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06-26-2019, 5:53pm | #1 | ||||||
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Gun Related: What's the Best Way to Recolor a Pistol Sight?
Nail polish? Hobby shop enamel paint? Luminescent paint?
And what's the best way to prep and apply it to the sights without making a huge mess? What color? White? Yellow? Green? Red? |
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Looks like these were night sights?
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Hard to tell from your picture if they were night sights or if the paint just faded.
Night sites have a life expectancy Quote:
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Best way is to get a new set of Trijicon night sights for it and install them. I have the same gun and have replaced the sights before. The tritium lasts a little over 12 years.
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Tritium sights are great for night and I love fiber optic for daytime.
I've found the Rustoleum Industrial Choice flourescent orange a great sight marker. I put it on some of my old Winchester 1890 rifles and it's great! |
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I'm going to fight convention a bit and suggest you go with a basic flat black overall.
For me colored dots or contrasting front sights are distracting in any light except near darkness. The beauty of night sights is the inserts are generally not visible until there's insufficient light to focus on the front sight effectively. |
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I may go ahead and order some night sights for it, but I'd like to try a cheap fix first. How do I get that paint cleanly in the little holes? The toothpick application method? Spray it into a cup until I get a volume of liquid a toothpick will pick up? Quote:
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I just spray it in a bottle cap and use a toothpick if there is a dimple on the back of the sight or a
SMALL flat screwdriver if the back of the sight blade is flat. A Q-tip is fine if you mess it up and then just start over. |
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I've used testors model paint with good results...YMMV. Range guns though.
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