Kudos to HiViz sights. Great CS!

GunNut

Let me start by saying that I'm a HUGE fan of HiViz FO front sights.  Zee started me in this direction and in the last year or so just about any gun I own that has a replaceable front sight now sports a HiViz FO sight. All my new Glock training 44s have them on and everyone that shoots these guns falls in love with them, You CAN'T miss them in your peripheral vision and for $30 or so there is no better sight out there that I've found.  Not one has failed, they are built like a little brick outhouse, solid metal and the FO is encased in solid resin.




So needless to say I've installed quite a few of them on my own and in student guns.  Well, as anything that works well at some point or another there is a fail, actually two on this instance.

The screw that holds the sight onto the Glock slide is small and REALLY finely threaded.  You only have to add a little LocTite and screw in gently until you meet resistance and you're good to go.  The last one I did as soon as I met resistance it snapped, probably a just a weak screw (or I had a hulk strength moment), it was bound to happen when you make thousands of them.  Needless to say the broken piece is in the hole rendering a brand new sight unusable.

So I contacted Hi-Viz and with ZERO issues they sent me a replacement sight back.  THEN, I went to install the new sight and I'm doing it in my very cluttered garage.  Screw slips out of my hands and falls off the bench, and vanishes into thin air.  I spent about 20 minutes looking for it to no avail thinking, great I now have TWO sights I can't use.  I the contacted CS again asking if I could purchase a replacement screw from them or any other site?  They just emailed me back, one is on the way, no charge.

Now THAT is a good company!!!

Diver43

I like their product. Good to know they stand behind it

Zee

I have used Ra-**** Strength on one yet. But, good to know if I Roid out, I can get it fixed. 😁

Justsomedude

I love most FO sights but can't understand why people pay the extra money for tritium sights. All of the ones I've installed have yet to impress me with their "glow". And just for dramatic effect that was a double air quote. 

Zee

Justsomedude said:

I love most FO sights but can't understand why people pay the extra money for tritium sights. All of the ones I've installed have yet to impress me with their "glow". And just for dramatic effect that was a double air quote. 

I’m in agreement. I used to be a big tritium fan. Not so much anymore. Cost prohibitive and FO are considerably brighter in daylight. What with WML these days, tritium is less needed. 

If necessary, I do like the AmeriGlo options. 

GunNut

I installed my last sets of TFOs on two of my personal Glocks and they do give me a nice glow bedside laying right by me on my nightstand, my wife calls them my personal night lights.  So there is that, but I agree with you guys, I'm not spending any more money of Tritium for all my guns.  The rotation was getting expensive!

GunNut

So quick follow up.  Today I got an envelope with THREE replacement screws just in case I do something stupid again 

These are good folks and they now have a fan for life.

shotgunshooter3

I'm a big Dawson fan myself, but I'll throw Hi-Viz on the list next time I need to rig up some sights. 

GunNut

shotgunshooter3 said:

I'm a big Dawson fan myself, but I'll throw Hi-Viz on the list next time I need to rig up some sights. 

These suckers are really bomb proof.  And so far just about everyone I let shoot my guns ends up buying a front sight.  I’ve installed a bunch of them for friends and folks I train as a favor to folks I like 😁