Night Sights

A couple things to remember with night sights are as follows:
1) You need to practice at night with your night sights to determine how well you can shoot with them. Many shooters have the attitude that with tritium sights on their pistol they are ready to go for night fighting. Not quite. I have seen many shooters who struggle shooting at night with tritium sights. Two factors that are often overlooked are having to shift focus from the target to the sights with the resulting loss of target definition and eyesight limitations at night. Both of these can lead to bad hits and complete misses at night.

2) During the day completely ignore the night sights and use them as standard black pistol sights. The reason is very rarely do the dots correspond with a traditional sight picture of standard pistol sights. What can happen under stress is a shooter lines up the dots and not the iron sights meaning they will have shots grouping low, high, left or right depending on how the tritium sights line up in contrast to the standard sights. Remember night sights are for low light conditions; ignore them in good lighting.
Tritium night sights are like any other accessory attached or installed on your weapon with distinct pros and cons. I feel the pros greatly outweigh the cons but as always failure to understand the cons of night sights can come back to bite you when you least expect it.