Nathan, I wont ever try to say I’m better than the next guy, but. I am a 23 year Special Forces Combat Veteran that has been to the most intense and selective shooting schools the military and civilian has. I trained with world champion Jerry Barnhart for a week. He has trained, as have I with Tier 1 units. I have competed for fun and got a rating with IPSIC. But now, with age comes wisdom. Whatever lets me shoot faster and more accurate is the way to go. Laser, I’m not shooting for competition. We used lasers in combat that you could only see with night vision. They work.
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So I take it you walk around all day with your goggles/ headgear on so you can see the laser on your EDC?
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You are funny. I use the other kind now.
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Just asking a question here. Can you shoot from any position without looking at your sights and accurately hit your target with those night/fiber sights? I can hit with my Kimber and Crimson Trace laser with no site picture or alignment.
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Point shooting is a thing. Having a visible spectrum laser can be a negative as it can become something to aim at. Everything has its ups and downs… except thermal lol.
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For private citizen concealed carry and not night vision only special forces (guessing mostly on rifles there?), what advantages does the laser give over an RDS?
Edit: Got to the next response. No, I cannot (exceptionally) accurately fire my handgun when I cannot see the top of my handguns where the sights reside. But I also don’t worry about being able to use my pistol in a self defense situation where I cannot look down the sights and need to accurately hit a target too far away to point shoot/NPOA. I find significantly greater speed and accuracy looking at the sight systems at the top of the gun than trying to find and follow a laser on the threat
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tritium night sights with large dots. Because with the lack of any lighting I can still see them and get on sight fast. I have not been so lucky with fiber optics. You see, I live in Washington State, and it is dark and cloudy a lot of days and I mean a lot! At times, we have our lights on in (daytime) because it is dark.
Of course, I am old school. It took me a while to turn from my .357 to a .45 - 1911.
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Yes Sir, and without any sights because that is how I have trained with my carry pistol.
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I have multiple platforms with fiber sights stock, basic sights, and one recent purchase with tritium sights.
Liking the looks of the tritium so far so i think it will be a good one…, also like the fiber sights…
As long as the sights allow me to hit the aim point, im happy with them…
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the tritium are excellent for both day, night, and low light shooting, as a retired loe we had the 3 dot tritium on all our hand guns, there better now but back then the life of the tritium was 4-5years, as dept armorer i checked and changed them as needed. todays tritium seem some better and with different set ups, 3 dot, I dot, tritium front blacked out rear, U dot, and the list goes on
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I like tritium because I can find the dot at night. Fiber optic is better in lit areas. I believe I’ve used sights that have both. My current gun is just tridium, but it has an orange highlight painted on that’s easy to see in daylight.
Doesn’t matter too much though.
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Tritium.
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Happy anniversary, Will!
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Happy Anniversary
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