Just installed these new Aimline sights on a friends Glock 19

[GLOCKROCKER]

Guess I'll post this here on "other" firearms since they are currently only available for Glocks. I ran across these sights online the other month and recommended them to a friend, actually my barber for the past 44 years. He is a semi newbie at shooting handguns and was having some issues with sight picture. He purchased these and I just finished installing them on his G19. I LIKE these sights! Took it out back and ran a mag through it. They are very intuitive and extremely fast acquisition to target. I think they may help him with sight picture. As soon as they come out in tritium I will buy a set for my G26. I sure wish they would make them for Kahrs. The only thing I don't like is they have to be aligned covering your target (POI), much like the sights on my CM9 and CW45. I prefer a 6 o'clock hold. Here's a halfa$$ pic and the website. www.aimline.com
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[ltxi]

Don't know that I care for those, sorry. Sad case that I am, I actually like the stock Glock sights.

[Scarywoody]

Thanks. Never heard of Aimline before. I like the old three dot system. I'd glow paint the front green or red or something.

[GLOCKROCKER]

I can shoot the stock sights but don't care much for them. When I shoot stock Glock sights I don't pay any attention to the "U", I just align the sights as if they were blacked out, regular iron sights. I have Trijicon 3 dot on all my Glocks and they work pretty well for me, but I think I could acquire a decent sight pic with these Aimlines faster. Need to do some timed plate runs with them if I can get up with my buddy at the range one of these days. Nothing to be sorry about Itxi - shoot what works for you.

[340pd]

I like the Aimlines. I went with Ameriglo i-Dots. It is whatever floats your boat. Let's face it, if we suddenly needed to fire our guns for SD, few will remember the sight picture anyway.

[marcinstl]

sights make me crazy. one of these days I'm going to buy a Colt New Agent and kiss sights goodbye. apparently as a person gets older they might have symptoms of "Presbyopia"-- target at 5-25 yds. is clear, sights are blurry to fuzzy blobs. I need an oversize rear sight and a large front sight, w/ blinking LED. I recently shot an HK 45 Tactical and those are the best sights I've worked with.
apparently these sights are "high profile"(big!) so the shooter can look over the top of the suppressor . "ball in the bucket" Glock sights work for me too. Kahr sights are ok.
why can't the smaller production gun makers use sights from major gun makers, or at least use the same machining dimensions, or why aren't sights standardized for interchangeability?

[Bill K]

... Let's face it, if we suddenly needed to fire our guns for SD, few will remember the sight picture anyway.

Remember the sight picture? Many, maybe even most, will not even obtain a sight picture if the SD incident takes place at close range. Because I believe this true is why I'm an advocate of more practice and training point shooting than sight shooting.

[yqtszhj]

Those are interesting sights there glockrocker. Better than the ball in a bucket stock sights. 340pds sights are good too.

I'm hooked on the kahr style dot the I sights. I used a sharpie to color in the stock sights to be bar and dot. I struggle more left to right than up and down so they work pretty well for me like that.

[ltxi]

sights make me crazy. one of these days I'm going to buy a Colt New Agent and kiss sights goodbye. apparently as a person gets older they might have symptoms of "Presbyopia"-- target at 5-25 yds. is clear, sights are blurry to fuzzy blobs. I need an oversize rear sight and a large front sight, w/ blinking LED. I recently shot an HK 45 Tactical and those are the best sights I've worked with.
apparently these sights are "high profile"(big!) so the shooter can look over the top of the suppressor . "ball in the bucket" Glock sights work for me too. Kahr sights are ok.
why can't the smaller production gun makers use sights from major gun makers, or at least use the same machining dimensions, or why aren't sights standardized for interchangeability?

Gunfighting 101: Focus on the front sight, not the rear nor the target....repeat out loud 25 times.

Especially with age, other than pitch black/with any real ambient light at all gold bead fronts are the best out there.

[Bawanna]

I'm on the wrong side of the tracks for Gold but I put a Brass Bead on my C Bob and it's the cats back side. I like it vera vera much.

Amazing how much that shiny piece of brass picks up any available light too. I'm vera happy.

[marcinstl]

"Gunfighting 101: Focus on the front sight, not the rear nor the target"
I think you want to change that to Target shooting 101. gunfighting 101 would be more like, get the gun out of the holster, zoom your eyes in on the target(just like pitching a baseball), depress the trigger, repeat, etc., change magazine. (elapsed time: 2-3 seconds?) when your on the second magazine consider transitioning to sighted shooting if the threat(s) are now out past 5 yds.

[ltxi]

Perhaps I should have said Shooting 101. At this point in my life some things are long ago learned "truths" coupled with instinctive what works for me experience, so I thought more about it. Some truth in what you wrote although I don't fully agree nor buy the baseball pitching analogy. If you have an arm you can point shoot well under stress then I agree sights are irrelevant...otherwise not. Ignoring that is what leads to spray and pray, a misguided luxury that came with high cap autos. One reason I like gold beads so much is they pick up really well without any effort or conscious thought. Trit fronts are better, of course, in really dark out but not as good with decent ambient light and they need replacement after five to ten years.

[ltxi]

I'm on the wrong side of the tracks for Gold but I put a Brass Bead on my C Bob and it's the cats back side. I like it vera vera much.

Amazing how much that shiny piece of brass picks up any available light too. I'm vera happy.

Shiny be the key. Gold is better but no way worth the cost delta over clean, shiny brass unless one has more money than sense. That would be me....not like I have all that much money, just not a whole hell of a lot of sense.

[Bawanna]

Aw, I've found my twin separated at birth, senseless poor bastard that likes Gold.

[Longitude Zero]

Ugly. Not a fan. I like my Dawson adjustable night/fiber sights.