Florescent Paint For Front Sight???

[oddshooter]

The bright White base is a requirement to get other colors to POP.
The Clear on top gives the top color a shine and protects it.

I like triple orange. I also like a white outline on the back sight.


This nail polish technique is particularly useful when you have a gun shooting high or low. You can decide what part of the front post to paint, the top half or the bottom half. When aiming, that will bring that nose either up or down.

I'm 72 and can't see black front sight on black back sight on a black target. They all just look like a black glob. That orange Nail polish has kept me shooting.

I could have spent thousands on new Bowen sights for lots of my toys, but I'm still on my first bottles of nail polish, $10.


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[Jalopiejoe]

I used Testor's Orange over a white base coat applied with a toothpick on my 617!

 

[JohnRippert]

I use yellow on mine. With a base coat of white underneath.

 

[adwjc]

Sight Paint

I have a set of the Birchwood Casey pens, one white, one orange. They do a fabulous job. They are like a felt tip marker, but the tips are a little harder and beveled.

I just looked and saw that they are now sold in a 3 pc set, "Birchwood Casey Super Bright Touch-Up Sight Pens Neon Green and Red." They are in stock and the parts retailer whose biz is named after the famous WWII Naval Battle.

The color that they call red looks orange to me.

 

[Delta Rose]

I use Testor's fluorescent orange applied with a toothpick and coated with clear nail polish. Sorry for the fuzzy pictures.

 

[wood714]

One coat of white nail polish then 2 coats of green.

Works perfect.

 

[bananaman]

Testors works well, even though have used others. On the front sight put white on it first, color on it after, which makes it brighter looking. Have it on my 28 no dash that I bought in 2009. Never had to do it since! Bob

 

[C Islander]

Testors works well, even though have used others. On the front sight put white on it first, color on it after, which makes it brighter looking. Have it on my 28 no dash that I bought in 2009. Never had to do it since! Bob

Especially pink right....