Night Sights On Your CCW?

[Lawdwaz]

Do you have night sights on your CCW?  If so, what's your brand & model of choice and do you install them yourself or farm it out to a 'smith?

Mostly curious about installation on a Glock.

[Nomad]

Yes Larry I do . Can’t recall the brand right now , but I like them ! The front sight is both a night sight and a bright orange one in day light , the sights really pop in sunlight . I had them installed at a shop I bought them through .

I got them as the white dot in the front sight , fell out of the sight shooting one day ….so I bought new sights,wasn’t looking for night sights per se , but I do like them .

[mowin]

I've often thought about it, but never did anything with my .40 shield. 

[Buckmaster7600]

Yes, trijicon I bought a sight pusher so I do it myself. Most any decent gun shop has a sight pusher and usually installs for free if you buy from them. A serious ccw pistol needs night sights and a weapon mounted light. Bad stuff happens at night seeing your target and your sights are critical in winning!

[Swamp_bucks]

I want them for my shield.  Don’t mind the sights but I really want something better

[Nontypical]

I’m a fan of the X-ray 3 sights made by Sig. Obviously they won’t work on your Glock. There are several others that also use tritium. Ameriglo comes mind. I recently picked up a sight pusher from MGW. It works great and I can finally fine tune a few of them that were slightly off. 

[dbHunterNY]

Siglite night sights. Just their factory tritium sights front and back. Now they might call them XRay. They work great. Worked great on a bear hunt and indoors where it was so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of you.

[dbHunterNY]

13 hours ago, Buckmaster7600 said:

Yes, trijicon I bought a sight pusher so I do it myself. Most any decent gun shop has a sight pusher and usually installs for free if you buy from them. A serious ccw pistol needs night sights and a weapon mounted light. Bad stuff happens at night seeing your target and your sights are critical in winning!

that's something I've always contemplated after a retired SWAT guy I know said he'd prefer separate light. said it gives you a tactical advantage clearing rooms because your body doesn't necessarily need to be behind the light. He said a con is you've got to hang on to it. No idea what the context was though and if he did the same when on the job kicking in doors.  I think he had a weapon light that was quick disconnect on his personal stuff. I don't have any real world experience to weigh in. Thoughts? 

[GencountyZeek]

My  primary carry guns have them. Both from the factory. The one I know has Trijicons on it. 

[Buckmaster7600]

39 minutes ago, dbHunterNY said:

that's something I've always contemplated after a retired SWAT guy I know said he'd prefer separate light. said it gives you a tactical advantage clearing rooms because your body doesn't necessarily need to be behind the light. He said a con is you've got to hang on to it. No idea what the context was though and if he did the same when on the job kicking in doors.  I think he had a weapon light that was quick disconnect on his personal stuff. I don't have any real world experience to weigh in. Thoughts? 

I don’t clear rooms for a living any more when I did I wasn’t using a handgun. For a civilian a weapon mounted light is a very good idea if you’re willing to get trained in how to use it. I still carry a light on my person as part of my edc kit. My weapon light will only ever be used in times when my manual safety “if I used guns with them” would be placed in the fire position. 

[Lawdwaz]

1 hour ago, GencountyZeek said:

My  primary carry guns have them. Both from the factory. The one I know has Trijicons on it. 

Do you still work for the gun shop?

[Belo]

my bedside 1911 has a nice light/laser combo on it and my pocket ruger lcp has a laser too. I have wanted to put night sites on my g23 forever but just never got around to it.

[GencountyZeek]

On 3/1/2023 at 2:06 PM, Lawdwaz said:

Do you still work for the gun shop?

Rarely, i stop in to say hi and end up helping. They sell trijicons and will install if you purchase the sites there.