A while back I reviewed the Smith & Wesson M&P 40 and on the third or fourth shot, managed to shatter the round, plastic insert in the front sight. Total fluke, I’m sure, and it didn’t really bother me mostly because it was a bright day anyway so the black post was easy enough to see and I had seen plenty of things on the Interweb Tubes that illustrated how to fill in the front post with paints.
I made it to a craft store last Friday and took a good 30 minutes to find the Tester’s paints. They didn’t have anything fluorescent, but the yellow looked bright enough. After standing in line to checkout for another 20 minutes, I realized I had left my wallet at home and had to put it back (turns out, “Good Looks” aren’t an acceptable payment medium). Today I was at a friend’s house and brought up my story and he said he had painted his sights with a fluorescent fabric paint and that they had held up wonderfully. He let me borrow it and I decided to blog the experience
I had an unbent paperclip I used to get some of the looser pieces of plastic out. I had a needle to scrape out the tiny bits as well. Then, I cleaned the area with some rubbing alcohol & a Q-Tip to make sure everything could bind well. The nozzle for the Tulip Slick glue was microscopic in size, and it was pretty easy to lay a very, very small bead in the divot where the plastic insert had originally been.
A quick wipe with a patch and a little prodding with a toothpick and the dot looked perfect.
Can’t wait to hit the range a few more times to see how it holds up. My buddy has his on his rifles and they looked brand new from when I took a gander at them, so hopefully this will hold up for a while too. And if not? That’s like $1.50 worth of paint and could do thousands of sights.