Question on fiber optic sights in low light

I prefer a "get both" approach with Truglo TFO fiber optic night sights.

Fiber optic sights look like iron sights at night with a weapon light.

railroader said:

Fiber optic sights look like iron sights at night with a weapon light.

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This, they're silhouetted against the target/light just like regular iron sights, so nope no more useful. Since I carry a light, and my HD guns all wear WMLs, night-sights have a small band of usefulness between; "I can't see my sights, but I can ID a target as a threat".

Chuck

Good listen on the subject. Knows more and says it better than I could.
http://ballisticradio.com/2017/01/2...allistic-radio-episode-194-january-22nd-2017/

Like another poster indicated, the Truglo TFO sights are nice. I replaced the stock sights on my XD-40 with the Truglos.

socalbeachbum said:

thanks guys. I agree about the small band of usefulness of tritium sights.

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That small band of usefulness could be really important someday.
Fiber optics just "amplify" light in low light conditions, that's why almost every bow hunter has a FO sight.

I do the TFO sights

Great night or day

Another vote for the Truglo TFO's.

Night sights always show up as black posts behind the weapon light. Only when I stop to really look at them do they show up as having a green glow. Under stress its always black posts regardless of light, but it usually ends up in my peripheral as I'm not as focused on the sights when I'm looking for a threat. I do notice them when I switch the light off to reload but that's about it. I run tru glo on my personal pistols and they're good for the range.

Any sight is going to be nothing more than a black silhouette against the beam of a weapon mounted light.

Personally, I've never really liked a shallow V (no notch) and big Dot sight arrangement. It's fast and easy, but I'm too indoctrinated into Patridge sights to ever get comfortable with the reduced precision of the shallow V + big dot. Against a weapon light beam, your sight picture isn't as refined and crisp as it is in open lighting, so centering the dot (especially with it's domed hood sight body) is a bit more difficult. It's easy to find your front sight, since it's not covered side to side by the rear, but I've never had difficulty finding my sight with Patridge sights, and ensuring a proper centering of the sight picture is more difficult.

Lots of guys love the big dot sights, I'm absolutely not one of them. I do like having the crisp rectangular light window and crisp rectangular front sight post silhouetted against my weapon lights. If you're not used to a Patridge sight for fast acquisition, then a shallow V + dot might be easier to learn, even if the precision won't be there - just depends how short your barrels might be and how small you want your POI spread to be on target.

For any application fiber optic is an advantage, tritium is the same or greater advantage, so if a guy spends money on FO, he can't really say his utility for tritium is limited. Either both are useful, or both are NOT useful for you.