Painting sights for easier pick up?

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My dad has come to realize that he can't pick up his iron sights on his .44 mag as easily as he used to, atleast not in a hurried shot situation. He's tried my red dot and loves it, but it looks like we won't have time to get the proper rail for his gun to put one on before out trip. Has anyone tried using any kind of flourescent paint on the front and rear sights to help him out? Kind of a redneck truglo? (I understand truglo gather light, where as the paint will not)

Thanks everyone.
 
Try El Cheapo brand fingernail polish. Many many colors and a lifetime supply in every bottle.
 
Use red sparkle nail polish. I find it catches the light a lot better than other colours. If the front sight is hooded though you'll want to make sure that it has light ports as it needs direct light to really shine.

If you screw up painting just use some nail polish remover. ;)

P.S. Clean the sight with alcohol first to remove all oil and use an undercoating of white nail polish with the red sparkle on top. Almost looks like a fiber optic with direct light.

P.P.S. Blood red sparkle. Orange isn't too bad either but with the white undercoating the deep red gives better colour.
 
Try jig head paint, you can buy it at any hunting/fishing supply shop, and it comes in many colors, its what i use on a couple of my irons!
 
i've used fingernail polish and also jighead paint and even whiteout the whiteout surprizing enough did'nt chip off as easy as i though it would and was easy to see i now have a truglo front sight with williams peep on the rear works well
 
If you're going to use a florescent paint for your sights, this will make a big difference for you...
...once you degrease the metal sights...put a coat of white on it first, and let it dry good...THEN put on your florescent paint...it'll glow much better with the white base coat underneath.
 
Degrease the front sight and than using white enamel paint. Hold the gun with the muzzle pointing down and then take a tooth pick and just dip the end in the paint then just touch it to the center of the bead that will leave a little drop on the sight and it really picks up light. Now for the back sight, take three or four paper matches and hold the gun with the barrel pointing up and then light the matches all at once and smoke the back sight when they first light.

Keep a little bottle of white out in your pocket and just use a little twig in case you rub the white off the front sight and keep a pack of matches in your pocket to do the back sight any time it starts to glare again.

I have used many different paint colours and I have found nothing shows up better in low light than the white on the flat black rear sight. I find that the flourescent paints just look black the first and last 5 -10 minutes of legal shooting on dull days.
 
This stuff is awsome, very bright and visible and it wont go away, it is a pencil to write on steel beam...JP.
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I was thinking of trying those paint pens. Then I thought, maybe i'll just practice until aiming is muscle memory and I don't need the sights. I used to shoot my old remington model 12 so much that when the sight elevator fell out, i didn't notice. Apparently i was using my eye as the rear sight.
 
When I had issued revolvers, we used Tamiya Paint Pens. Worked well and cost effective, like most examples offered here.
 
When i was first learning to shoot. We used white out on a remington .22. It worked great and is still on there 18 yrs later. Of course I have touched it up a couple of times. A lot of people have shot that .22 and some with very poor eye sight and were still commenting on how accurate they could shoot with it.
 
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