New to AR's.  Bought my first one today, from a local shop.  It's your basic rifle with 16" SoCom barrel, standard lower, milspec trigger, and picatinny rail.  Magpul 6-position butt and an ergo pistol grip with a wedge front grip.  I purchased it without sights, because I didn't know what to get.  Didn't want to spend money on something I may not be happy with, and wanted to do some research and find the RIGHT sights for my use before I part with my money.

I DO NOT intend to use a scope or optics with this rifle.  I want fixed iron sights.  Can anyone help me select a set of flat plane sights like that?

Do Want:
tritium or other "glow" type
FIXED
IRON

Don't Want:
polymer
flip-up
45 degree offset

Thanks in advance.

I know DD, PRi, M.I and troy have fixed sights. Friend runs the troys and likes them. I think they have Tritium ones now.

Buy a blitzkrieg front sight post for your iron sight. They have the chevron sight post with tritium.

Any front sight that takes a milspec front sight post can be replaced with the Trijicon CP25F.

Any rear sight which uses a milspec flip aperture can be replaced with the Trijicon CP25(this is a set of front and rear)

Lewis Machine and Tool as well as Daniel Defense both make nice front and rear fixed sights.

Daniel Defense.

DD.

These are best

I don't think any one makes iron ones.  Have you considered steel?

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Your post is antagonistic in nature, and in violation of the forum rules.  You know, as well as I do, that the term "iron sights" refers to a steel alloy, or also aluminum.  Basically iron sights is anything NOT made of polymer and NOT an optical sight.  But you knew this, and just wanted to be a dick.  That's on you, not me.

Do me a favor and take your childish attitude elsewhere.  I'm not here to fight, but I have no problem calling people out for being jerks.  
I just asked for information, and you want to play symantics.  FO dude.

Definition:

The term iron sights generally refers to a non-optical system for aiming a gun or firearm. Optical sights include scopes, holographic sights, red/green dot sights, etc.

Iron sights don't have to be made of iron. In fact, almost no iron sight is actually made of iron - they are most often steel, aluminum, or some other alloy. For this reason, many use the term "metallic sights" instead of iron sights.

That said, your sights may be made of some kind of plastic and still sometimes be called "iron sights," just because they're not optical sights.

I do use an Aimpoint.

I had a Trijicon FSP and didn't really care for it all. I kept it for a long time though because IMO there is a lot of logic in having one. But I didn't like how wide it was. It really made precision shooting at any distances difficult. It would totally cover the target.

The tritium rear sight lasted until I went out for one night/low light range trip. It's not like rear night sights on a pistol at all. I found the glowing dots too close to my eye. It cluttered up my sight picture.

Befor I got the Aimpoint I used Daniel Defense rear fixed rear sight with the standard front sight base.

YMMV.

Cheers!
-JC

Welcome aboard!

Cheers!
-JC

i like a2 rear sights

Fixed irons with a glow element have a number of designs. The blitzkraig offering forces you to do one full rotation of the sights to ensure the glow side faces you, the shooter. The consequence is that it is a gross adjustment of possibly 5 inches on a rifle length system, and possibly a gross adjustment of 7.5 inches on a carbine.

With other front sight designs, such as the Trijicon listed above, you still have a large front sight post that is larger than the A2.

The only compromise that I like is the blitzkreig white chevron which needs only two clicks per adjustment vs the four of the glow or tritium chevron.

In my opinion, your best bet would be the Magpul pros with the blitzkreig conponents glow post for the front sight. This lets you do minor adjustments instead of the gross adjustments of the sights that still use the traditional front sight design.

And

Lighten up.

daniel defense, just buy the complete set and be done.

i have a set and they are exactly what you are looking for

i do like that it is super simple to understand the labeling on the sights for sight adjustment

plus all you need is a bullet to adjust the rear.