Night Sights

[Rodfac]

Pat, Outstanding posts...Rod

 

[Risky buisness]

Won't have a carry pistol without them installed. XS big dot on my G 19, meoprolites on a G17, XS big dot on my social shotgun and when i carried it, a tritium dot vial from trigicon worked into the front of a Smith M19 21/2".

 

[Caplock]

I like being able to see my rear sight glowing in my pitch black bedroom at night. (Front is in a holster)
Wake up at 2 in the morning roll over and I can see it's right there before falling back to sleep.

 

[silicosys4]

just bought a sig with fresh night sights. Previously I had owned guns with night sights, but they were all years old and fairly dim.
The fresh night sights on the sig are not a "must have" by any means, but they do come in handy for rooms/situations that are too dim to see normal sights well, but not dark enough to need a flashlight.

 

[Ks5shooter]

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[AgentPickle]

You started the same discussion at the beginning of the month. Why?

I was doing preliminary research and forgot I hat posted it. Sorry.

 

[AgentPickle]

That's fine.

I was just sharing the viewpoint of a professional trainer that has extensively studied the civilian defensive use of firearms.

Folks can review both viewpoints and decide which makes more sense for their use.

As also a professional trainer on the civilian side, I tell my students they need night sight. I follow the advice of LEO trainers and other more experienced trainers I have been taught by.

 

[JTQ]

As also a professional trainer on the civilian side, I tell my students they need night sight. I follow the advice of LEO trainers and other more experienced trainers I have been taught by.

The LE/MIL paradigm

What Happens in a Civilian Gunfight

I recently read this article on Tom Givens' Rangemaster Patreon feed. While I'm not a big fan of Patreon's politics, I love how they allow me to directly support the content creators I enjoy. Rather

www.activeresponsetraining.net

 

[tdbmd]

How many of you guys have night sights on your defensive firearms? If so so you have a favorite brand? I voice my opinion in the vid.
Night Sights

Most of my handguns have night sights but I have one red dot and CT grips on my snub nose J-frame

 

[NeverEnoughFDE]

I carry a Ruger Security 380. I comes from the factory with a front night sight and blacked out ready nots sight. I love it and so found it better than having both front and rear night sights.

When did they do night sight from factory? My name ife had one and it was a FO front

 

[Zerodefect]

I never go anywhere without a flashlight it’s a must have in my book. I’ve noticed in today’s world the led light is very abundant. Almost every parking lot seems to be very well lit. Very bright light and cheap to operate, I think more businesses is starting to install them. Whole let better than the old orange lights from back in the day.

Im starting to think fiber optic might be the way to go. Very visible in daytime and at night I’m gonna use a light so any sights will be drowned out.

+1. This is the way of experts.

It ain't easy. Requires tons of training. But a thin FO front sight, and plain black rear, shred night sights 95% of the time. The remaining 5% is point shooting or flashlight.

To ruin the high performance, and range, of day time sights, to utilize a sight that might almost work in the dark, isn't a good trade.

But I do have a couple night sight pistols still. Single dot. I consider them a bit dated.

 

[Zerodefect]

Let's use the good pic that Pat posted:



Square 1: Huge advantage to FO front, plain rear.

Square 2, indoors : Advantage to green FO front, plain rear.

Square 3: Massive insane advantage to red FO front, plain rear.

Square 4: Maybe tie, maybe advantage to the night sights.

If you can still see the outline of the iron sights, then FO front, plain rear may have an advantage due to wider gaps in the sight window, and or thinner front sight.

If you have normal night sights, they often won't glow in dusk conditions. But some massive front night sites will glow brightly, and have an advantage.

It's a toss up based on specific conditions. And since I'm most likely point shooting anyways........I lean towards day time sights usually.

Square 5: You're screwed. Can't see the target.

So I'm giving the advantage to FO front, plain rear. Because why ruin my daytime sight picture, for a tactically useless glowing sight with no visible target.

Square 6: Advantage to FO front, plain rear. With your flashlight on, a thin front sight will allow more light in the gap of the sights. Better speed. More contrast.

Unless your light is too bright. Too bright and the front sight gets washed out as you blind yourself. A thicker sight blocks more light, and simply is less likely to get wash out.

Surefire makes auto adjusting, dimming, combat lights to mitigate this problem.

I generally avoid TFO sights. While they do what they say, you can clearly see that the rear sight is often brighter, and 3 dot sights are a bit distracting. They simply don't work well for me when I push my limits.