Willyboi ~
I have regular access to a low light range, and practice in dim & no light fairly often.
In a building so dark that I cannot see my front sight, I am able to draw and hit three IPSC targets in the C zone in less than 3 seconds, at five yards. My low light draw & fires -- hitting the A-zone of an IPSC target at 5 yards -- generally take less than 1.8 seconds from concealment. That's without the laser, and I can do this all day long. These aren't my best numbers, but simply the average. On my best day I'm a little faster.
I tell you this not to brag, but simply to make some observations:
1) I am considerably faster at low light shooting with the laser than I am without it. (Of course I practice both. Foolish not to.)
2) While I can always hit C zones on multiples without the laser, and without the laser I catch the A zone doing multiples about 3/4ths the time, with a laser I always hit dead center of the A zone when I'm doing multiples. My hits are better and more consistent with the laser than without.
3) Shooting moving targets in the dark, I can usually but not always hit the C zone without the laser. About 25% of the time I hit A zone, about 25% of the time I get D zone, and about 50% of the time I get C zone. That doesn't sound too bad, until you realize that a moving target on the range moves smoothly and predictably, compared to the jerky, unpredictable movement of a human being in real life. With a laser, I can always hit C zone or better, and 90% of the time my hits will be in the A zone. (Oh, distance? Five to seven yards, somewhere in there.)
4) Around barricades, I am so much faster and less fumbly with the laser than I am without it that it simply beggars description.
So I'm not a bad shooter in low light. But with a laser in low light, I'm better. My hits are faster, better, and more consistent. I'm quicker on target and when the targets are scored, my scores are far better.
I dunno about you, but I don't care what the FOF guys do. I only care what I can do. Anything I can do to increase the safety of my family while decreasing the safety of the bad guy, I'm going to do.
Oh, incidentally -- there's another option for low-light practice in full light. Take a pair of cheap eye protection goggles, get a can of spray paint, and spray a light layer of paint over the lenses from about two feet away. Make it just thick enough to block most the light, but thin enough that you can see only the outline of your gun at arm's distance. You can mix colors of paint if you want to; that seems to work a little better because it gives a "shadowy" feeling. Mimics low-light conditions pretty well.
pax
I have regular access to a low light range, and practice in dim & no light fairly often.
In a building so dark that I cannot see my front sight, I am able to draw and hit three IPSC targets in the C zone in less than 3 seconds, at five yards. My low light draw & fires -- hitting the A-zone of an IPSC target at 5 yards -- generally take less than 1.8 seconds from concealment. That's without the laser, and I can do this all day long. These aren't my best numbers, but simply the average. On my best day I'm a little faster.
I tell you this not to brag, but simply to make some observations:
1) I am considerably faster at low light shooting with the laser than I am without it. (Of course I practice both. Foolish not to.)
2) While I can always hit C zones on multiples without the laser, and without the laser I catch the A zone doing multiples about 3/4ths the time, with a laser I always hit dead center of the A zone when I'm doing multiples. My hits are better and more consistent with the laser than without.
3) Shooting moving targets in the dark, I can usually but not always hit the C zone without the laser. About 25% of the time I hit A zone, about 25% of the time I get D zone, and about 50% of the time I get C zone. That doesn't sound too bad, until you realize that a moving target on the range moves smoothly and predictably, compared to the jerky, unpredictable movement of a human being in real life. With a laser, I can always hit C zone or better, and 90% of the time my hits will be in the A zone. (Oh, distance? Five to seven yards, somewhere in there.)
4) Around barricades, I am so much faster and less fumbly with the laser than I am without it that it simply beggars description.
So I'm not a bad shooter in low light. But with a laser in low light, I'm better. My hits are faster, better, and more consistent. I'm quicker on target and when the targets are scored, my scores are far better.
I dunno about you, but I don't care what the FOF guys do. I only care what I can do. Anything I can do to increase the safety of my family while decreasing the safety of the bad guy, I'm going to do.
Oh, incidentally -- there's another option for low-light practice in full light. Take a pair of cheap eye protection goggles, get a can of spray paint, and spray a light layer of paint over the lenses from about two feet away. Make it just thick enough to block most the light, but thin enough that you can see only the outline of your gun at arm's distance. You can mix colors of paint if you want to; that seems to work a little better because it gives a "shadowy" feeling. Mimics low-light conditions pretty well.
pax
One more thing, no problem with wash out on my M6X, and you do own the night. 
