Night Sight question...

[cheezit]

xs 24/7 big dots. great combat sight.

[jmoney]

I just had the glock ones installed, they are pretty good

[E.Marquez]

I have always preferred Trijicon, have them on all three of my daily Carry guns, .... But I've owned and shot a set of TruGlo as well, and mostly liked them....with aging vision at very close distances only (like say the sights of a hand gun held at arms length) I'm having a set of TruGlow installed on one of my XD's to see how it goes.

[RPB]

I installed on Glocks myself and for police officers, not hard, you'll need a tube of Loctite (blue) for the front site, maybe a rubber hammer and a block of scrap wood as a soft anvil if you don't have something like the Glock sight tool for the rear sight..

I installed PT night sights, Meprolight, Triijicon back in the 1980s, big dots are good my issue with night sights is the dots are getting smaller as my eyes got older. I install tactical sights with a ledge you can use to rack the slide and although they don't glow, I prefer advantagetactical sights with orange rear yellow front nowadays, but if you must have glowing teeny weeny dots, get big dots and tactical sights.

Click on "Orange on the right, then click Yellow front sight on the left, you find the front sight fast against almost any color background, and make a triangle. Even with strong backlighting where you see no color, your triangle is easy, in low light, colors are bright, in dark caves where you need something that glows ... don't shoot, the cave ceiling may collapse and you'll go deaf from the echo. http://www.advantagetactical.com/colors.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Those are on all my Glocks and on my XD45
Finding the FRONT sight fast, even wearing trifocals... actually I can use these sights without my glasses, but the other sights I can't. That's good for midnight wakeup home defense.

[Medic218]

i only have after market sights on one of my fire sticks and I love em.
I put the XS Bog Dots on my XD and target acquisition is way easy now. I couldn't focus on the front sight for crap with the factory white dots but now its effortless.

[hirundo82]

i was looking at Glocks at Carter's Country on the west side of Houston and the guy there said their gunsmith does night sights on any handgun for $150, that's including the sights and labor. he didn't say what brand, but if there's a Carter's close to your area of town i'd give them a call and ask. everyone i talk to recommends Trijicon as well.

I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet--$150 is way too much to pay for sights + installation. For $150 you might as well just buy the sights and sight tool and do it yourself--you'll save money if putting them on more than one gun.

Installation is a 10-minute job at most; most places will install them for free if you buy the sights from them. A typical price to pay for installation if you already have the sights is $25.

[PappaGun]

i was looking at Glocks at Carter's Country on the west side of Houston and the guy there said their gunsmith does night sights on any handgun for $150, that's including the sights and labor. he didn't say what brand, but if there's a Carter's close to your area of town i'd give them a call and ask. everyone i talk to recommends Trijicon as well.

I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet--$150 is way too much to pay for sights + installation. For $150 you might as well just buy the sights and sight tool and do it yourself--you'll save money if putting them on more than one gun.

Installation is a 10-minute job at most; most places will install them for free if you buy the sights from them. A typical price to pay for installation if you already have the sights is $25.

I agree.
I had mine installed a few years ago for $25.
When I saw what the OP was quoting it seemed high so I thought maybe prices had jumped.
But I wouldn'tt pay more than $25.

[E.Marquez]

Home install.. even with a sight pusher is not always a grand idea.... Seen the dismal results, marked up sights or slides right up to destroyed parts.

Like Tools bought used horribly to work on motor vehicles.. Gun smithing.. just because you have money to buy tools does not make you a gun smith.
$100 for Trijicon installed on an XD or the like is a fair price. Other models and sight types will very some. (But $150. is a bit steep )

[jcarp02]

I ended up getting the Trijicon night sights installed. I bought them at the Arms Room for $125 and they installed them for free and did it right then. I didn't have to leave it with them or anything. They said just to install them if I already had them was $35, and the cheapest I saw them online was about $90 after shipping, so it basically came out the same.