Spats McGee
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I have the Glock factory night sights, and I'm perfectly happy with them. (Spats says, knowing he hasn't tried the other sights of which the OP speaks.)
I like them when they work. I don't like them when they wear out. They are expensive to replace and require some degree of skill to replace them properly. Most guns will well outlast their night sights. I have a Glock 17 and the factory night sights are pretty much dead by now. And, night sights are the one thing you don't want to replace with used ones.
Maybe, with a 60's era Eveready. Ever look into the beam of a modern flashlight like a streetlight, or other modern ultrabright flashlights. Being able to shoot accurately wouldn't be the BG's problem. Being able to see at all for several minutes would be!Holding a flashlight right next to your head provides a pretty good aiming point too for the "bad guy"
Yup. Me too. All my Glocks, and a number of others wear them, or the equivalent.I have the Glock factory night sights, and I'm perfectly happy with them.
Some seem to differ here. Not that I dont agree with you.And, night sights are the one thing you don't want to replace with used ones.
Its not, and $100 is on the high side. I usually pay $60-70 for a new set of Meprolights (around $30 for a front alone), which works out to $5-6 a year over their lifetime.$100 every 5-7 years doesnt seem that significant.
Absolutely.There are lots of situations where its too dark to see the sights but still light enough to ID a threat. Even in the daytime...unlighted interiors of buildings.
I agree in both cases.I agree a GOOD quality flashlight is essential kit. But so are night sights IMHO
Todays lights are weapons in their own right.Maybe, with a 60's era Eveready. Ever look into the beam of a modern flashlight like a streetlight, or other modern ultrabright flashlights. Being able to shoot accurately wouldn't be the BG's problem. Being able to see at all for several minutes would be!
I can't really think of any as a private citizen in a SD situation. Even in my own home, the first thing I'm going to do is turn on every light switch I can reach. That alone could well scare off any intruder.For the other very large percentage of possible scenarios
Im typing this after just now installing a set of Meprolights on a new Glock. Sitting at the well lit dining room table, and aiming across the room into the somewhat dark bathroom, at a fixture in the tub, I can clearly see the dots, and a perfect alignment. I cant see a traditional sight picture against the dark fixture, itself, in a shadow. If there were no tritium there, Id have basically no sights at all.I can't really think of any as a private citizen in a SD situation. Even in my own home, the first thing I'm going to do is turn on every light switch I can reach. That alone could well scare off any intruder.
As far as outside, my house is well lite around any entrance area.
Or it could just show them where you are, when before you had the element of surprise.Even in my own home, the first thing I'm going to do is turn on every light switch I can reach. That alone could well scare off any intruder.
Or it could just show them where you are, when before you had the element of surprise.
I have no enemies,
Maybe so, but if we spend our lives cowering behind locked doors obsessing over them, then we've allowed them to win.There are people in this world that name you an enemy....
You don't give up anything by having them. They can't fail in a way that impacts you.
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There are people in this world that name you an enemy....
Maybe so, but if we spend our lives cowering behind locked doors obsessing over them, then we've allowed them to win.
There are people in this world that name you an enemy....
Maybe so, but if we spend our lives cowering behind locked doors obsessing over them, then we've allowed them to win.
They can make locating your own gun in the dark easier, seeing as you should know roughly where it is anyway.