I like my H&K P30L quite a bit — other than it came standard with glow-in-the-dark dot sights. In my case, glow-in-the-dark dots are less than ideal; nor are lines, white outlines and all the rest. Just give me a nice big flat “no glare” rear sight with a front sight sized so I see lots of light between the outline of the rear and the outline of the front.
I have found over the years and especially as my eyes have gotten older, more light around the front post makes for better groups. Having a wider rear notch and a fat front is a shooting aid. I have also found a taller front with a corresponding rear notch is beneficial for sight alignment.
Old eyes can never have everything in focus, so you have to learn to achieve an even amount of “fuzzy” around the sights. Bigger sights and more light make this easier to manage. Dots, lines and the like just make for a fuzzy, jumbled visual mess, leading to registration errors. I find vertical stringing is my bug-a-boo in this regard.
Getting glasses set up correctly is a definite aid and this link provides a good start on how to get glasses. There’s a great article titled “I Can See Clearly Now” providing an excellent primer on the right shooting glasses setup. Just search for the title, and you’ll find it.
In the case of this gun, if I need it for problems, I will not have my “shooting glasses” on. I will be wearing my daily pair or worse yet, I might be wearing my single-vision sunglasses. Making the sights as friendly to poor vision for a carry gun is a must.
Part of my solution to the above problem was addressed in an easy way — spending money. The not so easy part is detailed in the photos and captions provided here. I own a milling machine. However, making a rear sight from scratch is time-consuming, so I purchased a rear sight from Dawson Precision. Since altering a front sight is easier, I modified a front sight I had in my junk bin.
For more info: DawsonPrecision.com
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