fieldgrade
waiting...
2A Bourbon Hound 2024
2A Bourbon Hound OG
Charter Life Member
Benefactor
Supporting Member
Multi-Factor Enabled
I don't know whether to put it in the safe, or shoot the snot out of it.Oh boy that's a wow.
Nice job. Looks great.
Three days before he died, we were discussing his guns and what to do with them. He said, "Where I'm going, do you think I'll need 'em?"What would Dad do with it?
The latter!I don't know whether to put it in the safe, or shoot the snot out of it.
My vote is...I don't know whether to put it in the safe, or shoot the snot out of it.
It's not the sight stake tool at issue. Brownell's is the only I know who makes one specifically for staking. The fiber front sight is too fragile to handle staking unless you build yourself a tool like this.What site stake tool were you using so I know which one not to get.
Lol. Plan C.First range report.
The grip, and thumb safety fitting were a triumph. Gun ran great till round #10 of 230 grain ball when the front sight flew off.
The slide is already stripped and in a box headed to Novak's to be dovetail cut.
Thanks. It took me a couple of years to work up the nerve.You got some balls. More than I would have attempted with that pistol. Good work!
It's not the sight stake tool at issue. Brownell's is the only I know who makes one specifically for staking. The fiber front sight is too fragile to handle staking unless you build yourself a tool like this.
I expect if I was trying to stake in another non-fiber, or non-tritium vial blade type sight I'd be okay.
I contemplated purchasing that tool but read reviews that it is very hard to swage in the HiViz fiber sight with any tool.I assume you were using this on?
https://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-...y&utm_campaign=itwine&utm_content=080-817-000
I had to watch their video to see how that thing worked. Pretty clever idea.I assume you were using this on?
https://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-...y&utm_campaign=itwine&utm_content=080-817-000
Could you provide a link to the front sight you got from Amazon? Are you using a Dawson rear?Swaging in the sight tenon on the new sight did not go as planned, and also bent the sight in the process. It's a delicate little beast to be whacking on it with a ball peen hammer via a center punch. Found the same sight on Amazon for $23, and ordered some silver solder along with it.
On to Plan B
I’m on my phone. Just search Hiviz sights. Best price was on Amazon. The rear sight was a 10-8 u-notch.Could you provide a link to the front sight you got from Amazon? Are you using a Dawson rear?
Got some LPP I'll trade ya.Save the brass for me!
Yup. Not sure yet if I like that bigger fiber that comes on the Novak front sight, but I'm going to run it for a while. My thought was it might help in quicker target acquisition. We'll see.Sights work ok?
There is nothing like a nice pistol that you personally had a hand modifying it to your liking. I need to get back to tinkering with my beater 1911. Nice work.Just got the slide back from Novaks. How 'bout them dovetails front and rear.
Haven't shot it yet, but the machining and the condition they returned the slide to me in is exceptional. There were some existing scratches on the polished slide's flats that are still there, but they are hard to see now. It's almost like the slide has been reblued, but without losing any character.
View attachment 47320
Thanks. It ran like a champ today at the Deep River match.There is nothing like a nice pistol that you personally had a hand modifying it to your liking. I need to get back to tinkering with my beater 1911. Nice work.
I did.Have you tried different colors to see if that makes a difference with the Novak?
Now that you point it out that FO tube does look big as hell.
Some people actually like them, and Novak makes an even bigger fiber front sight called “super dot” or something, but I figured I’d try the smaller one pictured. Won’t be the first time I spent forty bucks on something that wasn’t “optimal”.Now that you point it out that FO tube does look big as hell.
Uh huh. I certainly get that!Won’t be the first time I spent forty bucks on something that wasn’t “optimal”.
Yer gettin' creative...So, call me crazy but it just occurred to me that one of the best scores I've put up with a 1911 was with this fat Novak fiber front sight. Or maybe all the other guys were just having a bad day. Who knows.
Anyway, I took the last of the green fiber in this mammoth diameter, melted as small a "bulb" on one end as I could, then took one of my wife's nail files with a very fine grit and gently twisted the fiber between my thumb and forefinger, with the edges of the bulb rotating against the file to slightly reduce the diameter of the "bulb". Then gently filed the surface of the "bulb" to "rough it up" just a smidge to see if that will reduce glare from the sun since the "bulb" no longer has a shiny surface. We'll see how it runs this Saturday.
View attachment 51833
I've already got the Dawson ordered. Installation should be fairly easy. I was just recalling how well I did with the current set up two weeks ago, and how poorly I did with the Range Officer this weekend, that I shot better side by side with the Colt at the range running drills.Yer gettin' creative...
Just curious: by 'bulb,' you mean that end of the light tube that faces your eye, so you see a colored circle, right? I was going to suggest mimicing a lathe with a cordless drill & spinning the light tube while grinding or cutting away some of the diameter... then i thought that would be a dumb suggestion since, when viewed end-on, you'd still see the entire diameter even if it was reduced at the end. If you reduced the entire diameter, then the LT would fall out of the sight 'socket.'
I get roughing/dulling the light transmission surface of the cylinder to reduce brightness. Just ponderin how to dial down the 'dot' size w/o a new light tube 'holster.'