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sensei wrote:I need to keep things as simple as possible.

Ray

There is always some little gem of wisdom in your posts there muh man!

Paladin wrote:Low light encounters are extremely common. I forget the statistics, but I believe they are more common that regular-light encounters.

Night sights are nice, but just because you can see your sights....it doesn't mean you can see what you're aiming at. You need to be able to see what you're aiming at. You don't want to shoot your kid or family member or buddy cause you thought that they were someone else.

One of my buddy's got some night sights on his Glock because his buddy at the FBI had night sights. He found they work great for seeing his sights in the dark, but he can't see anything else... so in the end they're not that useful to him.

A flashlight is better than night sights. You can ID your target. You can also use it to search. And you can use it for a million other things. I believe a flashlight is essential equipment. Night sights are a 'nice to have'.

Bingo!

Threat, or "target identification" to me is the priority...

I don't think its a good idea to shoot at something or someone in a "real" situation without having a really good idea what or whom it is...

I will know, with sufficient time to spare, what I am going to do in most
situations...

I got a couple of dogs that are the best alarm clocks, and alarms for that matter, that sound off at the most appropriate, and in-appropriate times...

If I hear or feel that it is more than a squirrel running across the roof...Well...

Therefore, I will have time to grab the home defense pistol on the nightstand (with the nifty mini Q-Beam flashlight), position myself where I know I have the advantage, and have Wife Unit on the phone (under cover) calling the calvary...

So having a night sight modification done to any of my firearms has not been too much of a need for me so far...

But if its something you really want to invest in, and from what I have seen they aren't too expensive, I'd go for it...I think it would help in certain situations...

You guys got me going now...I'm going to my "store" to oooo, and ahhhh for a while before lunch...

And thinking I wanted to do something else on my day off...