Tritium works well in low light courses, at least for me. Also, at night my home is lit in a way that I wouldn't necessarily need to illuminate a threat for ID...unless the power was out.
Tritium works well in low light courses, at least for me. Also, at night my home is lit in a way that I wouldn't necessarily need to illuminate a threat for ID...unless the power was out.
That's what is called an "I hope" survival strategy.
"I hope the electricity doesn't fail" is not a plan.
get a weapons light :)
I'm old school... have always had tritium sights on handguns... now on ARs... I have great night vision so I like having the option of aiming in near darkness if necessary without giving up my position by using a light. Lights and night sights both have their purpose. I find my tritium front posts very handy when shooting in low light and I imagine that in a combat situation, where you don't want to give your position away and lack NV capabilities, that it would be almost necessary. Trying to make out a black post in a dark environment is difficult. Tritium is good... For a minimal investment, it could mean the difference between life and death and they add no weight to your rifle unlike a weapon light (though I run both).
Likely? Maybe you will be using a WML. Doesn't mean everyone else has one on all of their weapons. I don't see the point on putting it on a carbine because its much more practical to put a light on an AR than many pistols. Agreed if you have a WML it'll negate the tritium in the sights if you use it, but you don't always have to use it.
Having been required to shoot rifles and shotguns at night both with and without tritium sights, I definitely see them as a useful enhancement. I've always been trained to identify the target with the light and if possible go dark and move to fire on it. This is much more difficult to do with black sights. Tritium is also nice for low light if your light fails. On the other hand, my patrol rifle is equipped with a tritium rear which is a complete waste of money on an AR. When aiming the two rear tritium dots are completely invisible. I'm just glad it wasn't my money. Our newer patrol rifles use magpul rear sights and they cannot accept a tritium rear.
It would seem the need to identify the target would outweigh most other considerations; I want to know what I'm dropping the hammer on, tho' I follow the notion of using the light in brief bursts.
What I have found useful are the XS 'skunk stripe' front sights, that in daylight or low light are much easier to pick up than a plain black sight, particularly in conjunction with their 'same plane' rear sights using the ghost ring.
Down at our camp, and at a local indoor range, there is the opportunity to experiment firing in full darkness.
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