OK, see...that's the really spooky part.
These work GREAT in low light, so long as there's at least some light on the target. The sights themselves are set up to be always darker than the target if there's at least enough light for target ID - either ambient light or off of your tactical light.
It doesn't feel like it if you try them on your own dry-firing. To test this, you have to be in low-light conditions and either really shoot at targets, OR point your gun at the target in what you think the direction is, and then have a friend hit the target with a strong flashlight so you can confirm that a real sight alignment happened.
See...something weird is going on here. Go here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...4191857056612#
Watch the first section of this documentary on "blindsight". We have two visual processing centers in our heads. One is the slow, conscious "mammalian" visual processing center that can read, see in color, identify faces, etc.
There's also a much older and more primitive "reptilian" visual processing center still present. It can only see in black and white, it works very well in low-light conditions and it can only see things in motion as opposed to standing still. This is why a cobra waves it's head back and forth before it strikes - it's using the trick of putting it's own head in motion to simulate having the target move against the background.
The primitive visual processing system is wired straight up to our motor control centers. It's what we use to dodge an incoming rock or baseball or whatever.
The Hexsite is set up optimal for use by the reptilian visual processor. That's why you have a sense of it "auto tracking" on whatever you look at - you're using the reptilian vision system's straight-shot wiring to your motor control system to "auto track" the gun without having to deliberately think about it.
You leave the trigger under conscious control, no problem!
In low-light conditions, it works even though your conscious mind says it can't possibly work - because your mammalian visual processor needs more light to see colors. Colors in a sight actually screw up your ability to use the reptilian visual processing system, which is why, once you're used to a Hexsite, you won't ever want to deal with a red dot sight...because the red part of the sight actually gets in the way and breaks that auto-tracking ability.
Using both your visual processing systems at once, you get way WAY faster. You can shoot at an identified target without first shortening up your focus to the front sight - and then if conditions at the target change, you can track the changes without altering your eye's focus.
People have been shot for pulling out a cellphone when a cop has 'em at gunpoint. That's because the cop already has his focus shortened up to the front sight and doesn't want to take the time to focus long (on the target) and then back short. With a Hexsite this problem vanishes. You can track exactly what the target is doing at the time you shoot. It's quite literally a more moral system.
Because you're doing target-focus, keeping both eyes open is easy and natural. So the relatively large size of my sight (bigger than a real Hexsite) doesn't mean it "gets in the way" of my downrange view.
As God is my witness, this is a total and absolute breakthrough.