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TROY Industries Front and Rear Tritium Flip Up Iron Sights?

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#1 ·
Hey all, I was looking at some new Iron Sights and came across these TROY Tritium combat sights. I think it is a cool concept to have your Irons Glow at night on an AR. On my Colt I wont be able to get them b/c of the Matech and the Front Sight post not being mounted on the rail. But on my next build I will most likely use both front and rear, also I know this is not an AK thread but I will be getting Tritium Irons for my AK. Anyway I was wondering if anyone has been running these sights and if so what they think about them, What pros/cons if any? Here are some pics If some of you are not familiar, what do you think about them>

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SOOOO NICE!!!
 
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#17 ·
not the greatest pics...........


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That looks really cool, okay I am definitely getting tritium in the front. All I have to do is unscrew the post inside the flip up sight right? and then screw in one with tritium? is that how it works? I guess I can look it up. I can't really just replace my whole front sight its not rail mounted like most full length rail rifles.
 
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#18 ·
That looks really cool, okay I am definitely getting tritium in the front. All I have to do is unscrew the post inside the flip up sight right? and then screw in one with tritium? is that how it works? I guess I can look it up. I can't really just replace my whole front sight its not rail mounted like most full length rail rifles.
It's easiest if you use a sight tool to unscrew the old one and install the new post. They just cost a few bucks. yours should be the standard A2 size (4 "notches" instead of 5 on the A1 post).
 
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#24 ·
What happens when you have to go "one click" up or down for zeroing?
Most better tritium sights have the post with the tritium independent of the traditional post on an iron sight. So, the top spins freely from the bottom. Just rotate the whole thing up one click and then the top portion with the tritium will be perpendicular to line of sight and then just depress the detent enough so that the top portion of the sight clears it and rotate it back and the portion that actually does the elevation/depression stays put. You can see what I am talking about a little bit better on this sight that I have:
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Courtesy of Ameriglo.

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The other posters are right. The rear tritium sights are worthless; you just get a green haze and no defined dots when properly sighting an AR type rifle with these sights. However, on AKs because of the distance between the eye and rear sight they work great.