the choice, but likely go ahead with the 2-dot Warrens.

Thanks again, eviebuddy ! ! ! :stuck_out_tongue:

I remember now, in addition to the Kahr K9…

…it was also the Tappan sight by Kings Gunworks that I had on a 1911 years ago (I just now borrowed this pic off a chat board somewhere).

What is a good Glock 9mm sight pusher and where to buy?
Thanks.

The MGW tool is probably the most widely used. I believe armorers like GotM4 have expressed greater satisfaction with that tool than with the Glock branded tool. You can get them from lots of places. I bought my Ameriglo tool years ago from GlockMeister.

I used to have an MGM sight pusher for 1911’s. It was a well-made item.

There are two different kinds of sight pushers that MGW makes for Glocks. One is for standard angled side sights like meps, trijicons, and Ameriglo. The other is for higher and straight sided sights like heinie and sevigny rear sights.

I have the straight sided MGW rear sight pusher. I’ve used it to push the standard angled side sights with no problem. None were a tight fit.

Green front and yellow rear. Three dot. Front sight has white circle but rear is all black. Rear is wider. Great sight picture.

For NS I’ve had meps, trijicon, and sivegny carry and I prefer ameriglo operator pro.

I take crappy pics but here ya go.

At work I have two MGW Glock sight tools (old and new style) and three Glock OEM sights tools (old style, two 9mms and one 10mm). I only use the OEM sight tools for installing Trijicons on Glock slides, for everything else I install the rear using the MGW tools.

As of the last 8 months or so I’ve had to start using the OEM tools to remove the factory rear. Glock changed the construction of the factory rear sights and if the sight tool doesn’t push the sight low enough it’ll push the plastic part right off of the metal part and leave the metal part in the dovetail. The OEM sight tool supports the complete side of the rear sights. For front sights I have about 4-5 nutdriver tips from various places. For starting the screw I use the aluminum 3/16" nutdrivers that come with Dawson Glock front sights. Then once it’s started well I use one of the steel front sight tools. I use blue or red Loc-Tite on the front sight screws.

Installing sights on a Glock takes me about 3 min.
SIG-Sauer pistols takes me about 5 min.
Kimber pistols takes me about 15 min depending on the brand of sights.
HK pistols takes about 4 min.
M&Ps take about 5 min.
XDs pistols take about 5 min of labor but I stick the slide in the freezer for a min of 20 min before attempting to make the sights slide off more easily. Sometimes I have to do that with Kimber slides too.

Those are way-cool pics! Making me think again about the Ameriglo. I didn’t realize the front/rear colors were different – they don’t look it from their web-site pics (copied above). Is that an extra option? ETA - I see now from their web site that green-green or green-yellow are offered.

Robb has the wayest-cool job in the world ! ! ! :smiley:

Do you need a sloped or straight MGW tool for installing Warren Tactical sights?

The newer straight/tall MGW tools works best but I’ve installed plenty using the older silver colored MGW standard Glock sight tool.

Incidentally that’s the best picture demonstration of why I don’t like standard 3 dot arrangements. Mind if I steal that picture to put into my low light writeup?

A mallet and a short nylon rod with a vice works great. On a glock takes 2-3 minites tops. Hk maybe 5 minutes (they are tight!!!). I have done a dozen or so glocks this way.

Sure, no problem. I look forward to reading it.

Well you don’t have to wait…it’s been tacked in the Tactics section for a while:

https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=16114

Thanks for allowing me to borrow that picture. I get questions about the sight portion of my writeup all the time as it relates to 3 dot setups, and your picture helps illustrate my point better than anything I’ve been able to take myself.

I suck at photography.

I’ll throw my two cents in: the yellow rear sights on my Trijicons are not nearly that bright. They are much more subdued, and allow the eye to be drawn to the much brighter green front sight.

I will say though, the green/green 3 dots I’ve had were more confusing than the yellow/green sights, and I can see how they could slow you down in dark conditions.

I’m torn between having Tooltech put in the yellow/green combo on my HK45, or try the Heinie’s.

Welp sirs, I decided on the Warren 2-dot set-up, and with hep from John_Wayne777 lending me his front-sight wrench and rear-sight pusher, got them in over the weekend. (Holster is FIST ultrathin kydex IWB with split-J belt loop.)

Had to make a couple test shoots and re-adjusts to get the windage just right – simply centering the rear sight on the slide isn’t precise enough. Elevation is non-adjustable. Aligning the tops of the front and rear sights like this:

puts point-of-impact about an inch high at 10 yards. Correct sight picture requires ignoring the outline of the irons and placing the front dot directly on top of the rear, like this:

which is what you would be doing under low-light conditions anyway, and looks like this:

So now I’m equally self-defended during either our short winter days or long winter nights. Thanks again to John_Wayne777 for the tools lend, and to everybody for the interest and feedback. :slight_smile:

i’m getting a set of trijicons installed (green/yellow) on my G19 as we speak…

i’m fascinated by those XS 24/7 sights, but i think i’d be frustrated with them when shooting precision at the range…

the trijicons cost less than heinies or XS sights even including installation too. :eek:

take the xs plunge you will not be disappointed. precision shooting issues with them is a myth. I can make headshots @ 40 yards with relative ease. practice with them like you would any other and you’ll be gtg. There is notheing better for quick shots on the move or speed draw and shoot.