Im looking at picking up this slide but I want to have a night front and rear I believe. How is the front Tritium sight or should I consider replacing both the front and rear with something better?
This will be a EDC rotation carry/range tool so I want to have it set up well…
My ameriglo sights have been great. If using a red dot, i prefer to only have the front sight as a tritium night sight. That way the dot I need to focus on is either the red dot or the glowing front dot.
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With training draw in low-light (indoors ect) are you able to pick up the sight in a suitable way? I won’t have my RDS right away but just trying to see if I will want to change anything or leave this the way it is and just buy a barrel and recoil spring (Glock)
I’d personally invest in a light over trit/glowy sights. Sure you may be able to see your sights, but can you see what the potential target is? If you run a light in the dark with trit sights, they become black anyway. I just run blacked out sights even on my non optic guns.
I also shoot target focus with irons so instead of a dot to line up I just line up the flat blurry sights. Trying to use a front dot on the sight in my case wouldn’t work as well.
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I can pick up the sight and practice with my red dot both on and off. With a red dot, there is also the notion that the window itself is a sight, although big. That would be for super close up only, and i pray i am never in that situation or honestly in any situation where i have to draw or defend myself or family.
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Thanks! I think I’m going to run the slide as is with the tritium it comes with it - I will be adding a Holosun shortly after to the slide… I’ll leave the black rear sight as is and if I decide later i’ll just buy a single rear lower 1/3rd night
The Holosun I have has a notch in the rear iirc
The K models have that. The C/RMR cut ones are flat.
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I’m not a fan of these sights. I don’t prefer a radius at the bottom of the rear sight notch. On top of that I find it hard to find any positive to having a night up front, and no tritium on the rear sight.
In the dark it’s distracting as you natural want to try to line up the rear sight with the front, but even if you lined them up you wouldn’t know it. In a SD situation where I get caught in the dark I’d rather just rely on my ability to point the pistol in the direction I want to fire instead of thinking about the front sight that’s glowing. On top of that the front dot is way too small. I much prefer my new PSA slide with the F/R night sights. They are standard height, without a optics cut though.
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I have to agree with @Jroc734 - the tall tritium front night sight that comes with a Dagger are kind of ‘meh’, although my reasons for thinking that are different.
My main complaint is that the tritium dot is basically blacked out in the front blade, so during day use, the front sight looks like it’s flat black. Obviously on an optic pistol, the irons don’t matter so much, but I find it helps me find the dot much faster if I have some visibility of the front sight. Now, that said, were it the AmeriGlo tall front night sight that comes with the white (or orange or green if you prefer) dot surrounding the tritium insert, I think it would solve that complaint, and I would like it.
For a pistol with an optic, the front sight is really just an aid to finding the dot faster, so I would not feel the need for having tritium on the rear sight.
The radius on the rear sight is kind of a moot point, IMHO, because both of my optics (one a Holosun 407A, and the other a Primary Arms ‘classic’ RMR footprint) are tall enough to obscure the rounded notch. That said, if all I had was irons with only a night sight front (eg: my Ruger LCP Max), I would prefer the round notch rear over the square notch rear. At night, all I’d be doing is point-shooting, and during the day, that’s a very accurate setup for me.
For reference on what I’m running - I have 2 optic daggers, one with the HighViz tall front fiber optic sight (love this for daytime or nighttime with light use), and one with the PSA factory stock tritium front sight (love this at night/in low light, but not during the day or when running a light at night). I am planning to replace the front tritium sight with one of the AmeriGlo’s of the same height that have the white dot surrounding the tritium.
I’d also concur with @Jroc734 - the standard height night sights on the Daggers are my favorite night sights on any gun I’ve ever had (admittedly a short list - Glocks and a Ruger LCP Max). I like them so much, I’ll probably retrofit them on my pistols that don’t have them.