to a scope, "folding' sights, be my guest.I want a PROTECTED set of luminous iron sights, and a QD,return to zero scope base. You can HAVE your battery dependent,fragile electronic sights and scopes for shtf. A scope, as an auxiliary, specialized sighting system, ok, but as the MAIN sight, never. A fragile, exposed iron rear sight, on a flip up mechanism,not me, thanks just the same. For a specific "mission", TODAY, sure,maybe the electronic sight would get the nod, as long as the removable carrying handle, and its sight, are ALONG as back up. I aint bothering with such for shtf, tho.
U wanna be without luminous sights,TRUST
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I've blown out several tritiums, including 3 sets of 'protected' tritiums just on an HK91. They are a tad more fragile than people think.
My experience is that that a compact, 1x combat optic is more rugged than tritiums. They are also useful in the day, unlike tritiums. Tritiums can also illuminate you in an opponent's starlight scope.
The ARMS flip up iron sight is pretty tough. You break one of those and you've accomplished something. You've probably also broken something else major on the weapon. The DPMS rear sight is simply the stock A2 sight, rail mountable, without the carry handle.
A combat optic is seriously faster than irons and the batteries last a long time. In a crisis, the edge they give you is probably more than any other add on gadget you can fancy up your primary weapon with.
Do I have a set of tritiums for the AR? Yes I do, I have a set of Trijicon's. They are in the buttstock with the other spare parts.
My experience is that that a compact, 1x combat optic is more rugged than tritiums. They are also useful in the day, unlike tritiums. Tritiums can also illuminate you in an opponent's starlight scope.
The ARMS flip up iron sight is pretty tough. You break one of those and you've accomplished something. You've probably also broken something else major on the weapon. The DPMS rear sight is simply the stock A2 sight, rail mountable, without the carry handle.
A combat optic is seriously faster than irons and the batteries last a long time. In a crisis, the edge they give you is probably more than any other add on gadget you can fancy up your primary weapon with.
Do I have a set of tritiums for the AR? Yes I do, I have a set of Trijicon's. They are in the buttstock with the other spare parts.
Years ago, I had a pistol with tritium sights. Whenever I CCW'd it at night, those sights would glow right through my shirt.
Here's fun experiment:
Take an unloaded, tritium sighted pistol into a room with a mirror, but no windows. Turn out the lights and let your eyes adjust to the darkness. Point the pistol at the mirror and notice how it lights you up.
It gives you that, "Hey, shoot me first!" glow.
Here's fun experiment:
Take an unloaded, tritium sighted pistol into a room with a mirror, but no windows. Turn out the lights and let your eyes adjust to the darkness. Point the pistol at the mirror and notice how it lights you up.
It gives you that, "Hey, shoot me first!" glow.
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