I carry the chargers. I do not carry a WML. I do carry a good flashlight. I have practiced low light draw/step SHO+flashlight drills but not as much as I should and I'm not especially fast nor accurate this way. In the safe, my G17 runs with an x300. I've tested it, but not as much as I should.
I do almost all of my shooting indoors with an illuminated target, and most of the rest of it happens outdoors well lit. I am fortunate that I haven't had to rely on tritium. I have done some low light sight experiments in the past. I don't think chargers are "killed in the streets" bad for my circumstances, but I feel my lack of tritium is definitely a notable disadvantage. I do not have the experience to truly understand first hand just how much of a disadvantage.
I take the opinions of Gio and SLG very seriously, and I think it's a serious clue that they both advocate for tritium on their work guns. A number of experienced others, e.g. Chuck and Darryl, have said very similar things. There is also some great testimony from low light simunitions from Todd or TC or someone from way back. The experienced folks who tend to be in the no-tritium camp are almost universally SOF. There's a whole lot that makes their situation different from mine, and I tend to find the LEO experience more relevant to my concerns. A notable exception here is Tom Givens's testimony, and my understanding is that his is more of a "don't spend the money" argument than a blanket "no tritium" one but someone can correct me if I'm wrong. My reasoning for not loosing sleep with chargers in my holster is similar to his, and Gabe's, and definitely is helped by their testimony, but I'm under no delusion that this issue is irrelevant to me or that I've prioritized correctly.
At the time that I switched to chargers, I was still in a phase where I felt an urge to explore the options more and I also desperately needed to spend less time thinking about sights and more time thinking about shooting. The chargers let me do that. There was a very noticeably "natural" or "disappearing", maybe "effortless" quality to them, and I haven't felt a need to switch. I expect that my current preference in tritium sights would be whatever gets me closest to those target sight traits I mentioned in my last post: something like charger tritium sights, or Heinies, or Warren Sevigny. When I eventually get a Gen 5, my intention is to get it with the Ameriglo factory option and try to just roll with that. I like to think that I'm now at the point where the details of the sights don't really matter much to me, but I don't know, I really haven't tested that claim. I've written elsewhere about something I call "sight preference hysteresis" which I still think is somewhat relevant.
I emphatically do NOT want to spark a tritium, no tritium, fiber, flashlight, WML (, laser!
) debate here. We've had it over and over again and I doubt there's much new to learn from it, but I don't want to give the wrong impression about my feelings.