I am wanting to replace my stock sights with either the Truglo TFX (white front ring square rear notch) or the Trijicon HD in yellow.

Can anyone speak to these sights, especially if you have/had both, pro's/con's etc?

Thanks!

The TFX Pros are closer to the Trijicon HDs. Both are easy to see defensive sights. I have both and the Trijicons seem to be more robust.

I have the Truglo night sights on my home defense M&P 45 and they are very bright compared to Trijicon night sights, however that normally translates into a shorter life span. I have installed a bunch of the TFX sights for friends and customers and they have been very pleased with them. I have started installing Trijicon HD sights on all of my defensive handguns for 2 reasons. I am 60+ years old with the attendant degrading eyesight. The Trijicon HD (orange for me) sights have a larger front sight "dot" and a larger rear sight "notch" that allows wider light bars on either side of the front sight, which allows me to pickup my sight picture much faster. The larger sight window also allows for a marginally larger field of view for threat awareness. Secondly Trijicon offers a relatively unknown program to have your night sights "re-lamped" at a nominal charge. Trijicon's customer service has been extraordinary.

Thanks!! 52 here and while I am near sighted and can see my sights really good I can start to feel the eyesight losing the sharpness it once had at handgun sight distance.

The stock sights on my 4.25inch work but with all 3 dots being the same size and brightness I see the front sight as slightly dimmer and the rears brighter if that makes sense. Almost distracting. The front sight is farther away so that is probably the reason. I blacked my rear dots out and it made a difference but I have used I-Dot pro's on Glocks before and that front sight really stood out. I found with the i-dot I preferred the yellow over the orange for stand-out brightness.

On my 2.0 Shield it came with the S&W night sights. They seem brighter over the non-night sights and with the front sight closer to the rear the front does not seem as dim as my 4.25inch. Also with the vials in the middle of the dots that helps me pick them up better, not because of them glowing but the contrast of the white/black dot during the day.

Anyhow I will go with the Trijicon HD in yellow and if they work fine I will probably do the same for my Shield to keep it all consistent.

We use trijicon HD at work. Those sights are good to go! They’re very easy to pick up and are very accurate. I’ve done a ton of one hand manipulations using the rear sights against my holster, belt, mag pouches, etc to rack the slide and they are still just as solid in the sight channel as the day they were installed. My duty weapon is currently a Gen 4 Glock 21.

I have never been a 45 guy but a friend of mine has a Gen 4 Glock 21 and man is that gun super smooth to shoot. I actually buy 45 ammo when he comes to the range with me so I can shoot that thing. Going from the 9mm to a 45 I expected it to be harsher but it is actually softer shooting than my well worn Gen 4 G17.

All my pistols have Trijicon HD’s, except one. With the Glock 17, I decided to try Tru Glo Pro. Not for me, but everyone is different.

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I have the Trijicon HD, "Lime" front on my G43. I really like the sights but the rear sight is sharp as hell.

I've had TFX Pro's and Trijicon HD's. My eyes are getting old, pretty much like the rest of me. For me, both work really well when it's very dark or very bright, but the orange HD's are easier for me to pick up in dim light. Not dark enough for the tritium to pick up or need a flashlight, but not bright enough to make the fiber on the TFX pop.

Like @SIGfever mentioned, the top edge of the rear sight on the HD's are sharp. I did a very light touch up with an old points file (remember when cars had points) to take the sharpness off the edge.

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I’m cheap so off duty I use Truglo Tritium Pro Night Sights. They’re not as good as Trijicon HDs, but I like them better than Truglo TFO and TFX sights. For $65-ish they’re a steal.

I prefer the Ameriglow i-dot sights on my shield. I have the Ameriglow cap sights on my full size. I once had the TFX sights on my shield and didn't care for them. I never used the Trijicon.

I use Trijicon and wouldn't want anything else. My duty gun has the HD's with orange front sight, love it.

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Trijicon with orange outline front. Best night sight I have ever used. The orange combined with u shape rear sight notch work very well for my 74 year old eyes.

Not to hijack, sight pusher or punch?

The TFX look so appealing and have been looking at them.. not sure how I would adjust to a rear "U" of the Trijicon HDs, but I've seen so many positive reviews

Trijicon HD XR's ar excellent sights. I have the orange, but the yellow ones are supposed to glow longer in the dark if coming from a lighted area. The XR's are very quick acquisition, and will be on all my pistols eventually. I notice a huge difference when shooting my pistol with the Triji XR's next to my pistols without them. The sharpness of the rear sights haven't bothered me at all, and I carry IWB at the 3 oclock position.

I have TruGlo TFO's green/green and a CT green laser.

i have 2 of the TFX on Ruger LC9's. the only downside is the front sight is a little long and this decreases the sight radius. nit pickin' probably, but something to be aware.

I really like the TFX PROs
I just picked up another M&P so time to shell out some TFX $$$

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Boogs,
I have always used sight pusher to install night sights, not wanting to overly shock the tritium tubes. I realize that plenty of others use a drift with complete success. To each their own device. The only sights I will no longer install are the Tru-glo front sight for Sig Sauer classic pistols. The dovetailed "foot" of the
front sight is too small in my experience and I have seen several work loose.

mckenney, which sightpusher have you found to be effective? I have held off on TFX, not wanting to damage them during install with a punch

Boogs,
I was working in a gun shop, so I bought several of the MGW dedicated sight pushers for my personal guns and the most popular models people wanted sights installed on. While those sight pushers worked ok, they lacked vertical adjustment of the slide in relation to the pusher. I finally broke down and bought the MGW Sight Pro with numerous shoes to fit a wide variety of pistols. This tool is expensive and a professional grade tool. Not really designed to be bought if only doing one or two guns but it does allow for a great deal of custom adjustment of the slide in the tool. Slow setup & adjustment of the tool and slow cautious fitting of the sights is key. It ain't easy to put metal back once you've removed it.

I installed the Truglo TFX Pro on my 9 Shield a little over a year ago and was disappointed by the lack of illumination they provide in dim light. At both indoor and outdoor ranges the factory whites on my 22C provide more pop than the Truglo. Perhaps I was expecting too much.

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Haven't had both. All of my handguns came with Trijicon. Those that didn't got Trijicons installed. It's all I've used. Trijicon HD are on my Shield. I know there are many good sights out there I just tend to stick with what I'm familiar with.


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For my Shield 9, I originally had the U notch Orange Trijicon HD XRs, and later switched them to the Yellow Ameriglo U notch Pro I-Dot. I prefer the yellow I-dots a lot more. I see the yellow on the Ameriglo much better than I did the Orange Trijicon, but maybe it's because the Trijicons were the XR which is a thinner front sight post which means the dot was smaller. I didn't like that. I also didn't like that the Trijicon HD has 2 tritium lamps in the rear sight, because my eyes would still see those 2 lamps as a 3 dot sight system and I hate 3 dot sights. Which is another reason why I prefer the Ameriglo because they use a single tritium vile in the rear. I also think the Yellow on my Ameriglo is easier and quicker to see and pick up than the Orange. So I'll be selling those Trijicon HD XRs soon...maybe if I tried the yellow Trijicon HD regular (not XR) first, maybe I would have liked it. But ever since I've switched over to the yellow Ameriglo I-dot Pros I don't see myself using anything else. I love em.

My Kahr PM40 came with Trijicon sights from the factory and my Performance Center Shield came with night sights but I don't know who made them. Both of those work just fine, so I wouldn't change them. I added the TFX Pro sights to my XDm-40 compact and they are fantastic.


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So how is everyone liking their sights? I hear low/dim light is a problem for some? I was debating OEM tritium sights on a shield versus TFX Pro versus Trijicon HD etc.

That period when it's no longer light but not quite dark will be when any sight is not at it's best.
It needs to be pretty dark for Tritium, and there still needs to be some decent light for the fiber optics to "glow".
One thing about TFOs is that they will stand out and be easier to see on overcast days, in general all daylight conditions, when Tritium only sights are at their best in the dark.

All of these, whether TFOs or tritium only have the front sight much brighter than the rear dots, so you can concentrate on the front.
As someone else said, the TFOs are nearly half the price of the Trijicon sets, so I can afford to have them on every one of my handguns.

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Its hard to beat TFO/TFX sights. The difference is the TFX is engineered to be a bit stronger than the older TFO sights. I've used 'em for years now and they work great.....my favorite combat sights as they pop bright whether day or night. And not to mention I just ordered a set of TFX Pros for my M&P9C, $106 shipped.

I know they pop day or night but my question is really about low/dim light.

Where did you order for $106 shipped?

Thanks!