No, it isn’t that holographic baseball card or the animated picture thing from the claw machine (though it works just like that), it’s Green Light Sights‘ pistol slide plate replacement sight that promises to be the fastest aligning pistol sight ever.
If you’re generally in-line with the flat face of the Green Light Sight, it’s green.
If you’re off to the sides or high or low, it’s white.
In this way, the sight is only showing green to the shooter when the pistol is aligned correctly enough to make thoracic hits on a man-sized target out to approximately 20 feet. In typical defensive shooting scenarios speed is at a premium, and making hits on center mass as quickly as possible is usually preferable to making extremely precise hits but taking three times as long to do it.
I took these photos in SHOT Show’s New Products Center, but also stumbled upon Green Light Sights’ booth and tried the sights in-person on a couple of GLOCK dummy guns. I’ll go as far as saying that it’s an interesting concept, and given that it can be used in conjunction with iron sights and red dots and doesn’t require replacing either of those things, I’ll probably pick one up and run some draw-and-fire and target transition drills on the range to see what I’m faster with.
What do y’all think?
More gimmicky nonsense that will give inexperienced shooters the promise of accuracy without training.
Some gimmicks can make for great training but I see this as a less capable pistol optic. Could work great when you train and get used to it but could be a problem if it is relied on solely.
good innovation. it’s a back up sight. can’t think of any downside.
Thanks for mentioning my optic. To be clear, it only corrects for up and down, not left and right. I could have done both, but that would require thinking during a gunfight and thinking takes time. I wanted speed. It’s the up and down that is less intuitive, especially since if the gun is too low, the hand obscures it and it’s easy to overcorrect in the 3 seconds the average gunfight lasts. Right and left is more like just pointing and easier to do. I get the ‘gimmicky’ response from people that read about it, but never from someone that actually tries it. When they see how much faster their sight acquisition is, it’s usually a moment of shock, then a smile. Take it out Force on Force and you can often get two shots off before your opponent even finds their sights. Len Baxley, 2x national and 1x world IDPA champion thought it was a gimmick until he let his students try. Everyone was faster and more accurate, with these sights… including Len. Here’s what he had to say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kPWcBQMtzk&t=2s
For ease of consideration only for normal width Glocks or are there versions for other firearms (admittedly Glock is a great initial focus) and price range? Will look at it more later on but makes things easier for others in the comments.
“No, it isn’t that holographic baseball card or the animated picture thing from the claw machine …”
Yes, it is. Instead of a pic the background is green.
if they start impregnating these with requested images they’ll sell millions. lil’ zombie head, exploding zombie head.
I think that’s a great idea, and it challenges people’s fundamental idea of necessary accuracy.
Being able to shoot the wings off a fruit fly is quite an accomplishment, but I’ve seen people stress way too much about stacking shots when all they really need to do is make hits.
Hits count!