Some would say it is not a big issue, but we believe it presents an atrocious appearance and comes without pride of workmanship and ownership.
All of these problems stem from the effort to mislead consumers into believing they are getting a Genuine Novak Sight, while they are getting a cheap, inferior knock-off. This disingenuous behavior exhibits no concern for integrity, disrespect for the consumer, extremely poor quality control, and a total lack of understanding of how and why correctly fitting the sights is so important. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but no imitation or any flattery is worth betting your life on.
The lists below shows companies that use our sights and those who choose to use or make imitations. We will update this list as often as possible to keep the information current.
Thanks to all of our customers past, present, and future for choosing Genuine Novak Sights! We look forward to supplying you with the best possible products now and in the future.
Last Update: April Colt — Genuine fronts and rears. Ruger — Licensed rears and genuine fronts and rears. Remington — Genuine fronts and rears R1 Carry models only. Taurus — Licensed rears. Lionheart — Licensed fronts and rears.
Cabot Guns — Genuine rears. Christensen Arms — Genuine fronts and rears. Double Star — Genuine fronts and rears. Ithaca — Genuine fronts and rears. Inland Mfg — Genuine fronts and rears. Republic Forge — Genuine fronts and rears. Remsport Mfg — Genuine fronts and rears. Stealth Arms — Genuine fronts and rears. Cylinder and Slide — Genuine fronts and rears. Tussey Custom — Genuine fronts and rears. Harrison Designs — Genuine fronts and rears.
Springfield Armory. Nighthawk Custom. Uselton Arms — UA. Companies that currently make unauthorized imitations or misrepresent as Novak Sights.
Sight Types and Styles Explained. This provides individual shooters with the best, fastest, most accurate sight picture based on their personal sight style preferences. Remember, it is what will work best for you, not for what someone deems is the best for all. We value all of our customers and want to give you the best possible tools to help insure you win the encounter, while hoping it never occurs. The different basic styles available for front sights are plain black, white dot, tritium dot, fiber optic, brass bead, and 14kt.
The various front sight types will aid in the shooters eye being attracted to the front sight. The front sight is the focal point in aiming a handgun, the rear should be slightly blurry and the target should be slightly blurry.
Try not to shift your focal point back and forth. When that happens, most shooters will move the muzzle out of alignment without noticing and it slows down the sight alignment process. Rear Sight Styles. There are different styles of fixed and adjustable rear sights available.
The styles are plain black, white dot, white bar, tritium dot, tritium bar, and fiber optic. There are also different rear sight notch styles available as well. They are standard notch. The sight notch is the opening in the rear sight that the front sight is placed into or viewed through when sighting. The main thing to remember when selecting a rear sight is that it should not overwhelm the front sight.
If the rear is more eye catching than the front, you will have a harder time finding the front sight quickly. This must be applied and determined by you, your visual acuity, and how you perceive the sights.
It all depends on your ability to differentiate between the front and rear. S method ; it is hard to get a fast and good sight picture in a high stress situation, especially when tenths of a second matter.
Sometimes the best thing is a simple, to the point configuration. All of this information is for you to disseminate for yourself and your particular needs. As always, we will be here to assist if you have any questions. All of the front and rear sight styles available will likely lead to questions and concerns. This may help you in choosing a sight style. Plain Black Style Sights. The first style is a plain black.
The rears will be just black around the sight notch, which is excellent for allowing your focus to go to the front sight. This is an ultra fast and very simplistic sight alignment process. However, when paired with a plain black front, which may be fine in bright conditions, the front lacks some attraction to draw your eye.
That combination is near useless in dim or dark conditions. Another drawback would be the lack of a rear reference point in dark conditions. Although defensive ranges are usually greatly reduced in dark conditions, a tritium front would be reference enough to make hits on target at those ranges.
The next style would be dots or bars, with some minor differences between white and tritium in type. Dots seem to be the current standard today. While dots are an okay sight picture, it does have major drawbacks.
The rear dots tend to overpower the front and your focus shifts to the rear allowing for confusion when aligning the dots. Bars tend to be more useful due to the shape difference with the front dot. The opposing shapes make it easier to discern front from rear, but there is one possible draw back and that is the bar has a larger surface area that may have a tendency to draw more focal attention to the rear.
These same rules will apply with tritium dots and bars, except in low light conditions. Confusion of the three dots in low light can cause the front dot to be the dot outside of the two rear dots, if there is limited or no visual reference to the sight notch. With dot over dot configurations, the front dot tends to be lowered below the rear dot because the average human brain perceives it as seeing double and tries to automatically correct that perception.
This tends to happen under periods of high stress, and is where the bar rear is superior. The two opposing shapes of the bar dot configuration, represent a preprogramed condition that we all have learned from birth and practiced since. The first condition is the sun and the horizon relationship, which would distinguish between the dot the sun and the bar the horizon. Secondly is signing your name on the line or placing a period at the end of a sentence. This preconditioning we received is a great thing to take advantage of, but it will still depend on your perception of your sight picture and what works for you.
The fibers tend to be great for daylight and attract the eye with their brightness and your preferred color. Although in some cases, it may be too bright or overwhelming if fiber is on both the front and rear. Another draw back with fiber is it is fragile and always seems to come out at the worst time. It is also poor in low or unnatural light conditions because of the short lengths of the fiber, but it is usually more visible than white dots.
Remember that fiber amplifies existing light and it is not a self-contained light source like tritium. Fiber also tends to be affected by some solvents, oils, and will degrade overtime.
The good news is that the fiber can quickly and easily be replaced if you have spare inserts. Brass and gold beads are great options for high visibility, not quite as bright as fiber, but will last as long as the pistol or longer.
The key difference between them is the brass is less expensive, will need to be cleaned and brightened from time to time, and is not quite as bright as gold. Gold beads tend to reflect slightly more light in low light conditions. If you can identify your target positively, you can see the gold bead. Rear Sight Notch Styles Explained. You next need a basic understanding of the different notch sizes and styles. This is all personal preference when choosing the size and style.
It is very heavily dependent on how you perceive your sights, your visual acuity, your shooting ability, and the task that the pistol is going to fulfill. The notch size needs to be large enough to quickly acquire the front sight, but not so large or poorly defined that the sight is not easily evenly spaced in the center of the notch.
The larger open space in the notch can make sight alignment difficult for pinpoint accuracy at distance, but it is quicker and easier to acquire the front sight.
Less open space helps with evenly aligning the front and rear sight, but it is difficult and slower to acquire the front sight. The largest notches are great for close quarters shooting and moving targets, but make precise shots very hard to accomplish until the your skill level and ability increases. The four notch styles we currently offer are the most commonly sought styles. We have made a multitude of notch styles over the years in just about every configuration imaginable.
While the rejected notches may have been very unique, they did not provide any significant proven benefit or improvement to target acquisition or accuracy.
What we consistently observed with the rejected notches was the overwhelming fact that they added to sighting confusion from beginner through highly experienced shooters. We still experiment and test different notch styles.
However, we only offer the four current styles, in certain sight models only, as described below. It is the easiest to use, least problematic, and most commonly preferred by far. It allows some individuals to align the sights quickly, but others tend to have a focus change while not realizing they are trying to align the bottom of the notch and the dot on the front.
This causes a slightly low point of aim point of impact for most individuals. While it has performed well for certain individuals, it does share some of the same drawbacks as well. This explanation of the styles and notches might have made it seem more difficult to choose. However, do not get discouraged. You now have a basic understanding of all the different options.
This should have been helpful for you to begin to determine what will be the simplest set up to use for your needs. Select what will be the simplest notch size and style that will benefit you — the K.
It is hard to go wrong if you go with what is simple and what you think will work best for you. Understanding Sight Heights and Adjustments. This is a very simplified explanation of how adjustments can be made, without all the mathematical calculations, technical data, and ballistic information about a specific firearm. I'm just curious what the advantages and disadvantages would be? I know the target sights are adjustable but I have heard they are also bulkier and can sometimes snag on clothing.
I don't know the validity of the that statement as I have never owned a pistol with target sights. If you ask me, Novak-style sights look better haha.
Basically more precision with target sights. Combat sights are adjusted for a particular round trajectory. So sights on a 45 might be sighted for a fmj and will zero at say 15yds. It'll shoot different points of aim at 5 and 25 but will be well within a steel torso plate or b27 target. So if you shoot 's the sights will be high or low. Adjustments are made by height of front sight. You can dial in target sights but they're not nearly as "practical" or better "tactical".
Search forums. Log in. Install the app. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Novak sights - why? Thread starter fordag Start date Sep 3, Tags combat novak one hand sights. Do you think it is important to be able to manipulate your pistol with only one hand?
Yes, I understand it is a possibility and I practice it. Votes: 7 Yes, I understand it is a possibility but I don't practice it. Votes: 2 No, I don't believe the chances are high enough and it is not a concern for me.
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