Screw Meprolight

[cmshoot]

Was issued a new P229 recently. Some have Meprolight sights, some Trijicons.....mine has Meprolights. Soon after I got it, the front sight quit glowing. It was glowing over the weekend, and on Monday it wasn't.

Called Meprolight about getting a replacement. Only way to get a free one was to send the messed up one back. That wasn't gonna work.....I kinda need a front sight. So I had to pay for one. They cut me a discount on the sight, but it still irked me.

Got the new one in and then mailed them the shitty old one so I'd have a spare. Good thing that I did because a five months later the replacement front sight went out.

I swapped it with my spare front sight and ordered a set of Trijicon sights. I'll never use Meprolight again.

 

[AtlMedic]

That sucks you had to spend your own money to keep an issued gun working.

 

[cmshoot]

That sucks you had to spend your own money to keep an issued gun working.

Long story

 

[AtlMedic]

Long story

Probably best you went with trijicon. I try and stick with trijicon but I'm going to give some ameriglo sights a shot. They have a front sight similar to the trijicon HD and solid black rear for under $70. The HDs are just a bit out of my budget.

 

[cmshoot]

Probably best you went with trijicon. I try and stick with trijicon but I'm going to give some ameriglo sights a shot. They have a front sight similar to the trijicon HD and solid black rear for under $70. The HDs are just a bit out of my budget.

I always use Trijicons or Heinies in my personal guns, but this was an issue piece so I used what came on it.

 

[Rwjeter]

I have had no problems out of my Truglo tritium's. I know I know.... I'll just go over to the poverty thread now. Lol. That really sucks though. I've had an similar issue with some of my tools for work. Send it in and if we feel like it we'll replace it. And in the meantime?

 

[George P. Burdell]

Will trijicon just ship a free replacement without mailing back the old one? I would think that would lead to a lot of people asking for free replacements..

 

[cmshoot]

Will trijicon just ship a free replacement without mailing back the old one? I would think that would lead to a lot of people asking for free replacements..

In the totality of my circumstances, yes they would have.......or so says the Trijicon rep I dealt with.