Front Sight Mod

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Originally Posted by PhilOhio

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The human eye is no different than a camera lense. It cannot keep a rear sight, front sight, and distant target all in focus at the same time. The Luger sight system, with a rear "V" and thin inverted front "V" is the worst of all worlds; at least, if you want to see and hit anything. For our collector guns, it's fine.

So almost all modern arms manufacturers use a fairly wide front sight blade on guns that are actually expected to hit something. It makes it so much easier to center the blade.

After about age 40, our eyes' ability to focus at short range begins to drop off dramatically. With the skinny Luger front sight, about the top 1/3 of it becomes virtually invisible. It did for me. All I could see was the fuzzy lower 2/3, and I guess it was the top of that fuzz which I was trying to align with the top of the rear sight blade.

Exactly the same problem I somtimes have, usually if the lighting is,nt good enough. The top of the front sight dissaper and I only see the lover rifled part of it.
For me, smoking the sights with a match and consetrating on focusing on the front sight usually fix the problem.