Do you consider night sights essential on a carry gun?

[thegreyman]

Do you consider night sights a necessity on a carry gun?

[reloader550]

Yes, all of my carry guns have Trijicon HD sights installed on them.

[SamuelBLong]

No they’re not a necessity, because you should be carrying a handheld light, which will either illuminate or backlight your sight picture and target.

What is more important is a set of sights that zero properly on your gun with your chosen carry / duty ammo, and that they work for your eyes and level of acceptable accuracy / purpose.




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[donlapalma]

Considering that all my carry guns have night sights I suppose my answer is "yes."

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[jesuvuah]

In truth no, but all my handguns have them.

In my own limited testing, if you could identify a target, you could at least make out the silhouette of your gun and get on target. But they can help be more precise in lowlight.

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[ggammell]

Absent a red dot, yes.

[jmoore]

With increasing age comes an increasing reluctance to use a weapon light in many situations - the proverbial bullet magnet effect. Night sights on all my weapons. YMMV

john

[Leuthas]

No they’re not a necessity, because you should be carrying a handheld light, which will either illuminate or backlight your sight picture and target.

What is more important is a set of sights that zero properly on your gun with your chosen carry / duty ammo, and that they work for your eyes and level of acceptable accuracy / purpose.




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I don't imagine if I ever have to draw my pistol in the dark I'll have time to first draw my handheld light that I may see.

[Pappabear]

Mine all have NS so I cant say otherwise. But with a flashlight , if you have it will work. But why chance it. They are cheap and everywhere.

PB

[seb5]

I think when they came out we all had to have them. Most of my defensive handguns have them but I think now we have lights and I also think that 25 years ago we were training to be able to hit the target and the main focus now is identifying the target. If there's enough light to ID the target there's enough to hit the same. Now somebody will come along and act as if I said we didn't used to have to ID the targets.........I just think that most training now emphasizes it more than it used to whether it be law enforcement or CCW. So, the answer is that they're probably not always needed but I still prefer them.