night sights
Everyone has a point, no way denying it.
The important thing is your weapon sights are the mean to acquire your target, even if your weapon lacked at all any post or such, you would have to find the vector that aligns the barrel of your weapon with the intended target, that is until someone finds bullets with a mind of their own, ( not impossible, we're not there yet though).
Important points:
1.-People who have some type of night sights were able to find their weapon faster in the dark. They don't have to "remember", they just go for it.
bigjack59 brings a very important point, peripheral sight during the night or in the dark works completely different than during the day, so acquiring a target in the dark is "different" but you'll still need to know "where' the sights are.
2.-Night sights might not save your life but they are mighty dandy in low light situations, you might not conscientiously "see" them but they register in your brain:
Here on the left a luminescent material, on the right a plain orange color, they look the same to ou sight because the presence of light:
The same two pieces only in a more dim environment:
Here is when the real advantage of a luminescent sight system becomes evident, we may pose the question: Am i gonna need them at all? The answer could be, "Maybe never" but if the time comes, you just imagine the circumstances yourself, you'll be glad you had them all along, yes?
3.-Leaving scopes and red dots completely aside, the options are less than a handful, there is tritium and there are luminescent materials like Glow-on,
none of them is perfect, but, what is?
here some luminescent dots, made with the self adhesive material by glow-on.com, next to some 7.62x54r rounds:
4.- If during a challenge with an attacker there is not enough illumination who do you think has the advantage position?
5.- Visibility is basically the most important point, is hard, if not impossible for people who use to use their eyes for everything to use of anything unless they ca see it ( exception made of visually impaired individuals who use a completely different set of skills to do exactly the same).
headbangerJD, brings a very important point too, you cannot shoot anything you can't see, so the addition of a small tactical light is necceary under certain circumstances:
Here a combination of both night sights and flash light:
I am not going to argue the merits of a specific material, nothing is perfect, there are not perfect solutions, only perfectly adequate solutions.
Before I and my minions developed Glow-On I had tritium on a couple of pistols but as my collection grew bigger, I found less and less sets for things like old revolvers, rifles and shotguns, and some new pistols like my new PF9:
In all truth the orange material we are testing we think is a good "day sights" material, it needs very little light to be activated, is super bright in dark conditions, but the glow last a few minutes, meaning it will be visible during the day weather you go into the basement, under a tree, under a car, go inside your garage etc.
The orange is not for sale as of yet, we are beta testing it and we need feedback, so for the purchase of a single vial, ($13.31 including s&h) we are shipping the single 1.5 ml vial good for several pistols, or fishing lures etc.(try this with tritium) plus an appreciation package consisting of a couple of strips and ten small 15mm x15mm for rear sights or a remote control etc.
We could argue, as I have, weather this system is good or not, a growing customer base has confirmed Glow-On is brighter than most of the stuff out there including tritium,( we are investigating those claims ), we think we have something good in hands, we want to share, but it doesn't come cheap.
However members of this forum who order the single vial option, please write on the instructions to seller form:
"A firing line member"
And my minions will include ten green dots and ten orange dots for you to evaluate.
Finally, before i overstay my welcome, to the question:
Are Night Sights Worth The Extra $$ ?
I'll answer with another question:
Can you afford not to have them?
If you guys are like me, who loves guns and has a collection, an affordable solution like Glow-On might be the answer, especially since I'm not a wealthy man and have to live under a budgets limitations.
The replies pointing out that on a mouse/carry gun the night sights would be superfluous convinced me so if they still had the other one I would have gotten the standard pistol anyhow but I didn't have to make the choice.
