Pro Glo Sights

[Guest CK1]

Just posted this in a thread over at Glocktalk, but I'm so impressed with these things and the service that I received from Rick and Ameriglo, I thought I'd repost it over here since these things look like they're going to positively rock for competition shooting as well as general all-around carry sights.

These are at the Glock stock factory height of .165" as opposed to the common in the competition scene taller .256" height, and I'm sure some may feel that a .140 wide front is not going to suit them... that said, by doing the math, these come out to about the same ratios found on the popular set-up of a longer sight radius G34 equipped with the fine Warren/Sevigny comp sights, except these are on a shorter sight radius G17 giving a slightly wider and lower format which I feel works a bit better as a do-it-all carry/comp sight package (JMHO).

Anyways, they're different and unique in the marketplace, might be something some guys over here may be looking for... Ameriglo makes sights for lots of different guns, but for Glocks, no one is currently producing nearly as many options as they are.

Here's what one looks like up close, it's a tritium dot (trijicon vial) surrounded by a bold day-glo red-ish/orange circle, .165"x.140".

Here's the post:

So I installed my Ameriglo Pro Glo front sight... It's awesome.

These pics are lousy since they're taken with my iPhone in less than optimum lighting/focus conditions but here they are just so someone can kind of see... I have an Ameriglo pro series plain black serrated rear sight with a .180 wide notch (I don't like tritium rears, but that's just me, the Operators are the tritium version of the same sight in case you're wondering) - comes out to just about a perfect 40% light bar-to-front-sight-width ratio. (I know an extra-wide .180 wide notch may seem crazy to some, but it's all in the math and what your eyes perceive, matching the .180 notch to the .140 front looks like what you see when you're looking through a common .150 wide rear notch at a .115 wide front blade... you're eyes center it perfectly, the front doesn't "swim", don't knock it 'till you tried it.)

(Achtung!- these pics don't show proper focus, makes the front look too small, way smaller than it looks in person. - and these are shown on a G17 in case you're wondering.)

Add a little sunlight (opened the blind behind me a bit), and holy cow that front jumps out.

I can already tell they're super fast to pick up and the added light bars/space around the front blade should lead to more precision out around 15-25 yards, not to mention that orang-ish red is not really a color found in nature/out-in-the-world so your eyes go right to it (I think of it kind of like a fiber sight you won't break with tritium in the middle for using at night).

Just want to say that Rick and Ameriglo rule, they're making sights with options for guys who are thinking above the fray of the stupid "who's sights are brightest?" arguments and looking for something more, and they're always a better deal money-wise too, I thank them for that.

I'll put some rounds downrange and post my impressions soon... For now though, my impression is "Get a set of these."

Post #2:

Range 5 minutes from my house, first range report didn't take long...

All shots/targets are off-hand shooting good ol' WWB 115gr FMJ from the local Wallymart. Got some errands and stuff to take care of today so I shot only 100rds and was at the range for maybe 30 minutes total.

First 10 rounds cold at 10 yards, shot bang, bang, bang, etc, 1 shot per second...

A little left, but it was probably just me, I was feeling pretty good about the first 10 so I pushed the target out a little further...

Here's the rest of the box (40rds) at 15 yards shooting the same way (again about 1 round per second or so), I was trying on purpose to NOT take my time, but still maintain alignment... I shoot IDPA mostly so I was looking to get an idea on what these sights might do for me, this is NOT slow-fire by any means...).

Again, a little to the left, but my fault as usual... 1 flyer, otherwise just one big hole (but not too big... all zero's/A's).

I shot another box doing various rapid-fire from the draw drills... the front-sight-tracking was better than I've ever experienced before.

Here's a pic of approximately 30 rounds to the head back at 10 yards drawing from concealment. I did a mix of draw-to-1 shot, draw-to-double-tap, and some failure-to-stop drills (2 to the body COM, 1 to the head... that's where the other 20 rounds went, they all went through the hole I made previously, thus no pic needed)...

I used my iPhone Surefire Shot Timer App and averaged a 1.8s first shot with a .30 split time for subsequent shots which is already better than average for me, especially from concealment (zip-up hoodie) using my new favorite holster, the cheap $12 plastic Glock Sport/Combat holster (rules, try one, not even kidding).

Again, still left... but I'll take it, as normally for me at 10 yards, drills to the head like this aren't nearly as pretty...

Once I got back to the house I noticed that I had installed the front sight a hair crooked to the right, so that's good news as I fixed it and that should help some in moving my shots over to the right slightly.

My first impression after shooting these new sights exactly once and not taking a whole lot of time to do it is: far and away the best sights I've ever used, period.

I'm psyched and can't wait for some more practice and my first match using these (which won't be until at least 3/13 due to my work/travel schedule which is lame).

I can already tell, these are a good change, and worth the try... I feel like I improved after just shooting these once, and the groupings make it painfully obvious that I've got some grip/trigger/stance work to do to stop pulling to the left... it's NOT the sights that's for sure, they rock, in the hands of someone who can really shoot, like a GM, these should be SUPER FAST, I'm still new to IDPA and as of yet am an unclassified shooter... these sights will help, not hurt, my progress I'm sure.

My match gun IS my carry gun, it's a 3rd gen G17 that has a Lone Wolf 3.5 connector in it and I've done the ubiquitous $.25 trigger job to it, otherwise it's stock (stock/factory 17lb recoil spring assembly), so after loading up +P Gold Dots, it's on my hip and I'm off to knock out my errands...

It wasn't until later in the day that I realized I hadn't been telling myself to pull the trigger straight back (the self reminder is a must for me sometimes), so that, plus my excitement to shoot the new sights (not to mention putting it on crooked like a dope) was most likely why I was pulling the shots left I think... shooting is hard, good sights help.

Bought the sights straight off Ameriglo's site (ameriglo.net), the prices are really good but use "gssf" at checkout and it's less 20%. The serrated rear I've got is in the closeout bin at $23 (GL-405L, it only lists GL-406L which is at the height for .45/10mm but just put 405L for a 9/40/357 in the comments if that's what you need), they've got other plain rears that'll work too (a smooth plain rear might even be nicer), the front was $49... so it's a pretty economical set-up.

If you have any questions just drop 'em a call or an email, they're very helpful nice people to deal with.

Mall-Ninja pic.

Edited February 26, 2010 by CK1

[Bigiron]

Very informative. Thanks for posting. Apparently, you are a very accurate handgunner.

[Guest cheez]

That some fine shooting right there.

[Guest CK1]

Very informative. Thanks for posting. Apparently, you are a very accurate handgunner.

Thanks man, I'm getting there, these sights make something that's really hard, a little less hard. My groups are usually more erratic than that, I noticed that it's as though the bright orange dot had my eyes not working quite as hard to keep it centered compared to the sights I had been using.

If I had some pics of some older targets shot recently with my old sight set-up you'd see the difference that these made right away.

[Guest CK1]

Forgot to mention that Rich@Ameriglo was cool enough to send me a .125 wide square profile version w/o tritium without me even asking, just in case I didn't like the Pro Glo.

Looks like this one on the right, except with no tritium in the center:

This will work well even with a stock Glock .150 wide notch rear... I'd be happy to drop it in an envelope to anyone who'll use it for free, as long as you promise to keep the good karma alive by buying any new rear sight to match it with, if you decide to, from the good folks at Ameriglo.

Just PM me.

[kwe45919]

Very informative...I actually just caught the other thread on GlockTalk...

...those are a great option.....wonder how they'd work with the Ghost ring rears on my 26???

Just sent them an email inquiring if the Pro Glows would work with my ghost ring.....Hope they do..

Edited March 1, 2010 by kwe45919