Lipsey's & Lonestar Magic

[aware]

What paint did you use to make that sight more visible?

[sixshot]

I get the paint at Walmart in the hobby/crafts section. You can buy the pens in different colors or the little plastic bottles, I use both. The number one thing you want to do is paint it white first, this will make your second color really stand out. If you don't use the white the top color will appear dark, almost black sometimes. The amount of front sight you color is trial & error & as David Bradshaw mentions is loaded related. I like to be zeroed about dead on at 50 yds with iron sights and on again about 100 yds with the BOTTOM of the paint holding at 6 o'clock, that way you can see your intended target/animal.
I'm not zeroed yet but close but as you can see it doesn't take much paint. Again, this is trial & error but it's fun & you can do some amazing long range work just by changing the paint (make it longer) especially if you get 2 shots!
A few years ago James From Jersey was visiting me & we were doing some river shooting in the canyon. He replied that he had never did any long range shooting until that day. But, he was an experienced shooter & within less than a cylinder full of ammo we were out to 300 yds & hitting rocks in the river & he was bouncing up & down like a ping pong ball he was so excited! We do it often out to 600 yds or more.
Several of you reading this could do the same thing I'm sure.

Dick

[ddixie884]

Congrats and good luck..........

[aware]

Dec 13, 2021 18:04:31 GMT -5 sixshot said:

I get the paint at Walmart in the hobby/crafts section. You can buy the pens in different colors or the little plastic bottles, I use both. The number one thing you want to do is paint it white first, this will make your second color really stand out. If you don't use the white the top color will appear dark, almost black sometimes. The amount of front sight you color is trial & error & as David Bradshaw mentions is loaded related. I like to be zeroed about dead on at 50 yds with iron sights and on again about 100 yds with the BOTTOM of the paint holding at 6 o'clock, that way you can see your intended target/animal.
I'm not zeroed yet but close but as you can see it doesn't take much paint. Again, this is trial & error but it's fun & you can do some amazing long range work just by changing the paint (make it longer) especially if you get 2 shots!
A few years ago James From Jersey was visiting me & we were doing some river shooting in the canyon. He replied that he had never did any long range shooting until that day. But, he was an experienced shooter & within less than a cylinder full of ammo we were out to 300 yds & hitting rocks in the river & he was bouncing up & down like a ping pong ball he was so excited! We do it often out to 600 yds or more.
Several of you reading this could do the same thing I'm sure.

Dick

Thank you.  I have used white automotive touch-up paint in the past and it has worked well, but really liked your orange.

[bradshaw]

Paint in a can or bottle contains more pigment than any aerosol. Some colors are more OPAQUE than others. White, particularly titanium white, has a high load of mineral pigment load and reflects light. Certain yellows share this ability to refract light.

Most reds absorb light, thus appear to darken as light fades, or when the paint is applied to a dark surface. Thus, as Dick Thompson undercoats with white, the red or orange overcoat reflects more light to amplify visibility in the mottled light of forest and mountain hunting.
David Bradshaw

[KRal]

Dick, that’s a dandy! Hope you get your elk with that beauty. That’ll be the perfect christening.

[rjm52]

That is just beyond words Dick...was thinking I wish they made one in .41 and remembered my Reeder is the exact same gun...

Hope you FILL THAT TAG!!!!

Bob