CS-9 Sights

[rsmithtesiusa]

Have a CS-9 that gets carried daily and the "dots" are worn off. I assume you can paint them back on? If so is there a special paint? Also interested in any aftermarket sights available for it - any suggestions there? As always thanks for any info.

 

[petepeterson]

All kidding aside, I've had good luck with white nail polish. I actually prefer flourescent orange or yellow. It's amazing how many colors of nail polish there are!

 

[IraIII]

There is available glowing paint "luminescent" similar to what H&K uses on the HK45's, just search for it. Nail polish is very common and popular for painting sight dots, and can be removed easily. I have purchased a set of sights for the M&P line, and while I have not installed it yet the front sight does in fact appear to be an exact match for my 4513's.
Here is a link to a thread that I saved that states that front sights from M&P's are the same as third gen front sights.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-...01425-sight-dovetail-compatability-specs.html

 

[gasaman]

I had Trijicon night sights installed on my CS9D about a year ago.

 

[brentb636]

I installed a Dawson Precision FO front sight on my CS9 with good results. The sight was listed as a SW 5906 sight at Dawson, but the same sight works for CS9, 5906, 3913, 5903 and 4006.

 

[Tbags]

I have an extra M&P full size front night sight, so I decided to give it a whack on my CS9. Old off, new one started on ok but then I noticed the issue. The front to back length of the m&p sight hangs over the dove tail base pad, unlike the stock cs9 sight. Due to radius of the slide it won't clear the slides hump and I don't think there is enough meat on the under side of the night sight to re-profile it to fit without getting darn close to the vial. Nice experiment, but ripe with fail as I just tapped the original back on.

May try filing the under side, but man that material doesn't take kindly to filing as it is something hard.

 

[Hill_Country]

May try filing the under side, but man that material doesn't take kindly to filing as it is something hard.

Yes, remove material from the flat (bottom) side of the sight. But hard doesn't begin to describe it. A belt sander works very well, but use at your own risk. No more than a split second on the belt then try it in the dovetail. I've always heard to shoot for about half way in to the dovetail before getting on it with a pusher. It is a very fine line between a hard push and a sloppy fit. (Loctight fixes a small amount of slop.)

 

[Tbags]

Yes, remove material from the flat (bottom) side of the sight. But hard doesn't begin to describe it. A belt sander works very well, but use at your own risk. No more than a split second on the belt then try it in the dovetail. I've always heard to shoot for about half way in to the dovetail before getting on it with a pusher. It is a very fine line between a hard push and a sloppy fit. (Loctight fixes a small amount of slop.)

Oh the issue isn't with the bottom of the dove tail base pad, but the actual sight rib where the night sight vial sits in as it extends beyond the base pad. The hump of the slide wont allow it to go on without being thinned out by trimming up from the bottom. After looking at it further it looks like there is enough meat there to be relieved but relieving it will be a tedious to say the least, but likely doable.

 

[Hill_Country]

Sorry, I wasn't clear on where you needed to file it down. That is some hard stuff.

 

[0849]

Sight Touch Up Paint

Last year I picked up a three pack of sight touch up paint at Cabellas. It is labelled Birchwood Casey Super Brite Touch Up, and is a pen type dispenser. I used the white touch up pen on my CS9 sights, front and rear, and it is holding up very well. It also came with a neon green and an orange color pens, have not used those colors yet, so cannot say how they look, but the white is perfect for sight dots, and easy to use.

 

[nvbirdman]

First thing to try is cleaning them up with alcohol and a q-tip. They do get dirty after a while.

 

[Tbags]

Finally got around to do some diamond file work on the M&P nite-sight I had laying around. Came out pretty good, proof will be in the shooting as I suspect it may shoot a touch low as the sight post is a bit taller than the stock one. But reality is that it wouldn't matter much in an up close and personal situation.