Having issues with Ameriglo front sight Shield 9mm

[Sweeper13]

Hello to all.

I have had a few issues:

Sight#1: Tritium moving and damaging the white outline

Sight#2: White outline dissapperaing after a couple of hundred rounds.

Sight#3:Tritium and green outline fell out. ( The other day)

This has been going on over the last year. They were nice enough to replace the first 2 defective sites. Lets see what happends on the 3rd.

Looking to see if other people have had issues with Ameriglo Tritium front sites and what could be causing this?

Thanks

 

[Sinkhole30]

Cant say I have ever used Ameriglo. I have always put my trust in Trijicon and have yet to experience a single issue, with several sets of sights. You might wanna suck it up and try another brand such as Trijicon or Meprolite.

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[Captain Skippy]

Did you bang them on or use a purpose built pusher?

 

[chuck8388]

Kind of surprised I have them on five Glocks never a issue!

 

[Sweeper13]

Pusher on first one, Gunsmith on the rest.

 

[Roger S&W]

Oh man, I hope not. I have a brand new set (I-dot) from Christmas (still in packaging) I was gonna put on my Shield 40 once I run Speer Gold Dots through successfully.
Too late to return them?
I've never heard of these issues before.
So many people here recommended them to me.

 

[desmondj]

Does it look like this???

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[Offshell]

Somewhat disappointing. I've got a set of i dot pros on order for another gun. I usually just get trijicon hd's, but I wanted to try a two dot setup.

 

[Sweeper13]

At least you have some green left. Mine was ALL gone.

Ameriglo is sending me a new front site. KUDOS to them.

 

[desmondj]

I need to contact them. That's an older picture. They look like a half moon right now, kind of interesting. I blame it on 357 Sig loads.

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[joz]

I had the orange insert come out and then chip on my Ameriglo SW-251.

I contacted Sharon at Ameriglo (email below). They informed me that they had a bad batch of glue/wax used to adhere the fluorescent insert to the metal sight. She had me mail in my bad front sight, sent me a new front sight along with a check to cover the shipping and re-install/gunsmith costs. My new sight is perfect with no issues. Glue/was problem has clearly been resolved.

I will buy Ameriglo again. They stand behind their product and handled the situation perfectly.





Sharon Harrington <[email protected]>

 

[gnystrom]

I have had mine for a year or more. I do remember that I too had part of the paint come off the front sight. I called Ameriglo and they promptly replaced the sight for me. It was attributed to bad paint or priming material. No problems since. I love the sights. They appear to be a good company that stands behind their products.