Are factory Glock sights really THIS bad?

[plblark]

http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2012/01/for-savings-of-597-per-gun.html

ToddG is in the process of wringing out his new Glock 26:

The gun still has the stock plastic “sights” (it should be a law that you must put that word in quotation marks when referring to disposable plastic aiming nubbins) but things turned out all right.

Since Day One, Glocks have come from the factory with little plastic things that technically qualify as "sights" only due to the position they occupy atop the slide. They are frequently the first things replaced on the gun, sometimes because the owner wants to and sometimes because they have no choice.

Take my second Glock 23, for instance: I was using it in a casual action pistol match, one stage of which involved engaging a couple of close targets weak-hand-only around one side of a barricade, then reloading behind the barricade, leaning out around the other side, and engaging three pepper poppers at longer ranges.

*BANGBANGBANGBANG* I shot up the first set of targets and pulled the gun back behind cover, jammed in a full mag, rolled out around the other side, and... found myself having a hard time picking up the front sight. Not due to any lack of visual acuity, but because it didn't seem to be there anymore. I managed to get the seven-yard popper just by pointing the gun at it and squeezing off a couple rounds, but without the front sight, the 10- and 25-yard targets might as well have been on the moon as I futilely pumped the remaining eleven rounds into the berm. This will affect your score.

As it turns out, in my haste to get on with the stage I had banged the top of the slide against the barricade, and without really noticing, at that. I was finally able to pick up my front sight... out of the dirt a couple feet in front of the firing line. That made me a believer in putting more better sights on the gun right there.

[grousemaster]

No they're not. It's just one thing the Glock haters like to dwell on. The lower frame is also plastic, maybe that shouldn't be considered a "frame" either. Same with the trigger. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of Glocks being used on duty and in war zones have the factory sights.

[JeremiahMN]

He said "more better"

[bstrawse]

I've replaced the factory sights on all of my Glocks - except the G27 I have with Glock Night Sights
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[samginko]

Factory sights are good enough, but it is pretty easy to replace. My experience with the Glock sight is accidentally tapping the front sight againt the shooting bench and ended up with a little depression. It is plastic, malleable and easily damaged.

[Hammer99...]

The cheep plastic sights are one of the best things Glock did. The only thing I would like better is no sights at all. Why would I want to pay for iron sights that are only going to sit in a bin.

[grousemaster]

The cheep plastic sights are one of the best things Glock did. The only thing I would like better is no sights at all. Why would I want to pay for iron sights that are only going to sit in a bin.

True. I guess I put night sights on my Glocks anyway....I'd hate to see a bunch of nice metal sights going to waste.

[Consummate]

The cheep plastic sights are one of the best things Glock did. The only thing I would like better is no sights at all. Why would I want to pay for iron sights that are only going to sit in a bin.

Touche'

[rtk]

I have had a stock front sight fall off a new G23 and the stock rear sight slide off a G17. I don't know why anyone would ever own a Glock!

I have also had a stock front sight slide out of a Sig 226!

[Stradawhovious]

It's not the sights I'm worried about on these.....

It's the crap UNDER them that concerns me.

[rukwikenuf]

It's not the sights I'm worried about on these.....

It's the crap UNDER them that concerns me.

amen brotha

[Seismic Sam]

So the sights on Tupperware are NOT dishwasher safe???

[Hammer99...]

So the sights on Tupperware are NOT dishwasher safe???

Glocks are dishwasher safe. Try it with a 1911...

[ranger2339]

Mine has not failed me, yet! It would be real bad to have the sights fall of during an engagement with some disgruntled locals and since or secondary is now our primary,because we cant carry our old primary anywhere, it would be extra bad..

Maybe I'll ask our armorer how many fail, since our issued ones see some abuse.

[Stradawhovious]

Glocks are dishwasher safe. Try it with a 1911...

Mine is Stainless. I'm sure it would fare just fine in the dishwasher.

But unless you have your dishwasher hooked up to a vat of ed's red or Hoppe's, You'd probably get better results with a brush, a jag, some solvent, some oil and some patches.

Just sayin'.