Sights

An iron sight is the mechanical reference a shooter aligns by eye to put a bullet on target: a rear notch and a front post (or bead), read together as one sight picture. Every pistol ships with a factory pair sitting in the slide's dovetail - the machined slot that lets a sight be drifted out and a new one driven in without gunsmithing. Whether your gun is a classic no-optic pistol or an optics-ready model running a red dot, the sights below cover both roles: primary aiming system, or co-witness backup underneath the dot.

We stock sights for over a dozen brands and well over a hundred individual models, sourced from specialist makers including LPA (Italy), Zendl (Czech Republic), Angry Bear and Night Fision (USA), and factory-original parts from CZ and other manufacturers. Fit is model-specific down to the dovetail width and sight height, so the fastest way to the right part is through your brand and model below rather than this page alone.

Front, rear, or a matched set

A sight upgrade can mean one piece or two. A front sight is the post you focus on; a rear sight is the notched blade you look through; a sight set replaces both together so the regulation between them - meaning the two are matched to shoot to the same point of impact - is guaranteed by the maker rather than by mixing parts from different sources. Some pistols also take a front sight filler, a low, sightless blank that replaces the front post when a slide is converted to run a red dot as the sole aiming reference.

Fixed or adjustable

Fixed sights are drift-adjustable for windage only, by tapping the whole sight sideways in the dovetail; a fully adjustable rear sight adds a windage screw and an elevation screw, usually turned with a small flat driver, so point of impact can be tuned for a specific load or distance without changing parts. Adjustable rear sights are the standard choice for practical and precision competition, where zero gets fine-tuned match to match.

Height: standard, low, or co-witness

Sight height decides what happens when a red dot is mounted above the slide. A co-witness set is deliberately tall so the top of the front post lines up inside the optic's window, behind the dot - that height is a feature for red dot users, not an oversight, and it lets you find the dot instantly by looking through the same sight picture you already know. A low or standard-height set sits below the optic's window and is the right call when the sights are the only aiming system, since a tall front post would otherwise block part of the sight picture.

Illumination for target acquisition and low light

How a sight helps your eye find it varies by material and use case:

• Fiber optic - a thin rod that gathers ambient light along its length and glows at the tip; bright and fast in daylight, the choice most competition shooters run on the front sight for a crisp, high-contrast dot.
• Tritium - a sealed glass vial of tritium gas that self-illuminates for years with no battery or charging, the standard for concealed carry and duty use where the first shot may come in the dark.
• Luminescent (glow) dots - a coating that charges under light and fades over minutes, a lower-cost middle ground between tritium and plain dots.
• White dots, white lines, or a plain blacked-out and serrated rear - the classic three-dot or bar-dot picture for fast alignment in daylight, or a glare-free black rear preferred by bullseye and precision shooters who want nothing but the front post drawing the eye.

Choosing sights for sport shooting

For competition, the decisive factors are usually a fully adjustable rear sight for dialling zero, and a high-contrast front - fiber optic for most disciplines, plain black for precision stages where glare matters more than speed. For duty and carry, tritium buys a working sight picture after dark without relying on a light. For any optics-ready build, co-witness height keeps the irons as a functioning backup the moment the dot goes down.

Some of the deepest sight ranges we carry sit behind CZ's competition lineup - the Shadow 2 and TS 2, both built for IPSC and USPSA - and behind Glock's Standard-frame family, led by the Glock 17 and Glock 19 and including the long-slide Glock 34 built specifically for Production division. Their catalogues below are a good starting point if you are shopping by use case rather than by brand.

Sights by brand

Pick your pistol's manufacturer to see every compatible sight we stock, sorted by model:

• Sights for CZ models
• Sights for Glock models
• Sights for Walther models
• Sights for Sig Sauer models
• Sights for HK models
• Sights for Beretta models
• Sights for Springfield models
• Sights for 1911 models
• Sights for HS Produkt models
• Sights for Canik models
• Sights for Tanfoglio models

Already running an optic, or planning to?

If your pistol is not optics-ready and you want to run a red dot instead of, or above, your irons, a red dot mount replaces the rear sight in the dovetail with no slide milling required. If your slide already has a factory optics cut, an optics ready plate adapts that cut to your chosen red dot's footprint - the mounting pattern under the optic. Either route, a co-witness sight set from this page keeps your irons working underneath.

Not sure which sight cut your pistol uses? Contact us with your exact model and we will point you to the right collection.