Gear Review: Night Fision Sights Illuminate Glock 17

By Sean Curtis

Leveraging decades of experience with tritium, Night Fision boldly enters the gun market. (Photo: Sean Curtis)
Night sights are one of the best upgrades on a pistol and with a cornucopia of choice available in today’s market, many companies offer products in this category. A recent newcomer, called Night Fision, stepped onto the scene to shake things up a bit.
In 2017 the company came to market with some new products and different approaches to a somewhat staid market. It turns out Night Fisions’s origins are tied to another company that has a great deal of experience with making things glow in the dark—Cammenga.
You can see the intended design of the “Accur8” here. (Photo: Sean Curtis)
Many with experience in land navigation — military especially– know the proven quality of the Cammenga compass providing lensatic compasses to the U.S. Army for decades. In addition, the company boasts over 25 years of working with the magical component that makes things glow, tritium.
Remember glow in the dark Silly Putty? If you shined a bright light on the weird goop, it would glow brightly for a while before it faded. Tritium, a radioactive gas, is different in that it needs no external source to charge or

Source: Guns.com