Anybody Use BrightSight Paint?

[NoJacketRequired]

OK, here goes... My Traditions Hawken sights have a tendancy to "disappear" in low light conditions, which happens to be just about the only time we see deer moving within shootin' range. I'd like to brighten up my sights and make'em "glow" so I can see them in low light. I ran across "Bright Sights Ghost Glow Kit" at Brownells. Does anybody use this stuff? How well or poorly does it work? I'm thinkin' this would be a whole lot easier and cheaper than installing fibre-optic sights (the ones Traditions sells for this rifle require gunsmithing to install, or so said the fellow I talked to at Traditions customer support).

As always, your help on this topic is greatly appreciated.

 

[Flintshooter in Indiana]

Get yourself some White-out. You know, the liquid paper stuff and try that. Just dab it on the front part of the sight. That should do the trick.

 

[NoJacketRequired]

Thanks, Flintshooter. I tried this a few years ago on my shotgun (yeah, the Mossberg slug barrel sights were terribly hard to see). It worked a charm at the range bit didn't stick on during the crappy weather we have here during deer season. Seems like moisture made it soften up and literally fall off. I'm hoping to find something that will withstand rain, snow, heat, cold, and still glow in the dark. Hmmm, maybe I should talk to Homer Simpson about that glow-in-the-dark stuf... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Zonie]

If you have access to a Hobby Shop of some kind, you will find that Testers (and a few others) make fluorescent enamel paint. It comes in a little square bottle.

It won't glow in the dark, but either the orange or yellow/green will stand out like a sore thumb against the background.
I apply it with a tooth pick. That way I don't even have to wash a brush.

It doesn't cost much (although it is sure a lot higher priced than the 25 cents it cost when I was a kid building plastic models), it is an enamel so it is waterproof, it can be scraped off if you want to remove it and one bottle has enough to last you about 225 years worth of sight painting.

I have used this on my High Standard "Trophy" with excellent results.

 

[buckknife]

Yea thats what i use,can find it by the modlel cars in walmart.When ya cant see the front sight no more ya have to do sumin.I just use plain old white,seems to glow in the dark woods best fer me.

 

[roundball]

I found white the best here in the dark woods of Carolina because it's so rare that we have any snow, the white bead stand out against the fall green, orange, red, yellow, and the winter gray, brown, black, etc.
To keep it from being rubbed off the bead by handling or walking through the woods, I take a small drill bit and slightly dish out the face of the bead, then dab the white paint in there and it's protected

 

[NoJacketRequired]

Zone, RB, et al,

Thanks for the good ideas. Testers paint is indeed much cheaper than the BrightSight stuff (25 bucks - yikes!) Looks like I'm off to WallyWorld for some model paint. My boys will love me as they've been after me for a while to help them paint some models... ;-)

 

[No Powder]

Finger nail polish work well also, and with what the young gals think is in fashion now a days you can find almost any color and even fluorescent.

 

[shooter575]

That model paint also comes in a magic marker type pen too.Easy to throw in your shooting box. I like the orange color.

Jim

 

[shmrck1]

I have used the bright site on my .50 hawken and works fine
for me the other suggestions look like they would work just
as well.
I am snake-eyes