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Fiber optic color choice
My red fiber optic fell out of my P2000...Marc at Gemini is sending me some replacement tubes...red and green...I think I'm gonna try green this time but for you guys who use fiber optic sights, what preference do you guys have color wise?
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I prefer gold. It is bright enough to make it easy to find but not so bright as to make you use the FO to aim with instead of the top of the front sight.
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I find green to be brighter but red easier to pick up quickly...
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I just installed a .250" Hi-Viz GREEN fiber optic frt sight on my 627 five inch PC gun. A FAR better field sight than the huge gold bead it came with.
I have tried the red ones a few times, I like the green the best.
Then again I like rubenesque redheads too...You may like skinny blondes? So YMMV.
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I prefer green...red is one of the first colors to disappear in low light.
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I prefer gold. It is bright enough to make it easy to find but not so bright as to make you use the FO to aim with instead of the top of the front sight.
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They don't make a gold fiber optic.... 
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They don't make a gold fiber optic.... |
They make more colors than you know. Looks gold (to me) but called yellow
http://www.shootersconnectionstore.c...fill-P534.aspx
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I surrender to your goldish yellow fiber optic...but he is just sending me red and green so those are my choices.... 
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I'm holding out until they offer one in black.
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Of the two, red for me. Green is too bright.
Best color is orange though...
ETA:
http://www.fiberopticproducts.com/Flourescent.htm
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Red, Green, make no difference to me. Got RG colorblindness,
I like Yellow!
I failed the telephone wire box fixer test. How do they do that?!! 
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Green is like a magnet for my eyes! No question as to where the front sight is at all......your eyes may have a different preference.
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Green is like a magnet for my eyes! No question as to where the front sight is at all......your eyes may have a different preference.
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I will do a test before installing on the gun....gonna run around the neighborhood with one color in each hand aiming them...will report back after my findings...
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If the FO is too bright, you can blacken the top with a sharpie to limit the light absorption.
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With my eyes, I was thinking of dousing it in gasoline and lighting it before shooting.
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Christmas is coming.
Use red AND green.
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BTW...found a video on youtube from Dawson Precision on how to install a new fiber optic....super easy...gotta love the interweb!
Fiber Optic Replacement - YouTube
found another video where the guy heated one end of the tube off the gun...then slid it in, cut the front of, and heated that end...guess either way should work fine....
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Red for port side shooters and green for starbord side shooters.
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I prefer green.
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I think the optimal is supposed to be Red in back and Green in front... I might have it backwards...held a Browning 22 once that comes that way, and it was something else....perfect.
The eye picks it up GREAT.
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Did a lot of research. I'm going with a black fiber optic...
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Did a lot of research. I'm going with a black fiber optic...
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I run the standard black front with a Millet rear on my 625 and can't say that I really ever needed a FO.
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The black FO is great in bright sunshine. Keeps me from having to wear sunglasses.
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I'll have to ask my doctor about the color of his FO he uses.
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I have both red and green. Really see little difference.
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I don't have a FO sight or any front sight at all.
I just point in the general direction and hope for the best.
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Avacado and Harvest Green are making a comeback.
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Sip ,, for someone with 5761 posts I would think you would have
gotten this thing all worked out long ago.
Green for predominantly low light conditions
and Red for brighter situations.
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Sip ... Remember "Red light -- Green light"? Red = stop, Green = go. The fiber optic to use is dependent upon who you are aiming at.
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They came in the mail yesterday...tried each on on the gun...red glowed a bit brighter....maybe I was used to it...who knows..anyway, that's that!
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Doc's says he uses brown FO......figures.
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It depends on the background. You don't wanna use green sights in the woods for example...
The rest is your personal choice.
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I would choose the one which best complemented my new blue shoes.
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I shoot an XD pistol with green rear fibers and a red front.
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