Fiber optic front sight, red or green?

That pic posted by pgdion shows, IMO, how green just pops so much more than the red. My CZ is with a gunsmith now having some trigger work done as well as a green FO front sight (HiViz) installed. Looking forward to see how it turn out.
 
shows, IMO, how green just pops so much more than the red
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Most of that is because the green dots are 2 feet closer to the camera than the red dot is. They really aren't brighter, the camera just picks them up that way. That's why the red dot looks smaller too, they are actually the same size. The red actually stands out pretty nice on the target. I like it sandwiched between the green.

I think if you have just the front optic, then green would be a good choice, but if you have full fiber optics, I like red on the front and green at the back myself.
 
my thoughts are for hunting, I prefer a color I don't encounter in nature as much... lime green leaves are more common than glowing red, & thus the red offers me a less confusing sight picture...

personally I think the yellow / orange rods that came with the set I bought, are even brighter than the green, if brightness was a main concern...

BTW... STEVIE... I have the same SDM sight on the front of my S&W 610 ( so far the only one I didn't have to make a sight, to get one tall enough to work with my Williams fiber optic ghost rings, that I mounted on the rear of all these )
 
TylerD45ACP said:
Red. I remember my driving instructor telling me this because I found it extremely interesting. He said, "Stop lights are red because it is the color of the spectrum the human eye can see the furthest and best." Second I believe is green for the go lights. I never forgot that he said that.
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You'd best forget it because he was dead wrong. :) Physically, the human eye is significantly more sensitive to the green range of wavelengths, which includes extremely low-light conditions when we can see only in black & white with our rods, which are most sensitive in a similar range (and not very sensitive to red light at all). The probable reason for this is that it closely matches where the Sun's maximum output lies on the electromagnetic spectrum (if the Sun were always a red dwarf, for example, then our eyes probably would be more sensitive to red, but it isn't).

That said, perhaps for some people the best color to use on the front sight is the one that psychologically captures their attention best, as well as contrasts the best against the expected background. Obviously, this is an individual matter.
 
The reason fire departments across the country have switched there trucks from red to that lime green is to many were getting hit in low light conditions, Even with all the flashing red lights on them. Also notice the flashing lights on emergency vehicles are changing from red to usually blue.

Any Blue fiber optics out there? I don't know but I do know scopes are starting to come out in that color.

I CCW a CZ-75B and wonder if fiber optic would cause drawing from the holster issues or if I should go with trijicon style sights.
 
On the guns where I can change the front sights I prefer green. I just replaced the red bead on my shotgun this weekend with a green one.
 
Stevie, you should already know where to go for CZ sights. You can get red and green fiber optic rods there too. You could try replacing your red fiber optic rod with a green fiber optic rod. They have two different width fiber optic rods there, 1mm and 1.5mm.

My custom shadow has a 1mm wide red fiber optic front sight, and my custom SA with shadow upper has a 1.5mm front sight (I still have not had a chance to shoot the SA yet). Just by sighting them, I prefer the 1.5mm front sight. I read somewhere that you can convert the CZ 1.0 mm front sight to 1.5mm by carefully drilling it. I might try converting my shadow's front sight to 1.5 that way...
 
My preference is green. I also use a green FO sight on my hunting bow. It's unreal how that sight lights up in low light conditions.
 
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How about C, none of the above?...

I'm not a huge fan of the new style fiber optic handgun sights. To me, the units look like they could fail or break with ease. :(
These fiber optic systems may work for some and they could be useful for hunting, target or range use but I wouldn't put them on carry or duty handguns. I do like night sights & bright 3 dot designs but they need to hold to rough use or the real world conditions(bad weather, dust, hard floors, paved roads, etc).
As of yet, I have not seem any fiber optic models that looked able to hold up w/o breaking or cracking apart.
 
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