TargetTalk

Here's what the rule book says (from the ISSF web site):

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8.4.2.3 Sights: see the Pistol Specification Table 8.16.0.

Only open sights are allowed. Optical, mirror, telescope, laser-beam, electronically projected dot sights etc., are prohibited. Any aiming device programmed to activate the firing mechanism is prohibited. No protective covering is permitted on front or rear open sights.

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Unless a front sight with fiber optic insert falls into the "etc." category, it should be OK.

Is it safe to assume that the front sight need not be flat-topped at all?

ronpistolero wrote:Is it safe to assume that the front sight need not be flat-topped at all?

Yes

Any photo's of sights with either a light source or fibre optic lighting/insert?
Do I understand from all that is said here that lighting up the front sight on an AP with light source that is attached to the pistol is within the rules?

Sort of.

One point, one questgion:

1. They don't need to be "flat topped" but that doesn't mean they can be hooded, enclosed, circular, etc. etc. etc.

2. You have to ask, why do you ask? Some pretty bright people have been studying up on this for quite some time. Sometimes- not always, but perhaps more so than 50-50- there is a reason why some things are the way they are . . .

guest new to AP wrote:Any photo's of sights with either a light source or fibre optic lighting/insert?
Do I understand from all that is said here that lighting up the front sight on an AP with light source that is attached to the pistol is within the rules?

this would be getting into 6.4.3

Spencer

It would seem, to me, that simply putting fiber on top of your sight (or in a groove in the sight) is really no different than painting your sight some color other than black or painting a dot on the shooter side of the sight.

Stan