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My House Gun... Okay wait, ONE of my house guns is a Glock 35. It's the one that is beside the recliner. I pulled the gun OFF the magnet that secures it to the edge of an end table to insure it didn't need lubricating or attention and check the batteries in the mounted light... and noticed that the Trijicon Night Sights were dead. Then I thought about it, and realized that the gun was two decades old. Guess they had reached their half-life. I had originally bought this gun to shoot in Glock Shooting Sports matches, mainly falling plate matches. These days, it's mostly retired, resting beside the recliner for "Home Invasion" duties. There has been a marked increase in the area, but NOT so much in the rural homes. Better to be prepared.

This is the Glock:


These are the sights I have had on the gun since I obtained it:


It was a match gun when I bought it and the original owner had polished the barrel assembly so the slide ran smooth as silk. They had replaced the factory sights with the trijicons. I just replaced the springs as needed as shooting matches as I did resulted in a high round count.

I started looking at replacement sights, and since I wasn't going to shoot competition, I looked hard at the XS Big Dot Night Sight line. I got lucky and came across a nice 40% off sale, and ordered a set. Big Dots are good for old eyes and fast target acquisition, but NOT for FINE bullseye type accuracy. Worked for me as this was now going to be a seven to fifteen yard speed gun.

The sights arrived promptly, and I was impressed.


Since I had been the Department's Glock Armorer and done a good bit of off duty work for my Officers and fellow GSSF shooters at my Home Bench, I had purchased the Glock Sight tools, so installation was smooth and simple. Took about thirty minutes. I remembered to make light pencil marks to record the position of the old rear sight notch and set the new one in the same position. New sight installed.


Now just need to get down to the range and test fire for accuracy....

I Loaded everything up in the ranger and headed down this morning. I was looking forward to shooting my old friend again, it had been a while. The long slide Glock 35 .40 caliber was always a pleasure to shoot. I took the Glock Sight tool along in case I did need to make adjustments.


Setting up a target at ten yards, I prepared to test the new sights to see if my reference marks did their job.


I fired the first five shots, and I was one happy camper. I wasn't expecting one hole groups with the big dot sights, but this was a nice group and verified the sights were where they needed to be. I pulled the target off the cardboard, and prepared to shoot some (semi) rapid fire.


I moved up to seven yards, and fired ten shots. I didn't blaze away like I was shooting a machine gun wasting ammo. Semi-rapid, as I call it, would be like rapid fire in a match. At the 12 rounds in 20 seconds pace. Fired as quickly as I can get the sights centered back on target. That big orange dot leaps into view.


I was VERY happy with that group, and loaded 'er up and did it again. Same drill, semi-rapid. I am loving the XS big dot. They are also available in the night sights with the lemon yellow.


All right, I'm good. Brought it in and cleaned 'er up. Back on duty.
I'd say my old Glock 35 will do the job.