Meprolight Night
Trust your life to a battery?
Now that I’m in my late fifties, I’ve found that my eyes aren’t what they were twenty years ago. I need prescription shooting glasses just to see the iron sights on my pistols.
For my defense gun, I’ve had Meprolight night sights installed, but it’s not always easy to align them without glasses.
I’ve been thinking about laser sights. The Crimson Trace laser sights (like the ones shown at http://www.gunshopfinder.com/crimson_trace_laser_grips.html ) seem like they’d be a good backup if I need to use my gun but don’t have my glasses on.
My concern is that I’ll come to depend upon a laser rather than the iron sights.
Has anyone used a laser sight consistently and, if so, how have you liked it? Have your shooting skills with iron sights been affected?
Shooting with iron sights is a skill that one must develop. Like any skill, it requires constant practice to maintian the skill at a high level. If you were to start using an alternative sighting system to the total exclusion of the irond sights, then you would slowly loose your edge with the iron sights. However, that is not the real question here. The real question is how to best make sure that you can stop the bad guy if it ever becomes necessary to do so. If your eyesight has reached the point that you no longer feel comfortable in relying on iron sights for your personal protection gun, then it is time for a change. Get the Crimson Trace Laser sights. Your main concern is your safety. After you have installed the laser sights, you can still use the iron sights to keep that skill sharp. If you ever have to face a bad guy in the dark, simply use to the laser sights. Often just putting that dot on the bad guy’s chest is enough to stop him and you don’t have to fire. If you do have to fire to protect yourself, you can tell exactly where the shot is going.
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