Would you like the velocity of a dot sight with out the majority, the batteries and the prospect of mechanical failure? Properly then the Hello Viz FastDot H3 Tritium and Fiber Optic system is likely to be simply what you’re searching for.
Trade Day on the Vary takes place a day earlier than the SHOT Present formally begins. It’s a reside hearth occasion for media and business that takes place on the Boulder Metropolis Rifle Pistol Membership, positioned simply exterior of Las Vegas. Whereas it’s at all times good to get some set off time in, that point on the vary additionally lets the gun and out of doors media expertise some issues first hand that is likely to be onerous to totally grasp simply taking a look at pics on the net, and even dealing with the product in a sales space on the present. For me the Hello Viz FastDot H3 was a type of programs.
The FastDot H3
The FastDot H3 is mainly a set of iron sights obtainable for Glocks , S&W M&Ps and Protect pistols and SIG P320s, but it surely works lots in a different way than different iron sighting programs, together with different programs that Hello Viz provides. Sometimes with any sighting system you line up the entrance sight with a groove, notch or some type of aiming level on the rear sight. Generally there are dots or traces concerned, and generally some tritium or fiber optic rods to boost issues however typically they work fairly equally. The FastDot doesn’t.
The entrance sight on the FastDot isn’t that a lot completely different than many trendy entrance sights; it consists of a fiber optic entrance publish and there’s the choice of getting a tritium insert as nicely. Good things, however nothing uncommon. The rear sight is the place issues get attention-grabbing.
Whenever you take a look at the rear sight you’d count on to see a notch of some kind, however you received’t discover it. As a substitute you’ll see a single good sized dot protruding from the sight, mounted useless heart. If you happen to suppose it appears to be like like it could obscure the entrance sight, you’d be proper; it does. And that’s simply what it’s meant to do.
The idea on the FastDot is that you just stack the dots consistent with one another. Not on prime of one another, just like the “dot the I” tyle sights however you actually need the entrance sight instantly in entrance of the rear dot, to the purpose the place you’ll be able to’t see the entrance sight in any respect. If you happen to catch any of the entrance dot creeping across the rear you aren’t lined up accurately. Consider it like an Eclipse.
The rear sight ought to get between the shooter’s eye and the entrance sight, obscuring it totally. When it does you realize the entrance and rear are in line and your sights are lined up on the right track. When you will have a correct sight image, all you see is one dot, identical to if you happen to have been wanting by means of a purple dot sight.
So why would this be fascinating in comparison with a conventional notch and entrance publish, or 3-dot kind setup? Pace is the principle factor. Fairly than your eye making an attempt to findp the entrance publish, and line it up in a notch within the rear or with a few different dots, all you’re searching for is a single dot. Just like utilizing a red-dot sight on a pistol.
I’ll be trustworthy, it took me some getting used to, which is why I used to be glad I obtained to strive it on the vary, with somebody there to elucidate it to me. It’s easy to make use of, however if you happen to’re used to utilizing conventional iron sights it’s good to “untrain” your self. I initially spent an excessive amount of time squinting down the sights making an attempt to get issues simply so, quite than simply bringing the sights as much as eye degree and letting issues fall into place naturally.
Curiously sufficient my buddy, who was with me on the vary, tailored to the FastDot a lot simpler than I did. It’s notable that he has lots much less set off time behind a pistol than I do. He didn’t have the normal sight image as ingrained in his mind as me, and tailored in a short time to the system. He was getting hits on metal a lot faster, and extra precisely, than me. He had it down inside the first journal out of the gun. It took me a pair mags and a few teaching, but it surely’s a type of issues that after you “see” it, it’s an “Aha” second, after which you will have it.
I nonetheless suppose it’s one thing that wants common observe, identical to utilizing a purple dot. You observe your draw, deliver the gun on the right track and purchase your sight image. This could simply be completed at residence with dry hearth observe, and even simply drawing and bringing the pistol as much as eye degree.
Set up
I had an opportunity to check out a set of FastDot’s at residence after the present. They arrive in a primary clam shell bundle with some easy directions. You want a Glock entrance sight software which HiViz sells if you happen to don’t have one, and a solution to put the rear sight on. I’ve sight pusher that I used, however I’ve additionally tapped rear sights in with brass punches earlier than. I even did some changes with a punch as soon as I had the rear sir sight on place after checking it. After all you’ll be able to at all times take them to a gunsmith if you happen to don’t have the instruments your self, or bribe your buddy who does with some pizza or a 6 pack.
I’ll add a be aware on match. The entrance and rear sight bases on the FastDot system are considerably lengthy. In case you have a pistol with an optics minimize the rear sight goes to overlap the minimize cowl plate. If you happen to’re utilizing the FastDot sight anyway, you in all probability aren’t planning on operating an optic so it shouldn’t matter, but it surely’s price noting. There’s a model for the Glock MOS pistols although that locations the rear sight additional again to accommodate this. To date that’s just for the Glock although.
Equally you probably have a slide with a port or lightening minimize behind the entrance sight, like my aftermarket 17L slide, the entrance sight base could dangle over that hole. I ended up mounting my sights on a comparatively manufacturing unit profile aftermarket slide on a Poly80 construct that I did a pair years in the past. It was one of many few slides I had with out an optics plate. It’s a 17 sized gun although so was a superb check platform for the FastDot anyway.
As soon as put in I had an opportunity to work with the FastDot’s round the home with observe presentation and dry firing, in addition to on a pair vary journeys.
Observe On Ideas
Do I feel the FastDot sights are as exact as a superb set of goal irons? I don’t, and I don’t suppose that’s a good comparability. You aren’t going to make use of these for gradual, exact goal capturing. However as a fight sight, they excel, if you happen to put slightly little bit of time into them. It’s completely different arrange, but when you may get previous that they quick, and work nicely.
If we return to my opening remark about wanting a purple dot, with out the disadvantages, there are a selection of issues to think about. You get the straightforward to make use of “drop the dot on the right track and hearth” good thing about a purple dot, however with out the majority, without having a particular mount, and all whereas having the ability to use an everyday holster. If you happen to’re upgrading a gun you carry now, you don’t have to purchase new holsters for it such as you would in lots of circumstances if you happen to go to a purple dot. You additionally don’t have to get your slide milled if it isn’t optics prepared both. The opposite profit is the price of the sight itself. MSRP for the tritium fiber optic items is $179.00. That’s on par with different good tritium sight units in the marketplace, however significantly lower than an obligation rated purple dot sight. And also you by no means have to purchase batteries for it.
The HiViz FastDot H3 is a strong system all the way in which round, if you happen to’re prepared to spend some coaching time with it, identical to every other new platform. I feel it’s really an important system for newer shooters since lining up the dots appears to be simpler to elucidate, and really do, then explaining and mastering a correct notch and publish sight image. My pattern measurement is small, however when demonstrating it to some novice shooters they appeared to understand it and get on the right track quicker with the FastDot than the manufacturing unit Glock sights. They don’t have something to unlearn and the training curve for them is simple. Older, curmudgeonly guys like me need to work previous how we “know” issues work to appreciate that there are nonetheless improvements in how we shoot, and that not all of them need to be costly or difficult. FastDot sights are positively a type of.
HiViz FastDot H3 Specs:
Low Profile sight set
Suits: All Glock pistols in 9mm, 40 S&W, and .357 Sig.
Sight visibility in all mild situations
Extremely vivid encapsulated Tritium
All metal building
Suits commonplace holsters
Patented know-how
MSRP $175
