Author Topic: What Color front site in Fiber Optic Red, Green, Yellow (Read 1606 times)

Tommyt · « **on:** November 20, 2009, 07:42:09 AM »

This is a Follow up to the other question on type of sites

Now I'd like to know what color have you guys found to be the best
Red, Green, Yellow

Thanks
Tommyt

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,187513.0.html

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2009, 10:25:54 AM »

RED.
No real reason.
Other than there are yellow's and greens on the farm.

canon6 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2009, 10:29:59 AM »

I can see and pick up the green easier. Doug

Graybeard · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2009, 10:41:25 AM »

Green shows up best for me. Yellow is almost invisible and red kinda washes out as well. Red ramp front sights on handguns are next to useless to me. Orange would be much better than red but green to me shows best of all.

Ken ONeill · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2009, 03:02:53 PM »

Green. Or Green...or Green!

Terbltim · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2009, 03:04:01 PM »

I use a Red [almost like hot-pink] fiber-optic sight on the RSR-454 and a Green one on the BFR-475.
I can't say I prefer one over the other. I like them both a lot.
Toss a coin.

S.B. · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2009, 03:23:35 PM »

The green show up best for me?
Steve

Glanceblamm · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2009, 03:34:54 PM »

I only have one fiber optic and that is on a Crossman 760...Green is great.

Bearcat 74 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2009, 11:45:21 PM »

Green for me.

irold · « **Reply #9 on:** November 21, 2009, 02:55:50 AM »

Experience only with green and orange (?).........green is much easier to pick up for me. Try a F/O front with a "one ragged hole " rear , works real well. regards

ccoker · « **Reply #10 on:** November 21, 2009, 03:30:20 AM »

in low light I have found green on my bow to show up best and on my trijcon accupoint scopes green as well over red or amber

ducati · « **Reply #11 on:** November 21, 2009, 03:59:38 AM »

I shoot several handguns competitions, and found an article a year or two ago about this topic. The article stated the human eye will pick up the green quicker or easier. I had used red fiber optics and changed to green and found that I found the front sight quicker. I only use fiber optics on the front sight, plain black rear.

turkeyeye · « **Reply #12 on:** November 21, 2009, 06:52:25 AM »

Well my experience with my bow sights using fiber optics is that Green is the best. The Red really produces a glare or "Halo" effect in low light. Yellow isn't as bright as other colors.

Graybeard · « **Reply #13 on:** November 21, 2009, 01:23:53 PM »

If green weren't easier for most to see they wouldn't be able to charge more than twice as much for green lasers as they do for red lasers.

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #14 on:** November 22, 2009, 01:08:47 AM »

green as it will blend into the ground when it falls off when it gets bumped against something which it eventually will. Hopefully not just before a trophy shows up.

Glanceblamm · « **Reply #15 on:** November 23, 2009, 04:39:09 AM »

Quote from: Graybeard on November 21, 2009, 01:23:53 PM

If green weren't easier for most to see they wouldn't be able to charge more than twice as much for green lasers as they do for red lasers.

A good point to cover since we are starting to switch between a fiber optic verse a Led such as an electronic dot. That fiber optic on the crossman I mentioned has to be a good 50moa. While it is great on bird size game within air rifle ranges, it hardly makes for a precise sight that you might want to use to take a 100yd shot at a deer with as it simply covers up too much of the target at a distance.

The (Green option) on my Bushnell Trophy red dot is very precise at the longer ranges because I can turn it down to 3moa. It is practically worthless in the daylight but excellent for dawn\dusk conditions.

With These Considerations In Mind...I would go with the Red and put up with the halo now & again depending on how well it will shoot at the range under these conditions.

gypsyman · « **Reply #16 on:** November 24, 2009, 04:47:47 PM »

Everybody's eye's are different. If you can, try all 3 and see what works best for you. You might see one best in low light, and another in bright light. How's that for confusing things. gypsyman

bambambam · « **Reply #17 on:** December 05, 2009, 05:35:37 AM »

I have tried all of them and green works best for me.

rawhidekid · « **Reply #18 on:** December 05, 2009, 10:32:07 AM »

Where I used to work, we did colored inserts on front sights. The best seller was the green hands down. If I am not mistaken, most fiber optic front sights the inserts can be changed at will. Buy one of each color and change them as your light conditions change.

nickE10mm · « **Reply #19 on:** December 05, 2009, 01:12:01 PM »

i did a lot of research on this topic before i got my FO sights on my Razorback which I use for hunting.

the general consensus is that the GREEN sights are better for the human eye to pick out over varying light levels.

that being said, Fusion accidentally put RED on my Razorback when installing and I got my first handgun deer with it last season. ive never had a SINGLE problem with my RED FO sight and could see it brightly even during extremely low light.

Try all three if you can... the nice thnig is that different FO inserts are cheap/free and easy to change out.

uncowboy · « **Reply #20 on:** December 13, 2009, 05:40:50 AM »

GREEN Red disapears in low light and the Green looks like it is running on battarys.

S.B. · « **Reply #21 on:** December 13, 2009, 06:25:55 AM »

Quote from: uncowboy on December 13, 2009, 05:40:50 AM

GREEN Red disapears in low light and the Green looks like it is running on battarys.

Ole Man Dan · « **Reply #22 on:** December 13, 2009, 07:53:56 AM »

1. Florescent Green
2. Florescent Orange

Forget yellow and Red.

(30 yrs ago I put white out on the ft. sight of a black powder rifle, you guessed it... It snowed. I scraped it off and used black in the snow)

John R. · « **Reply #23 on:** December 13, 2009, 01:20:50 PM »

Green all the way!!!