Anyone using less than expensive night sights?

[Ringorock]

I just picked up a 19. I'm actually going to keep this 19. Sights are okay, but I'd rather have a high vis front, yellow post with two smaller tritium dots in the back to be close to my Sig Xray system. Now, I know I can get the Spendicons XR, but they're gah dang expensive. Anyone of you using a less spendy sight system and really happy with it?

 

[Ringorock]

Might even forego the rear tritiums for the Ameriglo Hackathorn?

 

[UptaCamp]

Ameriglow tritium sights have been good to me. All the sets that I have used have not lost their glow until after the 12 year mark.

 

[UptaCamp]

Might even forego the rear tritiums for the Ameriglo Hackathorn?

Those are a good choice, I almost recommended them in my above post.

 

[Bandwidth]

Decent sights are what...$70-80? How much cheaper are you wanting?

 

[Ringorock]

Decent sights are what...$70-80? How much cheaper are you wanting?

That's the range I'm looking at. Trijicons are $150. I ended up ordering the Ameriglos.

 

[cmshoot]

I refuse to use Trijicons anymore. They’re no better for the cost, and their CS is horrible.

AmeriGlo and Night Fision are excellent quality for a lot less money than Trijicon. I’m currently using both and like ‘em a lot.

 

[Dieseltech]

On my 19 with a holosun I’m running meprolight’s and I’m very happy with them. Obviously these are suppressor height. On my 19 without optics I have a set of tru-glo TFO’s that are probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 8-9 years old and still glowing strong. For the money both sets are good options and seem to take a beating, including racking the slide off the rear sight. In my experience the Glock factory night sights are garbage.

 

[l33571]

Agreed that Trijicon customer service sucks. Had a front sight break off in the middle of a drill and they replaced it as a one time coverage after saying it is improperly installed. I have switched to Ameriglo and have some Night Fission sights that I am getting ready to try out as well.

 

[yardboss1]

I have only owned a few guns that had night sights. I currently only own one. IMO they are a waste of money that could be applied towards a gun light or a crimson trace laser sight. Reason being is at some point they always go dim. You can replace the batteries in the gun light and laser sight.

What am I not understanding about the value of good night sights ?