Tritium on BUIS; worth it?
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Not worth it to me. It's only cool for the first 10mins when you go all tactical in your house with the lights turned off... lol
Save your $$ and buy the regular one and spend the savings on ammo instead. But that's just my opinion.
Save your $$ and buy the regular one and spend the savings on ammo instead. But that's just my opinion.
By then the tritium will be depleted....
I think the tritium sights on my Swiss Arms are neat, but I never use them. Although the tritium in my TR24 scope is also neat, I never use it at night either...... ya, just buy ammo.
Or you can just stick these on a regular set...and when the fad wears out, you've only lost $12. 
http://www.nitesiters.com/Nitesiters_Handgun_Night_Sights.html
http://www.nitesiters.com/Nitesiters_Handgun_Night_Sights.html
I had tritium front/rear on an 870 and found the rear sight is so blurred (as it should be if you're focusing on the front) that it wasn't worth it to have the tritium. Not sure of the configuration on an AR sight, but this was a very small tritium insert at the 9 and 3 o'clock on a ghost ring rear. Not worth it, in my opinion. Front sight maybe, but even then it's not worth the extra money for me.
As mentioned above having tritium on the rear sight is a poor choice. Its blurry, can ruin your natural night vision and obscure the front post. If you're going to run tritiums do the front only.
As for running night sights in general. I see it as an absolute if you intend to train or ever need to defend life. Some competitions do low light shoots as well. For the most part however, they are rarely used.
Tdc
As for running night sights in general. I see it as an absolute if you intend to train or ever need to defend life. Some competitions do low light shoots as well. For the most part however, they are rarely used.
Tdc
When I was in officer training about 20 years ago we had a night shoot on figure 11 without any illumination. I am guessing the range would have been 50 yards. The targets were visible. But through the aperture trying to find a black post on a black target was impossible. All my rounds were way low off of the scoring zones.
As I posted, for those who train or even compete a set of night sights is necessary.
Tdc
TDC would you elaborate further on just having the front post tritium?
My 1911 has front and rear night sights and I can align them quickly but I could see how they could interfere with ones night vision. My P226 has a tired set of tritiums on the front and rear and they are just noticeable in pitch black, very easy to line up but don't seem intrusive.
However I've never had the opportunity to shoot in the dark with them so I have no idea how I would perform.
My 1911 has front and rear night sights and I can align them quickly but I could see how they could interfere with ones night vision. My P226 has a tired set of tritiums on the front and rear and they are just noticeable in pitch black, very easy to line up but don't seem intrusive.
However I've never had the opportunity to shoot in the dark with them so I have no idea how I would perform.
Night sights on a handgun are different. seeing as how there's nothing to keep the back aligned with the front(in relation to your eye and the target) except the rear sight and hopefully a solid form, its necessary to have an illuminated rear to properly align both front and rear of the pistol with your target. With the pistol pressed out in front of you the distance between your eyes and the tritium vials is similar to the distance of the front sight on a rifle. The result is a near zero negative effect on your natural night vision.
With a rifle, your mounting of the rifle should be consistent enough to align your eye with the rear aperture without a visual check. The rear sight should be a blur at the best of times and tritium only makes the whole sight picture a blur. Try looking at your pistol night sights while holding the rear sight the same distance from your eye as the rear sight on your rifle, the problem becomes very visible.
Having said all that, a set of tritium buis isn't going to net you any stellar scores. Aside from dusk/twilight the rear aperture is non existent so your accuracy or rather your consistency is reduced to whatever the rifle will print while keeping the illuminated front post somewhere inside the rear aperture. Naturally as distance increases the margin of error follows. tritium irons are a short range tool. The large aperture on your irons is for close range and low light. If you're consistent and canm run your tritium irons with the small aperture you'll score more hits. Being able to mount the rifle quickly in the dark and align the small aperture(0.090" I believe) with your front post on demand is something that will take a lot of practice.
Tdc
That is true. The only reason I have them on a rifle is because that rifle is in the car with me every day at work.
I would never waste the money to put tritium sights on my personal rifle.
I thought they were cool at first...on a buddies rifle then I went back to my optics and was like who wouldn't want optics...people who insist iron o very optics are the same people who wanna use a WW2 era glass to shoot long distance on their trg42...even though j just made that up I seriously hope no one thinks that way...nastalgia belongs in the dictionary not in the form of tritium on your AR
