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Posted: 7/29/2007 7:49:36 PM EDT
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I've heard a lot about tritium sights and optics lately. I've also heard that tritium loses all it's luminosity after a 3 or 4 years. My thought is, why spend tons of money buying tritium sights/optics if they won't last you a long time? (at least, not my definition of "a long time") Please explain this phenomenon to me. Make me a believer or something. 
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From personal experience: -Trijicon tritium AR15 iron sights; purchased around '95; pretty dim -Trijicon tritium Glock iron sights; purchased last year; yeah, they better still be workin'! -Trijicon ACOG TA01; purchased around '97; still working good -Elcan optic sight; purchased around '01; was dim when first purchased and even worse now, but useable -Trijicon Reflex; purchased around '01; still working good All of these were presumably new manufacture at time of purchase. They most certainly do not lose their luminosity after only four years. |
I have heard that Trijicon will not service the tritium in the Reflex's. If that is the case, I'm going to be quite the unhappy customer. The Reflex would be just about worthless without it. Seeing as how I've only used it a handful of times in the past six years, I certainly haven't gotten my money's worth from it yet. Perhaps I'll give them a call to verify that rumor... One thing I do know is that I cannot get my Elcan serviced. Not even Raytheon has a license to import them from the manufacturer. Since I had to sell a kidney to get it, I'm not too happy about this situation. DSA (whom I purchased it from) are unable to take care of it, either. They no longer sell the tritium illuminated model. "Good day GySgt D******, I apologize for our late response, however we do have an issue replacing the tritium source as our facility is in Canada. There would be no problem for you to send it to us, or even for us to repair it. The problem is that ELCAN does not have a US tritium import license, meaning we could not ship it back to you. As it is, all of our sights we export directly to the US have non-tritium illumination. If you have purchased this sight from a distributor, I would direct you back to them as they may have a license or have used a wholesaler with a license to import into the US. Please contact me if you have any questions or comments. Regards, Ted Milner. 705-526-5401 ext 542" |
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