Best Handgun Sights by Type – We Range Test Express, Post & Notch, and Red Dots

By Tom McHale

Tom breaks down three basic styles of handgun sights: express, post and notch, and red dot to find out which one is the best handgun sight?

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- One of the easiest things to personalize on a handgun is the sight system. There are a zillion sighting options on the market, each promising to be the ideal solution, so how do you decide? You’ll find post and notch solutions, fiber optics, u-notch, straight eight, and red dots, just to name a few. Heck, there are even solutions that have you stacking triangles, hexagrams, or some such shapes on top of each other.

Testing to Fund Best Handgun Sights

Choosing the best solution for your particular needs isn’t at all helped by the gun counter aphorisms passed along like holiday fruitcakes.

“How many world champions do you know that use express sights?”

“Most self-defense encounters happen in the dark.”

“You’ll still be looking for that electronic red dot long after your killed and buried.”

What these pithy sayings generally ignore is the intended use of the …Read the Rest

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