Polish front sight?

[McCrower]

I am new to Cas, and would like to get advice about making the front sight on my uberti's easier to see and "find" when shooting. I see that Uniquetek sells polishing kits for the front sight; http://www.uniquetek.com/site/696296/product/T1559. What is the point with this? Or are there other methods that could be recommended? Of course it must be allowed in Cas comeptitions..

[August]

A piece of leather on a stick is the best way to burnish the front sight before a match.

With the one available from Uniquetek, you get Palo Verde's usual excellent production of a concept.

Brass sights always tarnish between matches.  So, shining them up is a good thing.

[Fox Creek Kid]

Just remember that what is very shiny will be hard to see on a sunny day due to reflection. Shooting at a covered range & outdoors in the open are two different matters.  

[Pettifogger]

You posted this in the Single Action forum.  The stick in question is primarily for polishing the brass front sights on rifles.  If you have replaced/covered the front sights on your revolvers with brass then it will work fine on that too.  However, if you have the stock front sight you don't want to polish the front sight as it will make it harder to see.  A lot of people go to Home Deport and buy a little bottle of appliance paint repair and then paint the back of the front sight white.  Makes it easier to see, especially on a blued gun.

[Gabriel Law]

Appliance repair paint....what colour?  White I assume...

A polished front sight works fine when the sun is behind you.  But there are times that you will wish it was black.  On my Pedersoli Lightning, I cut the front sight bead at a 45 degree angle to catch light, and it does work well for fast acquisition.

[hp246]

I came to CAS from Bullseye and PPC.  In both I used to blacken my sights to keep reflection to a minimum.  Althought the perfect sight picture is not nearly as important in CAS as say Bullseye, I still like to keep my sights as non-reflective as possible.  Reflection seems to make it even worse on my aging eyes.

[Pettifogger]

Appliance repair paint....what colour?  White I assume...

A polished front sight works fine when the sun is behind you.  But there are times that you will wish it was black.  On my Pedersoli Lightning, I cut the front sight bead at a 45 degree angle to catch light, and it does work well for fast acquisition.

White is what most people use.  It is pretty durable so it only needs recoating sporatically.

[Fox Creek Kid]

...I still like to keep my sights as non-reflective as possible.  Reflection seems to make it even worse on my aging eyes.

A nickel gun with nickel sights on a sunny day is awful. But, it looks cool. 

[marko]

I believe if your talking about Uberti then it is Italian and not Polish.

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

I like to blacken the vertical face of the frontsight, a Marker pen works, and leave the sloping top bright. The best of both worlds.