Hand gun sights? What do you prefer?

[ADAMS75]

I have handguns with three dot sights, three dot night sights, fiber optic, all black, all black with red ramp front sight, but my favorite and the one I can bring to target best is on my P239 sig, it has the front dot and a single line under the rear notch. What is your best or favorite?

 

[Orbie]

I’d have to say the ones I practice with the most, which are on my conceal carry.

 

[Moonpie]

Carry gun - Novaks - rear with tritium bar under rear notch. Front with tritium dot.
Range gun - rear-flat black square notch. Front-flat black blade.

 

[smw66]

I have four different guns with four completely different sights of iron sights, but I shoot them all pretty much the same.

 

[m5215]

All of my pistols have standard 3 dot sights with most of them being the standard white and the others green tritium night sights. These two styles are my favorite so that is all I use. I am not into any of the newer electronic sights as I prefer standard iron sights on all my firearms.

 

[smw66]

All of my pistols have standard 3 dot sights with most of them being the standard white and the others green tritium night sights. These two styles are my favorite so that is all I use. I am not into any of the newer electronic sights as I prefer standard iron sights on all my firearms.

I don't like red dot sights at all.

 

[Leadeye]

While I love old handguns, my social security age eyes can't make use of them very well. A few years back a friend introduced me to red dot sights and that's what I now use on my working gun.

 

[zackmars]

3 dot tritium with a front ring, rear square notch

 

[AZ Refugee]

3 dot tritium

 

[Byrd666]

https://www.heinie.com/30055l-1911-ledge-straight-eight-night-sight-set.html

 

[MTA]

I shoot best with 3 dots that have contrasting colors. Rear green dots with orange front dot, etc.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Depends on gun for me.
Auto loaders get three dot.
Revolvers get all black maybe a white bar or dot on front blade.
Not a fan of fiber optics on iron sites.

 

[Hoji]

Carry gun - Novaks - rear with tritium bar under rear notch. Front with tritium dot.
Range gun - rear-flat black square notch. Front-flat black blade.

Who uses sights on their carry gun? Shoot from retention for the win( and to be clear, the win is being able to give your side of the story through a competent lawyer)

 

[HCS]

I have always been happy with the old white outline rear with red ramp front, followed by second choice of the three dot sights,
personally never cared for the fiber optic (had two fall out somehow)

 

[Sasquatch]

I like a thin, high visibility front blade with a wide square notch blacked out rear, or an all black set if I've got a light on the gun. I used to like night sights, but have come to think that they're kind of pointless. In low light, if you can't see your sights - you can't see your target. If its bright enough to clearly ID your target, the little glowy sights are kind of useless and a sharp front sight blade is more advantageous for accurate, aimed fire. A brightly painted front sight blade is more useful - I like the chartreuse / "high viz yellow" sights more than orange as they're more eye-catching to me.

Of course, when I can afford it, I've decided I'm going to put a red dot on my primary defensive pistol. The dot sight has more advantages than disadvantages. At that point I'm going to throw a set of AmeriGlo's all black, suppressor height sights on as backups. I'm just not quite ready to drop the price of a whole nother pistol into upgrading my current gun, because it either means buying a slide cut for the optic, or having mine cut and refinished, plus the cost of the optic.

 

[Dawico]

I’d have to say the ones I practice with the most, which are on my conceal carry.

These for me.

 

[Leadeye]

For me a working gun is one I carry when I'm out in the woods. This rig does all I ask of it, from protection to pest elimination. I've moved over the years from Browning HP to Beretta M9 to here, all because of steadily declining eyesight.

 

[Sasquatch]

For me a working gun is one I carry when I'm out in the woods. This rig does all I ask of it, from protection to pest elimination. I've moved over the years from Browning HP to Beretta M9 to here, all because of steadily declining eyesight.

How is that longslide 10 to shoot?

 

[tonelar]

fixed / stock

never cared for adjustables (seen them rattle and bump themselves loose enough times)

 

[Glenn B]

I have handguns with three dot sights, three dot night sights, fiber optic, all black, all black with red ramp front sight, but my favorite and the one I can bring to target best is on my P239 sig, it has the front dot and a single line under the rear notch. What is your best or favorite?

I prefer the stock sights that come with the gun in most cases and I prefer them to be iron (steel) sights. I dislike it very much, that several years ago, Glock switched to polymer sights on their pistols but I can live with it or change them.

I do not like fiber optic sights (I carry for self defense and do not want frail sights) nor do I like red dot, plastic orange ramps, night sights. I mean Trijicon and so on because I learned when and if the front sight fails, you are unable to use the sights in low light and believe me they can and do fail - luckily for me it was at the range. Anyway those types of night sights make it take longer to get a good on target sight picture when in low light situations. I've witnessed that over and over again hundreds of times with scores, if not hundreds, of shooters who used them when I had collateral duties as a LE firearms instructor. We timed the shooters, some took multiple seconds more to get sighted in while using them in low light training.

I also do not like battery operated sights on any defensive gun, that is unless there is the back up of iron sights or glass optics.

As for white dots or whatever versus plain black sights, the dots sure do help those older eyes of mine. I like white, no red or orange or zombie green.

What would be excellent on pistols, in my estimation would be something akin to Ghost Ring Sights (except for the fact they would require a whole new breed of holster I suppose). I wonder, do they make them for pistols?