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ArmyGuy45 · 10-19-2007, 07:13 AM

when using iron sights.. do you have a problem with the black sights on a black target.. have you tried to put white out on the post so you can tell where the end of the post is?
i dont want to do it on a range ... ( they are all going to laugh at me )
that and if i bo-low cause of the "new" site.. ( once again more laughing )
would it help? has anyone tried this?

ichy_trigger · 10-19-2007, 07:15 AM

I bought some day-glo orange testors model paint and painted the tip on my front sight. It works great!

zac07 · 10-19-2007, 07:22 AM

I would with an brighter color like orange/yelow so dont have that problem while shooting at white targets

zac07 · 10-19-2007, 07:23 AM

who cares if they laugh whatever makes you a better shooter, it will probably catch on and everyone will do it.

Krackels · 10-19-2007, 07:26 AM

not too much as long as I'm focusing on the front sight.

ArmyGuy45 · 10-19-2007, 09:27 PM

thx 4 all the advice

retired · 10-20-2007, 12:36 AM

I had to use the orange day glo stuff also on all of my handguns. I replaced my Heinie Pro Slant Straight 8 (or whatever order that is supposed to be in

) with Tru Glo TFOs on my SC9 and now have the best of all worlds.

I bought the Ruger MK III Hunter with the FO sights for the same reason, but they don't light up as much as the TFOs. I didn't have any problem when shooting it at the gun fair prior to buying it, but I do now.

I now wish I had bought one of their shorter barrel blued models and just put on a red dot like Rudy did on his Buckmark. Expensive lesson learned.

I can't afford the TFOs on all of my other handguns or I'd buy them. Sucks getting older.

jeepinbanditrider · 10-20-2007, 12:52 AM

Last time on the range me and another guy from my shop had a hot pink paint pen. We painted our front sight posts with that and shot great even at 500 yards where the front sight post is as wide as the target.

bigun · 10-20-2007, 02:35 PM

Smoke your sights with a match and it will lighten them up enough for contrast on darker targets.

**einheit 13** · 10-20-2007, 04:58 PM

http://www.mountsplus.com/thestore/p...S-050-UMB.html

10-19-2007, 07:13 AM	#1
ArmyGuy45 XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Mesa,AZ / Ft Carson, CO Posts: 3,496	4 my 16/15 shooters when using iron sights.. do you have a problem with the black sights on a black target.. have you tried to put white out on the post so you can tell where the end of the post is? i dont want to do it on a range ... ( they are all going to laugh at me ) that and if i bo-low cause of the "new" site.. ( once again more laughing ) would it help? has anyone tried this? __________________ US Army 2005 - Present XD45 Compact - My Carry Suresights Springer Precision Trigger Kit/Bar ( needs install ) NRA Life Member Myspace "One Country, One Culture, One Language!" - Thomas Paine

10-19-2007, 07:15 AM	#2
ichy_trigger XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Dayton, Ohio Posts: 8,085	I bought some day-glo orange testors model paint and painted the tip on my front sight. It works great! __________________ "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member2645.png

10-19-2007, 07:26 AM	#5
Krackels XDTalk 15K Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Southeastern PA Posts: 19,588 Blog Entries: 5	not too much as long as I'm focusing on the front sight. __________________ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." --Benjamin Franklin PA Roll Call

10-19-2007, 09:27 PM	#6
ArmyGuy45 XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Mesa,AZ / Ft Carson, CO Posts: 3,496	thx 4 all the advice __________________ US Army 2005 - Present XD45 Compact - My Carry Suresights Springer Precision Trigger Kit/Bar ( needs install ) NRA Life Member Myspace "One Country, One Culture, One Language!" - Thomas Paine

10-20-2007, 12:36 AM	#7
retired XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: S. Calif. Posts: 5,572	I had to use the orange day glo stuff also on all of my handguns. I replaced my Heinie Pro Slant Straight 8 (or whatever order that is supposed to be in) with Tru Glo TFOs on my SC9 and now have the best of all worlds. I bought the Ruger MK III Hunter with the FO sights for the same reason, but they don't light up as much as the TFOs. I didn't have any problem when shooting it at the gun fair prior to buying it, but I do now. I now wish I had bought one of their shorter barrel blued models and just put on a red dot like Rudy did on his Buckmark. Expensive lesson learned. I can't afford the TFOs on all of my other handguns or I'd buy them. Sucks getting older.

10-19-2007, 07:22 AM	#3
zac07 XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: West Texas Posts: 1,119	I would with an brighter color like orange/yelow so dont have that problem while shooting at white targets

10-19-2007, 07:23 AM	#4
zac07 XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: West Texas Posts: 1,119	who cares if they laugh whatever makes you a better shooter, it will probably catch on and everyone will do it.

10-20-2007, 12:52 AM	#8
jeepinbanditrider XDTalk 4K Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Mineral Wells, Tx Posts: 4,855	Last time on the range me and another guy from my shop had a hot pink paint pen. We painted our front sight posts with that and shot great even at 500 yards where the front sight post is as wide as the target. __________________ Stuff USPSA-A59201

10-20-2007, 02:35 PM	#9
bigun XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Southern Iowa Posts: 3,075	Smoke your sights with a match and it will lighten them up enough for contrast on darker targets. __________________ The second ammendment is the ammendment that protects all of the others.

10-20-2007, 04:58 PM	#10
einheit 13 XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Virginia, C.S.A. Posts: 5,905	http://www.mountsplus.com/thestore/p...S-050-UMB.html __________________ Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time is enemy action “It is the lack of will power, and not the lack of arms which render us incapable of offering any serious resistance.”

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