My thoughts:
1. Might as well get the tritium, it can’t hurt anything and can only help. I have tritium rifle sights on my SD 870s and had them on my work shotguns before retirement. They’re perhaps not absolutely necessary, but I sure like them.

2. Only you can answer the color question, everyone’s eyes are their own. I personally pick up yellow/green better than red/orange. Other folks are the opposite. We’re all correct.

 

Orange, Tritium

 

I have XS big dot tritium express rifle sights on my 870P. The big dot insert around the front sight tritium lamp is white. I've never had a problem seeing the front sight in any lighting condition.

As for yellow or orange... I installed Trijicon HD XR tritium night sights on my G19. Like you, I didn't know which color, yellow or orange, on the front sight would work best for me, so I ordered front sights in both colors, installed them, and found out that yellow worked best for me.

 

I will go red/orange tritium when I do it someday lol

 

XS big dot orange/tritium (green) on m590 20 gauge
Nightstick.

 

I bought the Big Dot mainly for low light so I went with yellow and tritium. It really does help in low light but if you use your light, the color and tritium disappear. What you have then is a very nice, highly visible profile of the XS sight. I think it was well worth the money.

 

What flashlight mount are you using?

 

Did I just reply to a thread that is over a year old??? duh.......I gotta learn to look.

 

Run a Magpul forend & a Streamlight TLR RM1/2 FTW

 

I always go tritium & orange. Have one on my 870 & one is going on my Mossberg 500 as well. I pick the orange up best & fastest

 

Your intuition was spot on. The Streamlight TL-Racker and the Surefire Forend are good ways to have a WML on a shotgun, but with both units your support hand rests up against the hard plastic of the forward part of the forend housing the light, and under recoil, this hard plastic slams against your hand, especially if you employ a push/pull method of recoil control...it kicks less but your hand hurts

Your solution eliminates the problem entirely allowing you to have a slimmer, unobtrusive forend and still have a light. I currently have a Magpul forend on mine with the intention of mounting a light on it, but the light gets in the way of a full grip. I have had the Hogue forend on several 870s and it is a good choice also.

 

Every once a a while a guys gotta be right....LOL! Thought I would share a few pics of the orientation and mods to the Magpul forearm since it comes up higher than the Hogue. Took less than an hour and even with the light off, you don't really notice what had to be removed.

Have a great weekend!

 

You did not have to take off much at all...very clean installation great job!