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What are the best pistol sights for old eyes? The Personal Defense Network‘s Rob Pincus stresses that you need to have good sights you can use reliably in a defensive situation. That means those sights need to be able to help you put the bullet where you need it to go very efficiently in the context of defensive firearms use.

AGING EYES

As you age, you may experience near-sightedness, far-sightedness, cataracts, poor night vision, or any other number of problems as your eyesight degrades. Rob feels that as his vision has changed as he’s gotten older, it’s been more important than ever to stick to the fundamentals that make a good defensive pistol sight: to have a large front sight post inside a very large rear sight notch.

Rob designed the claw sights with Ameriglo to be exactly that: a big bright front square (not a circle) that sits inside a relatively wide rear notch. That allows you to pick up the front sight cleanly and easily when using self-defense weapons, even if your up-close vision has degraded.

TRADITIONAL SIGHTS

The traditional handgun sights, which were common for decades even on defensive pistols, have a very narrow front sight post and a narrow rear notch. Because this setup gives less tolerance for error and higher potential for precision, it is good for competition and bullseye shooting and law enforcement qualification courses.

But with defensive shooting and its related handgun training, we simply do not need that level of precision. Nine to 15 feet is the range of the majority of defensive shooting situations, and we are aiming at the chest or sometimes the head, so the large square front sight and wide rear notch are the best setup of pistol sights for old eyes, and in fact for any eyes.

OTHER SIGHT OPTIONS

Rob offers his opinions on the large circular front sight sitting in a wedge, and red-dot sights, and explains why these are not his preferred choice for defensive pistols. To sum up, Rob believes the best pistol sights for old eyes for defensive use are the bright front square and wide rear notch, such as the Ameriglo claw sight or other similar sights.

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At the center of the Self-Defense Spring $7K Guns & Gear Giveaway are two of the most desirable (and hard-to-find) defensive guns on the market: the Daniel Defense DDM PDW chambered in .300 Blackout, and the Magnum Research Baby Eagle III. It doesn’t stop there, though; we’re also offering 1,000 rounds of GunPrime PMC 124 gr FMJ 9mm Luger Ammo. Then there is the gorgeous WeKnife Minax folder, the Viridian HS1 Hand Stop laser (hmm, that would fit nicely on the Daniel Defense PDW, wouldn’t it), AR 500 body armor, hearing protection from AXIL, a $500 gift card to the nation’s top gunleather experts at CrossBreed, Action Target spinning steel targets, a $250 gift card from our very own XDMAN and a Gold membership to the Personal Defense Network.

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