Ok if some of you don't know Truglo has released their new Mil-Spec TFO's. The new sights called TFX are now available and yep I was the first one in the country to get them. I wanted to give you guys a better look at the sights from todays photoshoot. Before you say anything, this was a professional photoshoot and all precautions were taken.

Basically the new TFO eXtreme's
Now the fibers and tritium are hermetically sealed in vials. (no more melting fiber optics) you can clean these sights with what ever you want.

The front sights are shorter in length giving you just a little bit more sight radius.


The front sight has a sapphire face with a white ring around it making the glowing dots amore focused and defined look.

The rear sight is also sapphire faced with black rings around the rear. (not to compete with the front sight)

They fit all of the M&P pistols including the Shield.



My personal Shield now wears the TFX sights. Since I am the photographer I never get to be in the pictures that show off my toys.

I have the old TFOs on my M&P 45 and love them. Any idea on what these new TFX sights will cost?

Any idea why the rear sight profile is different between the XD/Glock vs the M&P? I like the Glock style better.

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$140 on one website that I have seen.

Well, looks like my 40c has an upgrade coming and my girl's 9c will get my current TFOs. win win...lol.

I'm wondering if the rods are going to fall out like they do on the previous TruGlos's

For $140.00 I would rather have a set of high quality sights like the Trijicon HD's.

This is an interesting comment. It seems that, even though you haven't seen these new sights, you think they are low quality. That's a strange stance to take. Do you have a set of the original TFOs? I do and I can tell you they are every bit as good quality as the Trijicon sights I also have. In fact, the TFO sights are easier to see than the Trijicon sights I have. Further, I have about 2,000 rounds through my M&P 45 with the TFO sights and had no problems with them.

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I guess that it's a preference on the sight, I have the TFO's sight on two of my glock and I just had install a set of Trijicon HD Night Sights for my Shield love them both. Now I have three other glock that I need to decide what to put on but I do like that new TFO's sight so I will see if the GS get some in.

$140 seems rather steep, but maybe that's just me.

I don't doubt the quality of them, but for that price, I would rather buy Trijicon HDs. Just personal preference. I own both TFOs and HDs.

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Sights look fantastic, but they're a bit on the spendy side. However, thanks for posting.

That's MSRP...........google it.....they're only around $103-106 on most sites.

S&W M&P, including Shield, $105.44, free shipping


TRUGLO TFX Pistol Sights - TG13MP1A | CenterfireGuns

$140.00 is a small price to pay for confidence in the sights on a defensive handgun. I own Novaks, Meprolights, and TruGlo TFO sights, among others - but The TFX being available for Novak sight cuts means they will be on my wife's main Para P14, and mine. She already has TFOs on her Sig 226 and S&W XD .40 subcompact, and we've never had any trouble with them, and they do glow 247 - which is hard to beat.

I recently bought a set of Trijicon HD's for my M&P but haven't got around to fitting them yet.

Could someone please comment on the aiming concept of the U-Shaped rear HD compared to the standard Tru-Glo setup?

Also the HD's are higher, that's why I bought them I like to put the dot on the front sight over the target.

Does the daytime brightness interfere at all?

I found the HDs to consistently shoot 2.5" high at seven yards due to an incorrect (IMHO) front sight height choice by Trijicon. Shooting the dot or top of front site blade made no difference to me, YMMV.

Do Trijicon HD Night Sights shoot a bit high vs. Stock Sights?

I can't comment on the U shape rear. I don't really look at the rear sight. I can say I like the 0.100" width of the 10 8 front sight.

I sold the HDs at a loss and now use a 10 8 FO front and factory blacked out rear.

To the TFX discussion: I have seen anecdotally on the web sporadic reports of the TFO FO vial falling out. It would seem the TFX redesign would address that issue.

If so, I would guess the TFX at $100 ish street price would be great value, if you wanted a tritium sight picture at night and a FO in daylight.

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this^^^ For every review that praises Truglo, there are equal amounts of disgruntled gun owners saying the same thing.

Llando thanks for sharing your experience. I bought the Trijicons because of the height so I could put the dot dead center as opposed to the factory Novaks which I need to shoot at the 6 o'clock position.
I'll just have to fit them and see what happens. I've also never had a good experience with FO sights. Tru Glo may have addressed the main complaint of them working loose but I don't think FO is necessary on the rear sight, makes them too busy IMHO. Thanks again.

No problem. I sincerely hope the HDs work for you. Several have commented they shoot them POI = POA, but in my case, the math and my results were uncannily similar.

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I have a set of TFO's on my M&P 40 and just don't like them, I read many comments about the fiber optic falling off and while hasn't happened to me I do think eventually will happen. In my non expert opinion FO sights don't belong on a SD handgun as the FO is fragile, I do believe there are better design out there and non FO night are the way to go for a serious SD handgun.

I just had HD's installed on my 9mm Shield and I am 3" high at 20' and 4-5" high at 30 feet with several different weights/brands of ammunition.

Purchased a pair of TFX from Buds.

Will give an evaluation in a week or so. (when ever my ammo comes and when the sights arrive.)

Pretty excited, finally caved in and purchased an Apex Sear.

So my Pistol will have the full Apex Treatment, TFX Sights, and 500 rounds to eat.

Have you heard of fiber optic rods falling out or have you heard of the rod falling out of the TFO specifically? I haven't. Also, the design is completely different than other fiber optic sights.

In the TFO the fiber optic rod is completely encapsulated. In other sights it is not. I think this offers better protection than most other fiber optic sights.

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I'm thinking my Shield needs a set of these...as soon as I can find some place that has a deal I'll be on it.

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What constitutes a "deal" in your book?

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Is $105.44 and free shipping a deal? If so then here you go.

TRUGLO TFX Pistol Sights - TG13MP1A | CenterfireGuns

Received sights today, installed with no issues. Though I used a
MGW sight pusher tool. I'll update with pics sometime tomorrow.

The new design seems pretty nice. The tritium and fiber optic is in 1 capsule this ensures they won't fall out.


Won't have a range report until next week though.

I just installed them on an XD and they are really nice. Quite bright in the daylight and soft in the dark. These seem to be a major improvement over the old TFO's I had and went "dead". Hope the front vial stays in this time, last model it fell out and had to glue it back in.

Looking forward to pics, and range report on pros/cons. BTW, what pistol did you put them on?

M&P9

Waiting for the rest of my stuff to come in before hitting the range. I have a TLR4 coming, and I'm waiting on some magazines for my Canik TP9SA. Also some Mec Gar +2 base plates I want to test out on both guns.

Just installed my Apex Sear in the M&P as well. It's looking pretty decked out with the TFX, Gunkote Titanium Slide, Stippled Back Strap, Apex Poly Trigger, Mag Extension and now the Streamlight on order (Might put the streamlight on the canik though).

I'm getting +3 on M&P9 Magazines, and +2 on the Caniks. So 20+1 in both pistols is wonderful.

Sorry for the delay on pics and range report.

I felt like I didn't shoot my M&P as great as I could have. Apparently I didn't have the front sight centered right. I fixed it now though.

I was also too busy playing with my new Turkish Delight.

Anyways Pics:




The white dot on the front makes target aquisition much faster in medium lighting. I'm digging it.

Totally going to sell my IDOT pro sights off.








FYI the Mec Gar +2's worked flawlessly in regards to feeding. Only issue I had was the slide not locking back 100% of the time on the last round fired. I'll be experimenting with +10% springs, it should fix the issue.

Shameless plug for my Canik...



I'm amazed that a $325 gun gave my apex M&P a run for it's money. The trigger is arguably slightly better than the Apex Duty kit.

Targets were shot at 30 feet or so.

TFX seemed worth the price tag. Front sight is hivis even in medium light conditions. Low light the tritium is bright. In direct sunlight it is very bright. Finish is supposed to be corrosion resistant which is a plus for carry. Sight radius is still cut shorter however, but for combat accuracy it won't hurt the shooter much.

Both guns shared a case of Wolf Poly Performance 115 grain FMJ steel cased ammo. No choking or hang ups.

M&P had the Poly Trigger, Stock trigger spring, Apex Duty Sear, and Ultimate Striker Block installed.

Go easy on me, I haven't shot in about 6 months.

I found this review on XD Forum




I like them better than my IDOT Pros. They should be shield compatible.

A review TRUGLO TFX Sights XDm 40cal 3.8 compact | XDTalk Forums

Newbie to this forum. I had some TFO sights on my Glock 17 and absolutely loved them. It took a bit of getting used to in the sunlight because they were so bright. In intermediate light they were at least as good as my Meprolites on one of my other handguns and at night I found them to be great. However, I had problems with the fiber rod and had to replace them (Meprolites).

Now my Glock 19 needs new sights (I bought it 2nd hand with Trijicons on it about 6 years ago. I don't know how old they were to begin with) and I've ordered the new TFX sights. From what I've read these new sights have been designed to address the issues that people had with the TFOs a) fiber optic too fragile, and b) nothing special in medium low light conditions.

I wish they made them for my model 29

Ive had 2 TFO front fly off on me while I was shooting I personally dont feel confident spending that much for these sights.

I dislike Glock factory sights a lot so when I bought two Glock 19s a couple of years ago I replaced the factory sights with TFOs. Although I have had night sights on various handguns for years, these TFOs are my favorites by far. I like them best because they give a good day sight, which some night sights don't, as well as a night sight equal to any I have personally owned.

Night sights are emergency use and have to be bright but, along with most people, most of my shooting is done during the day. The TFOs are also excellent during the day when I do my shooting.

Only a couple of thousand rounds through mine so far but no problems. I did use a sight pusher to install them rather than beating them in from the side with a punch and hammer.

Besides me, I only know of a few people who have TFOs but they haven't experienced any problems so far. My TFOs were $72 delivered when I bought them through Amazon.

2 questions:

How did you install them?

Any problems with holster fit?

They have them at Bud's Gun shop, $104, 1 1/2 hr drive from here.
Somebody stop me...

Good price! Have you replaced sights yourself before?
If not... When you buy from ajames (and send him your slide), installation is included.

I just bought TFOs like a week before I heard about these coming out (picked up a M&P Shield 40 back in January). I love the TFOs, and haven't babied them at all despite horror stories of tubes popping out and such, but we'll see how they stand up to time. I've run a couple hundred rounds so far through the gun with the TFOs and no problem. Also, I've got oil on them a few times but never on the rods themselves - been careful about cleaning but not to my normal obsessive levels which is surprising as I'm sure many of you can relate when it comes to gun care. My feeling is if I need to baby them I'd rather them break and need to replace them, then have it happen over a longer period of time. Might be a strange attitude but other than taking precautions with chemicals I feel like they should be able to take a reasonable beating.

Anyway, my question is - other than the white ring (which is definitely awesome, and had me almost going with a non Tritium/FO combination night sight) are the fiber optics and/or tritium better in the TFXs in terms of brightness/visibility? Or are the TFXs just an upgrade of the fit/finish of the housing in that regard?

Just installed the TFX's on a Glock 17 Gen4 on Thursday. This a 10 shot group fired at 10 yards with Fiocchi 115 gr. I know I needed to move my rear sight which I did and it's right on the money now. Was totally pumped that I can easily see the front sight much better with these vs. just about all other sights. I own about 8 pairs of TFO's and I have never had a single problem with any of them. I also own Trijicons, BigDots and Ameriglo's. The TFX's will be on all my guns from now on. I will say these are not target sights but more like. Big Dot combat type sights. The front appears bigger and the rear is no longer taking over. I have a scar I'm looking thru in my dominant eye so these sights had me really excited to be able to see again!

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I just put a set of the TFXs on my Glock 19 Gen 4 this week. I bought them from Centerfire guns based on mustangmans post. The price was good, best I could find online. Shipping was really slow however, it took 11 days from Texas to Florida using some new hybrid UPS/USPS method. It was free though.

I had an issue with the front sight. The boss is a little smaller than the slot in the slide, so there's more play than I'd like, and the screw was too long so I couldn't tighten it down good. TruGlo is sending me a shorter screw. Customer service was quick to respond.

My impression so far is that they are good at night, as good as any tritium sights I've owned, and outside in daylight they are really bright when the light is overhead. I did notice that in normal indoor evening lighting, they are harder to pickup than the stock white sights. Since the fibers are shielded on all sides but the top, lighting needs to be overhead. So, in between daylight and enough darkness to see the tritium glow, there's a range where they are not so bright from either source. The white outline on the front helps, and they're as easy to see in indoor lighting as most straight tritium sights I've used.

I'll post an update after 500 rounds or so, once my shorter screw arrives.

I have installed them in 10 of my handguns so far. I had TFO's and they were ok but I prefer the TFX's because the front dot is bigger and doesn't let the rear take over. Helps me stay focused on front sight.