Has anyone ever used a Blitzkrieg A2 front sight post?

DDadams · May 13, 2024

Has anyone ever used one of these? Any shape or color? How did you end up liking it?

I was going to just paint the tip of one of my A2 front sights and try that but then I saw these and after seeing there was a Chevron with tritium I'm kind of sold on the whole thing. Expensive, for sure, but I think it looks great. Not sure about the practicality of the night time application but it can't hurt to try. I'm just wondering it I can find a rear sight that will also have tritium now.

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Cavman · May 22, 2024

DDadams said:
Has anyone ever used one of these? Any shape or color? How did you end up liking it?

I was going to just paint the tip of one of my A2 front sights and try that but then I saw these and after seeing there was a Chevron with tritium I'm kind of sold on the whole thing. Expensive, for sure, but I think it looks great. Not sure about the practicality of the night time application but it can't hurt to try. I'm just wondering it I can find a rear sight that will also have tritium now.

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Looks really interesting. If ya do get one , keep us updated. Id be tempted on one

DDadams · May 22, 2024

Cavman said:
Looks really interesting. If ya do get one , keep us updated. Id be tempted on one

I'm definitely going to get one just unsure which at the moment still.

Using tritium on an A2 post never even crossed my mind before. Almost seems like a gimmick but I've bought much more expensive gimmicks in the past so I guess I don't mind being the test dummy for ingo if nobody else has tried it.

Cavman · May 22, 2024

DDadams said:
I'm definitely going to get one just unsure which at the moment still.

Using tritium on an A2 post never even crossed my mind before. Almost seems like a gimmick but I've bought much more expensive gimmicks in the past so I guess I don't mind being the test dummy for ingo if nobody else has tried it.

I can see the benifits of it. On my shtf rifle I use the front sight post stil. So I just see this as enhancing it.

DDadams · May 22, 2024

Cavman said:
I can see the benifits of it. On my shtf rifle I use the front sight post stil. So I just see this as enhancing it.

I had the same thoughts. It can't hurt - even if the illumination is barely visible.

88E30M50 · May 22, 2024

I have one on an SBR and love the thing. It's easy to ring steel at 80 yards offhand with the little 10.5" barrel.

tcecil88 · May 23, 2024

I have 2 or 3 of them on various AR's and I like them.

Cavman · May 23, 2024

tcecil88 said:
I have 2 or 3 of them on various AR's and I like them.

Do ya notice any bigger shot groups with these over a standard front sight post?

tcecil88 · May 24, 2024

Honestly, they are on my AR pistols. I sighted them in at 50 yards and let it go at that. I would imagine that the point on top of the sight post would lend itself to good groupings and that's how I sighted it in as well.

krvincen · May 24, 2024

Maybe for the rear aperture see if Meprolite makes one? I have the Mepro flip up sights on my LWRC 16DI as back ups and front has orange line with tritium dot in center and the rear aperture has four tritium dots top bottom left and right. Line those all up and works great day or night. Perhaps they make a replacement for the rear on a carry handle?

krvincen · May 24, 2024

Not sure if they sell the rear separately to run with the front you have in mind or if you’d have to buy the set and only use the rear but they do make both two dot and four dot tritium for A1/A2 setups

DDadams · May 25, 2024

I'm very picky about irons in general so I don't know if I'd try out the mepro rear ones but the two a2 front post rifles these would be going on have a rear fixed scalarworks and the other is waiting on the LMT folding imperial rear so I doubt anything is compatible with them. I feel like in relatively low light where this could even be usable I probably wouldn't need rear tritium but maybe I'm wrong.

All I know is I'm sick of cheap irons and especially polymer ones.

I made it a personal goal of mine to get just about as adequate as I am with an optic with my irons and really want to give a solid go at trying to only use irons for a year or so to improve with them. Especially offhand because I may as well go fisticuffs if I have to shoot irons offhand at the point where I am now, it's just that bad to be honest. And I don't like that.

DMTJAGER · Jun 27, 2024

I have them on two of my AR's and like them much better than the stock non illuminated post sight.
They are essentially indestructible. Been using them for 6 years now. Be advised though, unlike standard four sided AR front post these are two sided only meaning your adjustments for elevation of bullet impact will be at a factor of 2x VS 1x for every adjustment.

Dog1 · Jul 7, 2024

DDadams said:
I'm definitely going to get one just unsure which at the moment still.

Using tritium on an A2 post never even crossed my mind before. Almost seems like a gimmick but I've bought much more expensive gimmicks in the past so I guess I don't mind being the test dummy for ingo if nobody else has tried it.

A long time ago when night sights started to come out, Trijicon actually made a tritium A2 front sight post. But they stopped making it a while back. Unless they started production again I haven't seen one for sale forever, especially after flat top ARs became all the rage..

Take that back

https://www.trijicon.com/products/details/cp25f

DDadams · Jul 7, 2024

DMTJAGER said:
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Be advised though, unlike standard four sided AR front post these are two sided only meaning your adjustments for elevation of bullet impact will be at a factor of 2x VS 1x for every adjustment.

I hadn't seen anyone anywhere else point this out. I don't really get severe autism about pinpoint zero on my irons but I did want to give it a go doing classes for the better part of a year just using irons to get better with them so that would definitely be something to at least keep in mind.

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