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seamusTX wrote:My house also has a very helpful "feature": The doors and floors creak. I can tell where Mrs. Casey is by the sounds.

A nightengale floor! An architectural technique originating in feudal Japan that purposefully created floorboards to flat-out chirp when they bore weight...ergo the nightengale part. The technique was called uguisubari. Seriously. Would I kid you?

The Marshal wrote:One thing about when you get the night sights. Then you to can joke with your friends that "I can't see what I am shooting, but I got it lined up!"

Yeppers. It's great to have glowing sights, but ya still need to see what's beyond the sights. And a good light can be both a deterrent and a weapon: if the bad guy's eyes are dark-adjusted, a flash of 65+ lumens in the ol' retina will temporarily blind him.

I also don't think weapon-mounted "tac" lights make much sense on civilians' handguns. On a shotgun or carbine, the story is a little different because it ain't easy to handle a flashlight in your off-hand while you rack a Remington 870.

But having a quality hand-held light is important. You can easily go over $300 for an excellent TIS (Tactical Illumination System, an acronym I rank right up there with TCTU: Tactical Caffeine Transfer Unit...or as some of us call it, a coffee mug ), but you can get good ones under $100. I'd start looking at Surefire and Streamlight brands.