Technical Tuesday: Glock Sight Upgrades

What night sights should I get to upgrade my Glock? Should I use a black rear sight? What sights make you shoot fast? What gun sights should I use with an RMR? Should I replace my stock Glock sights?

These are all the questions we are answering in today’s Technical Tuesday video!

It’s Technical Tuesday! This week, Trevor is talking all things sights–what we think works best and why.

A pistol sight system can feel like a very personal choice–not only is there the question of optic or non-optic but then there’s what kind and what height and what colors. We’re going to talk about what we picked, why we picked it, and why we think this is a great solution for most people.

Here at Shadow, we use a serrated black rear sight combined with one of three front sights: green outline tritium, red fiber optic, or black. Our recommended Glock sight upgrade and the most common configuration for our customers is serrated black rear sight combined with the green outline tritium front sight.

Some folks may feel that night sight systems require some kind of illumination on the rear sight. From a practical perspective, we prefer the plain black rear sight for two reasons.

1. You’re paying for it. Since illumination on the rear sight isn’t right for everyone, our production guns don’t come with it, that way if you choose to swap it for our recommended black rear sights in the future, you haven’t already paid a couple hundred bucks for illuminated rear sights that you won’t be using.

2. Adding illumination (dots or dashes) to the gun’s rear sight adds more chaos to the sight picture, meaning more stuff you need to focus on. If you look at the competition world, you will see that almost everyone running iron sights is using a plain black rear sight. This is because the rear sight isn’t something you want to be focusing on; all you focus should be on the front sight. When the gun is cycling fast, it is best to really just have one thing you need to focus on. If you’ve got dots and dashes on the rear sight that you need to try to line up, it does add to the chaos of everything you’re trying to track. The reality is, at night, if you’re scared and dealing with a potentially deadly threat, lining up dots and dashes and shifting your focus back to the rear sight is not the best use of your time. We believe at that point it is as simple as pressing that big green glowing front sight toward the target and pull the trigger and you’re probably going to get your hits.

The reason we like the green outline tritium front sight for a pistol is that during the daylight the green outline provides a nice bright focal point that has the feel of a fiber optic front and then at night the tritium lamp gives the benefit of the glowing green front to give you an index point at night.

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