- May 13, 2005
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Sitting here enjoying a beautiful day shooting a Mosin 91\30. The iron sights are nice and dark black and contrast light targets very well, but unfortunately, most of the day my steel targets I shoot at are in a thick wooded area covered in shade. I throw some orange paint on the targets, but that doesn't last to long as much as I shoot them (with mostly 22lr) so I don't particularly want to walk down and paint them 5x a day.
I have put various types of high visibility paints on other iron sights of non collectable modern guns and that works well, but I don't particularly want to paint the sights on my milsurp rifles. Also don't want to replace or modify sights with aftermarket things.
So question is: does any one have a non destructive or fairly noninvasive way to make the sights pop out better without modifying the mosin?
A couple initial thoughtswhile I stare downrange were high visibility tapes, but not sure about tape residues affecting finish or moving around as metal heats up, or a colorful synthetic sleeve of nylon or something, but that might make the front post too big.
I know the mosin isn't at the top of the milsurp collector list, but this one is prolly around a $500 example, also would like this same solution for other more valuable milsurps u shoot as well.
Thanks for the thoughts in advance.
I have put various types of high visibility paints on other iron sights of non collectable modern guns and that works well, but I don't particularly want to paint the sights on my milsurp rifles. Also don't want to replace or modify sights with aftermarket things.
So question is: does any one have a non destructive or fairly noninvasive way to make the sights pop out better without modifying the mosin?
A couple initial thoughtswhile I stare downrange were high visibility tapes, but not sure about tape residues affecting finish or moving around as metal heats up, or a colorful synthetic sleeve of nylon or something, but that might make the front post too big.
I know the mosin isn't at the top of the milsurp collector list, but this one is prolly around a $500 example, also would like this same solution for other more valuable milsurps u shoot as well.
Thanks for the thoughts in advance.