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I can not afford night sights. However, I have a chance to get some "Ghost Glow paint" or "Bright Sight paint" for $5-6 for my G23...that I can spring for. I am not too concerned with how good it works - I'm mostly concerned that it if it will make my sights worst, especially in day light. Any and all feedback would be helpful.:dunno:
 
I've used several. Most of the "glow"paints need light to activate them. A gun in a holster doesn't get much light to keep them active.

The flourescent ones seem prettty good, to my eyes. Apply carefully and see how they work. They wear off after awhile, but can be reapplied fairly easily. The paint can be removed, if you are careful.

Pops
 
hmm

Where have you gotten your flourescent paints - I'm hearing fish lure paint, finger nail, hoppy or gun. And if you did need to remove it, paint thinner or remover I'm guess. G23 has white from factory
 
I get my flourescents from the hobbyshop. Testor's. ;) I have used some of the ones from the gun show, but I don't find them any better than the model paints. Get paints intended for use on metal models rather than plastics.

Removal has usually been accomplished by just scraping to break the surface gloss and then using a good gun oil and ScotchBrite.

I haven't used any for a number of years, and then only for a couple of years. I now have the sights with the plastic hi-viz inserts on my black powder rifles and have been working on point shooting with the hand guns for years. All of my "modern" rifles have big circles of glass on top. So ... I am, by no means, an expert on the subject.

Pops
 
I have used paints and I haven't been able to keep them bright after cleaning my gun a lot. I got a Friend that had a little drill bit to drill a hole where the white dot was and fill it with Silver Solder. You could do the same with Gold. It sure helps the visibility and you still have the original sight.
 
I've had good success with Birchwood Casey sight paints. Comes in a marker like container and the package has both white and orange. The white is the base coat and the orange is the top coat. Stays very bright and has a pretty good shelf life. The orange color won't wash out during outside shooting either.

Use painters tape on the area you don't want paint and use a fine brush to paint your sight. Simple as that.

Cost is around $9.
 
Model paint here as well, flourescent orange works great on the front sight of my 642. I applied it with the paper end of a match, if you don't want to invest in a tiny paintbrush.
 
+1 for the Birchwood Casey. I bought one green kit and one red kit. Use green on the back and red in the front. Almost as good as a set of FO sites in good light.

Easy enough to remove with a Q-tip dabbed in oven cleaner.
 
Tried white on the all-black front sight of a Taurus 85 .. it works well, gives you something to see to help line up black on black ... if the gun allows, I prefer to swap to a night sight ..
 
I mixed some two part epoxy with my paint of choice and applied it to my sights.I did that 20 years ago and it's as good today as the day I put it on.:cool:
 
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