FAQ

To get the sight enclosure into the gun slide, first, make sure you’re going in vertically and not at an angle.  Once it’s most of the way in, if, after pressing down on the sight enclosure with the supplied allen wrench through the access hole, and moving the enclosure upwards, past the extractor/depressor plunger, it still won’t lock into place, give a light but quick rap to the bottom of the sight enclosure in an upwards direction.  This will lock the sight enclosure in place.

Do you have an additional backstrap added to your gun?  It may be the issue.  Some backstraps will not work with green light sights.

While you can learn to use Green Light Sights in 30 seconds, they are not a substitute for professional training.  You should always learn the basics of trigger control, grip and presentation from a qualified instructor using iron sights first.  Iron sights will help you see imperfections in your skill set more easily than Green Light Sights will.   For the most realistic training, get our Force on Force optics for your Airsoft or Paintball guns and start training under the pressure of simulated gunfights.

Please clean the lens gently with a microfiber cloth.  No liquids are needed.

At gunfight distances, you don’t need pinpoint accuracy. That kind of accuracy comes at a cost . . .time. It slows you down. It makes you a target. What you need is to be accurate . . . enough. You want fast consistent hits to the torso without giving your opponent a static target to easily return fire towards. In a gunfight, speed and movement are what keep you from getting shot.  At 9′ (the most common gunfighting distance), when you get a green ‘target lock’ indication, impact will happen between the sternal notch and the belt line.  At 14′ a green ‘target lock’ indication will impact from between the eyes to the pelvic bone.  To be more technical, these lenses have a 270 MOA.  We believe you want sub MOA on your rifle for accuracy, but a high MOA on your handgun for speed.

Inside the anodized housing is a lenticular lens.  The lens is designed so that the image will only flash green when the eye, barrel and target are in line.  For more information on how this works, watch our HOW IT WORKS video on the home page.

Yes. Green light sights co witness with your normal sights and red dot sights.   As they are optimized for high speed, close range shooting, we suggest you use them when shooting closer than 20 feet, but transition to iron sights from 20 feet  to 60 feet.  For shots at 60 feet and beyond, we suggest the use of a red dot or holographic sight. 

Yes, Greenlightsights are waterproof.  The layers are UV fused so no water can get inside them.  There are also no electronics in our optics.   However because lenticular lenses work by bending light, if the lenses get we and water gets in between the lenses, the optic will temporarily lose some reflectivity. Simply wipe the optic with a microfiber cloth to remove the surface water and you’re good to go…

Peripheral vision is situational awareness. Traditional sights with a single eye focus on the front sight cause tunnel vision. This is only further exacerbated by stress. When we lose peripheral vision, we don’t see other opponents potentially coming in from our flank. When peripheral vision is optimized, the parts of the brain associated with reaction time, coordination, balance and mental flexibility are also optimized.

There are two conditions where Green light sights are not optimal.  On a very sunny day with the sun directly behind you, the green optic may be so bright that you cannot easily distinguish the white (off target) and green (on target) images.  Also, our standard Green light sight optic (green) requires ambient light.  If you want to be able to use them in the dark, consider getting our glow in the dark night optic insert.

Focusing on the front sight is a great way to make accurate shots from 20 to 60 feet,  from cover . . . but that’s not the reality of most gunfights. They’re at 3 yards, with 3 shots fired in 3 seconds and you have no cover and no concealment.  All you have is movement.  If you focus on the front sight at these distances, you lose speed, peripheral vision and depth perception.  Also, since you can only focus on one focal plane at a time, if you focus on the front sights, the target will become blurry. Is that a gun or a cell phone he’s reaching for in his waistband . . .

Yes, in fact people with poor eyesight will find our sights much easier to use than traditional sights.

The metal is 7075 aluminum, one of the highest strength aluminum alloys available.  Its strength to weight ratio is excellent and often used in conditions where high stress is expected.

If you’ve ever done Force on Force training with airsoft, paintball or simunitions gun, what becomes immediately obvious is that anybody that stands their ground in a gunfight gets shot.  If you can get 2 shots off (Speed) before your opponent takes their first shot, depending on your shot placement, you may be able to stop the threat without getting shot.  Since we can’t count on this, we also want to be a moving target (Movement) to minimize the chances of our opponent shooting us as we continue to make hits on them to end the threat.

The optic is made of many thousands of individual lenses.  This means it is extremely resistant to damage.  In our destructive tests, we took a knife and made multiple deep scratches onto the surface.   While the scratches were visible, they had no impact on the functioning of the device.  The were merely cosmetic in nature.  Even ugly, they still work and… if you ever need to, you can replace the lens.

These still work.  You won’t necessarily see white vs green, but you will see changes in brightness.

Green light sights only correct for vertical displacement.  Correcting both axis would defeat the purpose of being caveman simple under stress.  Fortunately, horizontal alignment is fairly intuitive especially after some dry fire practice?

Green light sights will accelerate your training time and the time it takes to confirm you are on target, but you still need the basic skllls.

If you don’t like the sight, return it within 10 days and you’ll get a full refund (minus our shipping and handling costs and the unrecoverable 3% we’re charged by Paypal to process your card).

If you have one of our first generation systems that use screws, and you lost some and need more, send us a SASE and we’ll send you some more.  Alternately, you can place 3-5 layers of masking tape on the back of the optic and it will stay in place via friction.  If instead you want to upgrade to the current snap in model (no screws), you can do that for $30 plus s/h.