Over the last few years I have received requests from students for a flat black rear sight for the Ameriglo CAP front sight. While most that use the sights like the ability to have a rear sight reference for the front, others claim it is optically confusing and feel it should be removed. I usually recommended to blot out the rear line with a black marker. That said, rear sight serrations have long been a desirable feature PROVIDED THEY ARE DONE WELL! The idea of rear sight serrations is to reduce glare, but I have seen a few sights over the years in which the rear serrations have actually increased it! Merely running lines across the rear is not, in itself, the solution to glare reduction. The CAP Sight was designed with the help of an eye surgeon who was NOT a shooter. When going to an optical professional for expertise on how the eye sees what it does, I did not want shooters bias to be a factor, so I went to a person who would talk about eyes alone. After showing this man several popular sight combinations he looked at me with a bit of befuddlement and asked, If you are trying to line up straight edges with straight edges (equal height, equal light) then why do you put round dots on the sights? This led Ameriglos Rick Callihan and I to go with a square front insert on the CAP sight. There is some president for this...think about the red insert on your old Smith & Wesson Model 66 or Ruger Security Six...a red rectangle in a flat back rear window (some liked white outline rear sights) was standard. Does a round dot on a square front sight viewed through a square rear window help align the sights quicker? Hmmm... Some claim a round front dot aligned with a rounded rear window can be used quickly and I do not dispute this anymore than I would dispute ghost ring sights...I am talking about conventional fixed, square pistol sights, period. The original prototype CAP sight had a flat black rear, but testers of the sight requested some way to line up the front with the rear QUICKLY for a long precision shot, thus the rear line. To align the front sight with the rear, merely turn the front square into a rectangle by aligning it with the rear line. Most users have used the sight with great satisfaction! Where many became confused was in the CAP Sights alignment...the front sight was designed to cover what you wanted to hit out to 10 - 12 yards, NOT use the top edge...much like the red dot on an optical carbine sight. As you moved back with the CAP, the shooter needed to discover where to hold which many shooters did not like. Keep in mind, it was designed as a close quarter combat sight...Combative Application Pistol sight...CAP! Competition enthusiasts asked for a thinner front so the T-CAP was introduced... a .140 front versus a .120. Both work fine, its just a matter of what you want. The rear CAP sight also has a beveled front edge so when the sight is used to manipulate the slide with one hand, the muzzle in tilted away from the shooter, something learned through practice. There are two reasons for this..1. muzzle is canted safely away from the shooters leg, 2. the gun is not up against the body where contact could keep the garbage from falling out of the ejection port. I have seen students over the years try to run their stopped pistol down the side of their body snagging whatever, trying for a one hand malfunction clearance, create a worse problem as they ddi not leave space for the jammed cartridges to fall free. That said, we have heard the requests and have introduced a CAP rear with a flat black color and serrations. It is available now. The sight is so new there is not even a name for it yet, so I am calling it the CAP Serrated until Rick decides what its name will be. I shot the first production rears yesterday and I am QUITE happy with what I discovered. First, the sights works equally well with either the CAP or T-CAP front sight. Shooting at 3 x 5 cards, off-hand, from 3 yards to 25 yards I found the accuracy to be the same out to 12yards. At 15 I started to have a bit of problem with the T-CAP which continued out to 25. With the standard CAP I had little problem at all! (See the attached photo) I attribute this to my aging eyes and cataracts which cast a ghost image around my eyes. I hope to have this corrected in 2015. If you like more info around your front sight, the T-CAP will work quite well for you. On the indoor range with its weird light, I found the serrations helped capture the light is such a way that I could reference the rear easily. The CAP fronts are available in both safety chartreuse (Yellow-lime green) and orange. The green in photo-luminescent while the orange is not. I do not know if the sight s on the Ameriglo web site yet, but I have been assured they will be available for sale tomorrow morning. Thanks for checking in!
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:06:43 +0000
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