painting the front sight ?

I have on my Blackhawk and Mini 14, both have a black ramp front sight which my eyes always found difficult to acquire. Used Tester's paint (for models cars and the like) in either bright orange/red/green or white.

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Past posts will help you !!

rebs
You are really missing out, if you don't do a historical search on this subject. There have been literally hundreds of posts about painting sights. .... ;)

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On guns with plain black front sights, I usually paint them with red fingernail polish (if you mess up, a dab of fingernail polish remover or brake parts cleaner will remove it). My dad does the same thing except he uses white rather than red because white is easier for his older eyes to pick up quickly.
 
Yellow shows up better as the light dims and doesn't glare fiercely in sunlight when the sun is off to your side. Whatever you pick paint a coat of white on first. Use a really small brush and hold your mouth JUST RIGHT!
 
My summertime color was some gawd-awful orange-red fingernail polish I picked up a the Dollar Store on sale. I had my ladies apply it as they are much better at that sort of thing than am I.

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Next spring I'll pick up another bottle of cheap polish and we'll do it all again. One application lasts about a year.
 
Orange model paint, nail polish or sight paint will all work. I used Birchwood Casey sight paint, used some blue painters tape to keep the paint where I wanted it and had at it.

The results were good and it has worn well.
 
Yellow

Shooters:
Well, I did that on one of my rifles, but this is the hand gun forum so . . .

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'White Out' in my range bag if I need to add something while on the range but depending on where I usually shoot them I have my hand guns in either a clear green or a clear orange over a white base. I prefer a florescent chartreuse or a florescent safety orange as the two colors that stand out best against my usual shooting background but I haven't been able to find them since I moved. I used to use those colors on my fishing lures and sights many moons ago.
 
I have used fishing lure paint, fluorescent neon green works well on the front sight. I like the fluorescent as there in a slight grow in dim light.
 
I've bought a couple used that had been painted. I also have a couple with nickel sights that I spray with Sight Black so I can see the sights. Easily removable.
 
On my stainless handguns I spray the front sight with flat black...over-spray hurts nothing. I mainly shoot steel targets painted flat white, so the flat black contrasts well. When I used to deer hunt a few years ago, I used white "Testors" brand model paint. I discovered that most of the deer would show up about dusk, a dark front sight would not show up against a dark deer, even if there was snow on the ground. Sounds strange...white paint on sights for deer in the white snow, but it worked.
Also, I discovered that spray sight black would rub off in the holster...spray paint did not.
 
Like Old Grump, we applied White Out on ours. We wanted them more visible under dim light conditions. Nowadays we have tritium sights.
 
Painting the front sights

It is out of Marc Chagall. A friend paints guns of all kinds. I told him I like Chagall but the direction and colors were his to do whatever he wanted except NO PINK! The pistol fires just like when it was new but gets a few stares and comments at the range.

paul
 
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