Need Glock advice

[Suburban]

Originally Posted by synergy

I'm a big fan of the Warren Tactical sights...so I'd get stock sights, then put in Heinie's or Warren's.

The stock adjustable sights are a joke, don't bother with them. Stock fixed sights are cheap plastic, have too small of a rear notch/ too wide of a front sight post, and many people find the thick white line on the rear sight distracting.

I don't care for 3-dot sights, but plenty of people use and like them. Night sights are a must to me, but I like the Warren and Heinie configurations (vertical). If you like 3 dots, the factory night sights are just fine.

+1 on all counts.

I have Heinie straight eight sights with the wide notch on my Glocks. Pretty much the same as the Warren Tactical sights, except they are serrated.

I still have a couple pistols with Trijicon and Mepro Tru-Glo sights. The light bars between the front sight and the edges of the rear sight are way too small. Front sights pretty much fill the whole notch and it's hard to tell if you've really got the pistol pointed straight. After discovering better sights, I started buying pistols with whichever sight set is cheaper, then I change em out with a good aftermarket set.

My rimfire conversion upper has the Glock adjustable sight. It's not so bad on the 22 slide, but I wouldn't have one on defense or competition pistol. A little too fragile.

[synergy]

To help everyone get on the same page, here is a little run down of the different sights that have been mentioned.


Left to right: warren tactical 2 dot, warren tactical, sevigny comp, sevigny carry 2 dot.


Warren Tactical 3 dot config sight picture.


Heinie Straight 8 sights on a Glock and 1911.


10-8 Sight picture.


Novak 3-dot rear sight (note recessed dots and notch relative to sight edges)


Meprolight 3-dot night sights


And XS big dots.