Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 Orange Reliable Set

Description

The Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 set is the small frame HD configuration, cut for the Glock 42, 43, 43X, 43E and 48 and excluding MOS models. An orange ringed green tritium front blade pairs with a blacked out rear carrying its own green lamps, so the pistol has a fast daylight sight picture and a usable one in the dark.

Small Pistols Need Better Sights, Not Worse Ones

A short slide means a short sight radius, and a short sight radius magnifies every alignment error. The same few thousandths of front sight misalignment that costs you an inch on a full size pistol costs you considerably more on a 43. Yet slimline guns routinely ship with the cheapest sights in the catalogue.

These are also the pistols most likely to be carried every day and least likely to be shot in good light on a square range. Fitting the Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 set is one of the few changes to a slimline Glock that improves both how fast you find the sights and whether you can see them at all after dark.

One Set Covers The Whole Slimline Family

The fit list runs from the 42 in three eighty through the 43, the 43X, the 43E and the 48. That is convenient, because the 43X and the 48 share a slide length with the 19 while keeping the single stack frame, and shooters often own more than one of these pistols at once.

MOS models are excluded. A slide cut for an optic uses a different rear sight arrangement, so check the slide rather than the box the pistol came in. If your 43X or 48 wears an optic cut, you want suppressor height sights rather than the Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 set anyway.

The Orange Ring And The Blacked Out Rear

Photoluminescent orange is what the eye catches in daylight. Orange separates well from foliage, grass and dark steel, which is the reason it is the more popular of the two colours Trijicon offers. The tritium underneath only becomes the point of the sight once the light drops.

Nothing bright sits on the rear blade. A three white dot arrangement gives the eye three candidates and under pressure it frequently picks a rear dot rather than the front sight. Removing them is the design decision at the heart of the Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 set.

Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 Specifications

• Fits: Glock 42, 43, 43X, 43E and 48
• Does Not Fit: Glock MOS models
• Front Lamp Color: Green tritium
• Rear Lamp Color: Green tritium
• Front Paint Color: Orange
• Rear Paint Color: Black
• Front Blade Width: 0.144 in. (3.65mm)
• Front Blade Height: 0.215 in. (5.46mm)
• Overall Front Blade Height: 0.268 in. (6.8mm)
• Rear Notch Style: U-notch
• Rear Notch Width: 0.169 in. (4.29mm)
• Rear Blade Height: 0.201 in. (5.1mm)
• Overall Rear Height: 0.291 in. (7.39mm)
• Manufacturer Part Number: GL113-C-600785

Why Shooters Choose The Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 Set

• Orange photoluminescent front ring for fast daylight pickup
• Blacked out rear so nothing competes with the front blade
• Wide U-notch with a curved base for quick alignment
• Hooked rear blade for one handed slide manipulation
• Green tritium front and rear with no batteries to change
• One part number covers the 42, 43, 43X, 43E and 48

Notch Geometry On A Carry Gun

The rear notch is a U shape one hundred and sixty nine thousandths of an inch across against a front blade of one hundred and forty four thousandths, leaving twenty five thousandths of daylight in total. On a pocket or appendix carry pistol that generous window is the right call, because these guns get drawn fast and shot close.

Overall front blade height is two hundred and sixty eight thousandths of an inch with the rear at two hundred and ninety one. Those are factory heights, so the Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 set keeps the pistol compatible with every holster cut for a standard gun and adds nothing to the printing profile under a shirt.

Tritium Construction And The Rack Hook

Each lamp is sealed inside an aluminium cylinder, cushioned in silicone rubber against recoil, and capped with a sapphire jewel that spreads the glow and protects the lamp from bore solvent. Tritium needs no battery, no switch and no charging under a light before it works.

The front face of the rear blade is steeply hooked so you can catch it on a belt, a holster mouth or a table edge and cycle the slide one handed. On a small, light pistol with a stiff recoil spring that shelf is more useful than it is on a full size gun, and it comes as part of the Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 set at no extra cost.

Installation And Ordering

Both blades are dovetail fits. The rear wants a proper sight pusher and the front is a hex nut torqued from inside the slide with thread locker. Slimline slides are thinner than a 19, so there is less metal to absorb a slipped punch. A gunsmith will fit the Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 set in minutes.

If you are comparing options, browse the rest of our optics and sights and read the manufacturer specification page for the full fit list and the yellow front alternative before you commit.

MAG5 Firearms is a family owned FFL dealer in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Every Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 set we list is a genuine Trijicon item sourced through authorized channels and covered by the manufacturer warranty. Sights are not returnable once installed, so if you are unsure which height your pistol needs, reach out before you order and we will give you an honest answer.

Ordering The Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 Set

The Trijicon HD Night Sights Glock 43 48 set ships as a matched front and rear pair under one part number, so nothing else needs to go in the basket alongside it. Confirm that your slide is not an MOS cut and settle on a front colour before a pusher touches the dovetail, because neither decision can be revisited afterwards.