Night sights?
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NeverEnoughFDE
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Yes on anything you carry or use as HD. Bonus for me is the orange sights are much better for me vs 3 dot white etc junk
Riomouse911
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I spent a solid twelve of my first fifteen years as a weekend, graveyard LEO. In my experience, night sights are a great help to anyone using a firearm for SD/HD in situations like @wayneinFL showed above. They aren’t a be-all-end-all fight-stopping solution, but you would rather have and not need them than the other way around.
Remember, you won’t get to pick the date, time, place or the weather when joe dirt decides it’s your turn to be a victim, those cards are all held by the one(s) committing the felonies. Since victims almost always start at a reactionary disadvantage, you might as well have as many things to help you already on your side before events turn ugly. Having sights visible in low light, or no light, is a good thing to have IMHO.
YMMV.
Stay safe.
Remember, you won’t get to pick the date, time, place or the weather when joe dirt decides it’s your turn to be a victim, those cards are all held by the one(s) committing the felonies. Since victims almost always start at a reactionary disadvantage, you might as well have as many things to help you already on your side before events turn ugly. Having sights visible in low light, or no light, is a good thing to have IMHO.
YMMV.
Stay safe.
I understand and see those sights, but might the target be in backlight? I’m not so sure that I could identify a moving individual in that light. Best night sights are a good tactical light. If the world as we know it has ended and only Zomibies are on the attack, then I’m reaching into the closet and pulling out something more than a handgun.
Yep...my experience as well...coyotes in the close in paddock, skunks, possums and coons in the horse feed bins in our barn...you get the idea...I've got good tritium on several of my autos for that reason. Best regards, Rod
Yep....Rod
BRatigan
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I have them on my Beretta and love them. I can find my weapon in the dark and can acquire a target readily. It works for me.
jar
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I have them on several pistols but not on the majority. Probably well over half of the pistols I own and carry couldn't have night sights installed without some serious bucks in machining.
I am sooo over NS.
For the past 35 years I had/have NS on 90% of my pistols.
The juice just isn’t worth the squeeze when it comes time to replace them.
After all I won’t pull the trigger in complete darkness.
And in ambient light a fiber optic or gold/brass bead will do well. If not, I should have a flashlight handy.
For the past 35 years I had/have NS on 90% of my pistols.
The juice just isn’t worth the squeeze when it comes time to replace them.
After all I won’t pull the trigger in complete darkness.
And in ambient light a fiber optic or gold/brass bead will do well. If not, I should have a flashlight handy.
I have experienced a number of different lighting situations in which I could see well enough identify a person by their facial feature and see what they had in their hands, but the light was too diffuse for me to see the non-illuminated sights at all. The example that comes to mind is under a full moon with little or not artificial light present. If I can see well enough to distinguish threat from non-threat, but I can't see sights, then night sights make a big difference and I don't need to manage a light as well. If I can't identify a threat at all, I'll use a light. The light washes out the tritium most of the time while given a better outline view of the sights than I see in full daylight, but I've lost nothing by having the tritium sights. So very useful for some circumstances and no hindrance in others.
Zerodefect
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Night sights are a major hindrance to me.
Front sight is too fat. Sight picture is too messy.
When you noticed your sights weren't visible, were you within 15 yards of the target?
Front sight is too fat. Sight picture is too messy.
When you noticed your sights weren't visible, were you within 15 yards of the target?
trackskippy
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The too fat from sight was always the one complaint I had for most of the night sights. That has changed for the better these days and there are more options these days.
Ameriglo had night sights with a good "combat" compromise that has good "gap" for fast reactive shooting. They also have versions with a bright front ring that stands out and your eye quickly picks up.
With the night sights, they are always visible, regardless of the distance. Theres always "something: to see there. A few years back I put a set of all black, Warren Tactical sights on one of my Glocks. Kept hearing from the anti night sight people I was "doing it wrong".
Nice "target" sights, but they didn't last long and are currently in a box somewhere. In bright daylight, they were fine, for the most part, but in lower light they quickly disappeared on anything that was dark. Indoors was a lot worse.AlexanderA
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I find that luminous (reflective) paint, such as that found on the Beretta M9, is more practical than the Tritium, such as found on the Sig Sauer M17. I have three Sig Sauer M17's / M18's, and the "night sights" on them (even when new) were too dim to be of use. And remember that radioactive elements decay, so that even if they're bright to start, they're going to become dim after a few years. This is a gimmicky feature that's been oversold.
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If they were dim when new, something was wrong, or you were sold old sights. Tritum has a 12 year shelf life, and most makers guarantee them for that. I normally always get about 9-10 years out of mine and will change them up then. They are still fairly bright, but compared to a new set, the difference is obvious. As a plus, Ive usually sold the old set off on eBay and got around $40-$45 a set for them, which is about half the cost of a new set.
Ive never understood the luminous paints. If the gun is in a holster and under cover, then the sights don't get the light needed to bring them to life. Worse yet, if the rear sights are exposed to light, the front sight will probably be a lot dimmer than the rear, which is the opposite of what you want no matter what, so wheres the advantage with them?
Ive never understood the luminous paints. If the gun is in a holster and under cover, then the sights don't get the light needed to bring them to life. Worse yet, if the rear sights are exposed to light, the front sight will probably be a lot dimmer than the rear, which is the opposite of what you want no matter what, so wheres the advantage with them?