Ghost Ring night sights

[Guest jcoyle6]

I may be getting some Ghost Rings night sights as a part of a trade I am doing. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with them? I already have the traditional 3 dot night sights on my carry gun, but don't mind entertaining the idea of having the ghost ring sight installed. ... anyone?

[molonlabetn]

I've had ghost ring night sights on a couple shotguns and an AR... but on a pistol...? I'd expect that the higher sight profile might be prone to catching on clothing.

[Guest triggertime]

What people fail to realize about ghost ring sights on a handgun is that

the rear sight has to be close enough to your eye in order to ghost out

to really work as a ghost ring. And that's not practical, unless you like

getting peened in the eye by the slide every time you fire the gun.

And now that ghost ring rear sights for handguns are being marketed

with tritium dots, people are just lining up the three dots like regular

night sights, which makes the whole ghost ring concept redundant.

[Guest johnsuttontn]

I do agree with triggertime. I have them on my Glock 22. ( was on when bought.) You just line up like normal. Unless they are cheaper buy alot, just get the 3 dot sights.

[TN-popo]

What people fail to realize about ghost ring sights on a handgun is that

the rear sight has to be close enough to your eye in order to ghost out

to really work as a ghost ring. And that's not practical, unless you like

getting peened in the eye by the slide every time you fire the gun.

And now that ghost ring rear sights for handguns are being marketed

with tritium dots, people are just lining up the three dots like regular

night sights, which makes the whole ghost ring concept redundant.

+1

On a handgun, since the aperture is far enough away NOT to "ghost" out, all it does is obscure more of your vision / target.

[First Strike]

Just get you some XS big dot night sights, forget lining up the three and just dot the i.

[MacGyver]

Love them on my shotgun. Pistol - not so much.

[Dolomite_supafly]

I have had them on a pistol. Never really liked them and they actually slowed down rapid fire. It did help accuracy during slow fire at a distance but not up close.

Dolomtie

[Guest VolGrad]

Well, with handgun sights you actually are supposed to line up the top of the front post and the the tops of the rear notches (as opposed to the actual dots) so ......

I vote no.

[Guest Seraph]

As others have stated, ghost ring type sights don't really bear their intended effect when used on a pistol. You can get the effect you're after, however, with various "U-notch" sights. Novak has a sort of half-ring sight, which is really a very generous U-notch sight. XS Big Dot sights use a wide shallow "V" to do the same thing. I myself prefer a totally black rear sight, with a slightly widened rear notch, either square or U-shaped, and with just a single dot up front, whether white, metallic, or tritium. For instance, on my M&P, I'm using a 10-8 U-notch rear sight, with a brass bead front sight. This is very quick, for me, and yet very precise, when I need that.