ErikW Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 At today's match I saw this gun: orange front blade outlined in blue, rear sight outlined in blue. (Chevy blue, not gun blue.) At other matches I've seen combinations of patterns and colors, including a vertical bar on the rear, and a horizontal bar on the rear. Stop the insanity! It seems people are willing to have their sights look like the Partridge Family bus in search of speed and accuracy, which they are not acheiving. Learn to shoot a plain black rear sight with a plain black or fiber optic front. Everything else is just going to hold you back. If you can't "pick up the front sight" you need to work on things like your grip, natural point of aim, and recoil control. I've never seen any pattern-painted sights on the gun of a shooter the equivalent of USPSA B class or above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRe Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 Dude, come on. Don't you know that everyone has to re-invent the wheel for themselves??? We need a new show hosted by Jim Scouten - "Pimp My Blaster".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 What Xre said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loves2Shoot Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 Amen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 I like the Henry Ford school of thought on iron sights. You can have any colors you want as long as they are black on black ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehli Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 You're just mad 'cause you have no fashion sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Anderson Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 Eirk's just upset because he can't keep a set of sights on his gun. Erik, so you know, when most people put sights on their gun, they stay on for a long time. This allows them to add things like paint to them. As the sights get old maybe they need a little pick me up. This is unlike your sights which rarely last long enough to lose that "new sight" smell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougCarden Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 Since I put FO sights on pretty much all my guns, I have come back to plain black on black, esp. for Steel. I have progressed to the point that the FO was becoming distracting on long shots like Outer Limits. Plugged up the hole on my MicroDot and used lots of sight black yesterday at the PROAM, best steel match I have ever shot period. All I saw was the front sight on the target, well, wherever the sight was at the time.... It is a vision thing, and I guess I have been able to speed up my vision, The FO now interrupts my vision at speed. I concur with Erik above! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Habicht Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 Dang, just when I was ready to add pink and green polka dots to my sights ---- along comes Erik to thwart my plans. I figured within six months the dots would become all the rage, and I'd whip out my trusty can of sight black and........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNsTeR Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 I've never seen any pattern-painted sights on the gun of a shooter the equivalent of USPSA B class or above. I've seen a glued-on orange-painted front sight on the gun of a Limited GM (and former Junior Standard World Champion) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I switched to a plain black post on the Limited gun from a red FO. Couldn't be happier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 After a 6 3/4 step program, I am now fiber optic free - on everything. Shotgun now sports a boring brass bead. Like Big Dave, I couldn't be happier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD45 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I only use a tiny dot of Liquid Paper on the front sight, but after reading this it might just get attacked by some solvent and a toothbrush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhgtyre Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 The match I shoot most is a weekly steel match and I seem to end up shooting it right at or after sundown most of the time. We have lights but the steel is only painted at the begining of the match so by the time I get to shoot the steel is grey and even with the lights my front sight can completely disappear on some targets. Otherwise I would agree that black sights are the way to go. For my situation I have to go slutty and splash on some color. -ld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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