Glinting foresight

[Sheriff Langston]

My stainless steel foresight catches the light. If there's bright sunshine or an indoor light off to one side it throws the aim off.

I've thought of painting it matt black, or maybe checkering or knurling it somehow. Any bright (or rather dull) ideas?

What would be historically most authentic? Do any Wild West cap-&-balls have foresights treated in any way? Did they used to smoke their sights like sharpshooter rifles?

[madcratebuilder]

I had the same problem with my nickle 58.  I bead blasted the sight post and have a dull metal finish no glint.

[Sheriff Langston]

Hmmm bead blasting would work. Has anyone ever seen an original with anything like that done to the foresight? I tried painting it matt black with some model airplane enamel, that seems to do it, but gets rubbed off in holster and when cleaning so not really a long term solution

[St. George]

'Smoking' was what was done during the era.

Accurate shooting was done with long guns - short guns were used for more 'immediate' threats.

What might be easiest - 'and'  less expensive - would be for you to tape all of the surrounding area, and just use a heavy grit sandpaper or a new 3M pad to roughen the 'just' back edge of the front sight blade.

That'd give you enough of a matte finish, and wouldn't be obvious.

The roughened surface would also help hold any carbon or paint.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Montana Slim]

Gee, I have to shine the edges on mine up a bit now & then to help me find it 

Regards,
Slim