I mentioned a few posts back that I have a glow-in-the-dark (which I am just gonna simplify to ‘glowie’) tray that I keep my bedside gun on so I can find it in the dark. It’s a fairly simple thing…you have the lights on in the bedroom and when you turn off the light to go to bed, the glowie tray has absorbed enough light to glow gently through the night. As you know, most glowie stuff loses its brightness as the night wears on…thats fine because as the night goes on your night vision becomes better. As a result, a faintly glowing object is plenty bright to your just-woke-up-at-3am eyes. TPIWWP, so:
I got mine from the always interesting CountyComm website. I’ve been quite tickled with it and find it to be an excellent way to keep my important bump-in-the-night stuff in one place where I can find it easily.
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Stay very subtly glowing while doing that blue hive dwelling stuff, so as to stay frosty.
Very nice. Be a good thing for having a few of those scattered in house. In the restroom so you have just enough light to go to toilet to do your business. Or as a light source for going outside without need of destroying precious night vision. A lot of possibilities. Thanks for the photo of it.
That would probably keep me awake. I just look to the right, & I can see 3 dots, so I know where my pistol is.
I’ve had a similar product from UV PaqLite 10 years (or longer?) I laso have a bunch of their other products attached to various equipment I might need to find in the dark. Not associated, just a satisfied customer.
https://www.uvpaqlite.com
You do you, but my bedside handgun is an FN 509 tactical with Streamlight TLR-1 and AAC TiRant 9 suppressor. Let me be the first to say I’ve heard all the arguments for and against using a suppressor in a defensive situation. I would rather keep what’s left of my hearing plus my situational awareness. I know you have just made the dive into the suppressor world but if you’re not going to use it for defense what good is it. JMO,YMMV 😉
Quiet practice?
Introducing newbs?
Pest control?
Fun?
Devil’s advocating here, doesn’t that go against the advice of having ‘muscle memory’? If I’m expecting a glowing tray, my mind stutters long enough to locate and use it. However, if my stuff is always in the same place…no hesitation.
What if the tray is in the place where you normally leave your stuff?
My bedroom is so dark in the winter that I took glow-in-the-dark Planetary stickers from the Dollar Store and put one (6″ Saturn image) over the a joining bathroom door, above the trim. I put one under the door knob 2″ star to the bathroom, same for the hall door. Why? Well, one dark and moonless night I was heading to the biffy, half asleep and did not notice the door had swung partially shut. I slammed my extended middle finger into solid door edge and spent quite few minutes trying not to cry. I succeeded, but the next morning I thought I need some visual cues as to where things were in the dark. That problem has disappeared. They are not intrusive and no one even notices them. I tried glow-in-the-dark paint. meh.