What seems to work the best. How wide should the front sight and rear notch be? White outlines on the front only, all three or none at all? Same colored tritium or yellow rears?
I appreciate your help.
I run green on green Trijicons, they work really well for me. The contrasting front/rears are nice, but in my experience the colors other than green lacked brightness.
I like meps alittle better than Trij as they seem to be larger vials
but thats me.
Front and rear alignment is important, so have tritium on both ends. For three dots, I prefer to have a green front and yellow rear to distinguish them. However, I would suggest getting Warren Tactical or Heinie straight-8 sights. Dot over dot gives you better alignment on the horizontal shooting plane(more crucial than vertical), and there is no chance of getting your sight alignment confused as you can with 3-dot setups. I do much better overall in my shooting with Heinies on my duty Sigs.
I prefer the trijicon, 3 green dot. The green is brighter than any other color and is still easy for me to distinguish the front site from rear. I love the way they look on my nightstand when Im in bed, pitch black in the room and the only thing I see is 3 glowing green dots 
best night light ever
That is kinda like asking if you like Fords, chevys or Dodges. I hate three dot sights, but if I have to use them I prefer them to be yellow in the back and green up front. I like a single green up front or the straight 8 setup.
I just ordered a set of Ameriglo Idot sights with a green front and a yellow rear. I have used the Heine straight 8s in the past and I like the look of the Idot sights.
Good luck.
When I had my green Trij’s put on, the smith told me, “The main reason why there are yellow/green night sights on the market is because some non-gun-guy cops were mistaking the front dot for one of the rears.”
Try as I might I have never been able to misalign my night sights in the dark and have it feel at all like a natural shooting grip. :sarcastic:
I personal like a wide blank rear like a 10-8 or heinie, with a trijicon front white ring or hd (yellow or orange) The wide rear is very fast and there are no dots to mess with. Try several if you can it took me a little time i went from 3 dot to the blank rear but once i got used to it i like it much better.
When your senses are confused, and your heart rate is over 150bpm even the most experienced shooter can make the mistake. I had the chance to run through Quantico’s special weapons combat course last year. I served 5 years in the Army, then another 11 years as a LEO. I’ve been one of the tops shooters in my agency for all that time. During the night shoot they make you run a treadmill until your heart rate is around 170bps, then with low light and emergency lights flashing you do a course of fire. A number of shooters, including myself observed possible sight alignment problems with 3-dot systems under these conditions.
Train to be your best, but be prepared to not be your best under combat conditions. Adjust your equipment accordingly.
I run meprolights on my USP45. Green front yellow rear.
I have an Ameriglo front tritium (.140" wide)on my G-19 & 26 with a plain black rear (.165" notch).
I like straight 8’s and have them on all my semi-auto’s (well except for the one that has a Deltapoint)…one of our two nightstand is a revolver(my wife doesn’t like semi-autos) and I have an XS big dot on it.
+1. This is my favorite set-up as well. The white ring plus trijicon up front is very fast and visible in daylight or at the range while still being low-light capable. These front sights are the only thing that seem as effective as my gold beads in well lit conditions.
I was very happy to discover these as I was torn between gold beads and night sights. I actually had six 1911s with beads and three with trijicons (had replaced several Trijicons with beads) prior to finding the white ring Trijicon front sight. Now I am going through the converting process on my best carry guns to these sights.
The wide rear sight is excellent for accuracy while still very fast as well. I have one wide Hiene Slant Pro Straight Eight wide rear that I really like and will do these or wide Novaks on those other carry guns that I change out. Expensive changing all of this stuff but well worth it to have the ideal sights for all conditions.
Check out the Trijicon HD’s. I think they offer a better daylight sight picture and the subdued rears will keep you from having low light alignment issues.
There are a lot of options out there and what works for some may not work for you. I have run three dot tritiums and then a tritium dot in the front with tritium bars in the rear. I liked the bars in the rear better because three green dots got a little confusing for me under stress. I have since moved on to running a 10-8 rear sight on my duty gun and plain clothes gun. The rear has a wide notch and no tritium. I find that, at least for me, this set up works best. It’s quick and still plenty accurate.
Kyle Lamb has apparently designed a new front and rear sight set that utilizes tritium AND fiber optics. At first glance it looks incredibly busy to me… but who am I shrug off a design from someone like Kyle Lamb? I’d like to try them out one of these days. Here is a link:
Thanks for the link, that is very interesting. I wonder how running that
sight up front and all black in back would work out. I suppose you could train through any point of aim change issues from day to night transitions (if it even is an issue). I would like to try one of these.
I have hoped that someone would actually insert a tritium vial into a slightly wider fiber optic and market it (if that it is even possible). This
looks like the next best thing.
These sights look like they may be the next best thing to tritium inside of a fiber optic. Running the front sight only with a 10-8 style rear would be an interesting set up. If I can bring myself to drop $200.00 on the Viking Tactics sights, I’ll give it a try and let you know. I’m still waiting on my tax return though 
Yep, that would be slick. On their website it looks like they are only sold as a set. When I get back to the states I think I will call them to see if they would sell the front sight alone.
Thinking about it, as infrequently as most of us use our night sights, this thing is really a good set-up. Worth the cost to find out.
Another thing that I noticed that I like is they keep the fiber optic in a square front sight post. I do not like the round profile fiber optic that is on one of my Smith and Wesson revolvers.
I prefer a tritium front / plain rear with a wider notch.
Did you adjust your adjust your equipment accordingly, or keep the 3-dot and train to it?