Works as advertised
There is definitely a broad spectrum of solutions for more specific situations than I can recollect this minute.
On one extreme is my friend John, he lives in Yucatan and hunts in the night, his night sights are a "well polished front iron sight" (with a little spit sometimes) which will catch any moon glow. On the other extreme is the "Tactical Operator", with equipment worth several thousand dollars, which allows him to get in, wreak havoc and get out in the middle of the night, all without being noticed.
If we trace a straight line between the two, we would have to decide where we are in terms of budget and expectations.
There a re no perfect solutions, only efficient ones, there is no doubt in my mind, if the American revolutionary forces had something like this during our struggle for independence, we would have won sooner.
( I can already see it coming: "No, not that, tritium! tritium matey!")
I would say how many of this iron sights can you "paint " with tritium?, I know with a Glow-On vial I can paint about 40.
A few facts: It takes for the normal human eye about 30 minutes to adapt to night vision, at this point, color can hardly be detected, our peripheral vision is enhanced, in fact we do better looking that way than directly, under those conditions, meaning, you wake up in the middle of the night, not only you'll be able to go for your shooter, your flashlight,(if you used a couple of squares on your flashlight as well) and you'll be able to line a shot.
Like everything else, there has to be a "getting used to" time to be efficient ( please remember to practice with an unloaded weapon please).
Glow-On at this point will look like a ghostly glow, that is why we now call it Glow-On Ghost Sights.
Why practice? Weapons and musical instruments have one thing in common: Practice makes perfect.
You just have to try on your own what works best for you, just swing that bat , if you miss , just wait for the next ball, I have a collection of red dots just by trying, a few rifles, pistols and such, just by trying:22a:
And I'm all for that. Somewhere in a post I wrote; Just send me a self addressed envelope to
PO Box 12328, Oklahoma city OK,73157-2328 and I'll be glad to send you a small square of the self adhesive, put it over a light switch, a remote control, whatever, what is there to lose?
A note on "works as advertised":
Under most regular conditions, nothing really works as advertised, if we get lucky, at best, things work as expected. We just have to try.
Maybe to get those 75 MPG out of that car I just bought, I have to drive it it downhill on neutral from the top of Pikes Peak.
And that wonderful thingy that promised to erase those pesky wrinkles and crow feet of my face , maybe it'll work as advertised as soon as someone explains to me how I should apply the darn photoshop thingy everyone is talking about:blink:
Live long, Gato