Choosing Iron Sights and the often made mistakes
Iron sights are one of those rare accessories where we hear about problems with durability. It seems that it is pretty hard to mess up iron sights at the factory, most of the mistakes made with iron sights are when people that are mounting them on gas blocks. We are always being asked general questions on holsters, accessories and optics but from a liability standpoint, we have to ask our customers a lot of questions so we don’t sell them the wrong thing. If they walk in looking for iron sights for their AR15 but don’t volunteer any information about what gun they are putting them on, whether they are trying co-witness the sights with an optic or if they have a magnifier, we don’t know for sure they are buying the correct item.
We highly recommend people think about what they might be doing with there customer built or accessorizing down the road even if they aren’t going to do it immediately. I have several sets of Troy Sights that I have sitting in my tool room that had to be pulled off of my LWRC M6A2 after I found out that my Eotech Magnifier would not perfectly clear the rear Troy sight when it was locked into place. I need to spend another $100 for a lower profile sight just to get better alignment with my setup. If you mount the less expensive Magpul Sights on a gas block you are going to get a point of impact that is off as well as possible melt the sight. Avoid having a $35-$100 mistake and make sure you are buying the sights you are going to get the most out and not have to all out replace because they don’t cut it. Magpul Flip up sights will work for most people with a front and rear sight combo usually being under $90 and the next step are probable the Troy Iron Sights.