Talk to me about night sights.

One of the most useful things a person can do is to simply pull your piece out and take a look at it and the sites in a variety of lighting conditions and places. Take note of what you can and can't see. If having a gun in your hand at a restaurant or movie theater would be troublesome use something else as a stand in, using it like a barrel and observe. Pay attention to lighting.

The Tru-Glow, or fiber optic, sights are useful in low light situations. They work by picking up any residual light in the area, natural or artificial, and focusing that through the bit of colored rod. Over the last decade or so they have shown up on hunting rifles and a variety of handguns. You can notice that sites on rifles and handguns can wash out in the shadow of forests, some times of the day, when aiming from shadow to deep shadow, etc. The fiber optic sites do not work in complete darkness or very low light because they require some light to work.

The Trijicon type do work in complete dark and in dim lighting conditions.

Where ever you happen to be note the lighting. If you can't have a piece with you and pull it to check what you can and can't see, use a stand in object. Can you see the edges of the phone, or pen clearly? If not you won't see your sites unless there is an optic on them. Draw your own conclusions.

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The fiber optic sites do not work in complete darkness or very low light because they require some light to work.

The Trijicon type do work in complete dark and in dim lighting conditions.

Tru-Glo now builds combination sights that use fiber optics and Trutium so you can have the best of both worlds

http://www.glockstore.com/truglo-tritium-fiber-optic-sights

TFO gun sights use the same proven technology as our TFO archery pins. These sights are the most revolutionary innovation since TRUGLO, Inc. introduced fiber optics. TFO refers to our patented combination of Tritium and Fiber Optic technologies.

The tritium maintains the brightness level of the sight in low light (or NO light) conditions. That means you can see your sight even in complete darkness—with perfect transition through all light conditions. Tritium does not need batteries and does not need to be charged with light—it simply glows!
 
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