No response so far and the ad still reads the same. Given this, there is no way I would buy from this person.
Model 58? Rear site question
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No response so far and the ad still reads the same. Given this, there is no way I would buy from this person.
pantannojack
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The front sight will not be tall enough with out modifications.
At a Crossroads of the West show decades ago a vendor had some 1911 slides with S&W revolver sight on them. they looked good.
At a Crossroads of the West show decades ago a vendor had some 1911 slides with S&W revolver sight on them. they looked good.
rbrbrb6
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Not sure why a person would spend the money to put a standard adjustable Model 57 type rear sight on a Model 58 but know others have done it. Me, I prefer to violate my Model 58s with Bowens combat sights.
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Hamilton Bowen turned this Model 58 into a 44 Magnum Heavy Duty. Stocks by Roy Fishpaw.
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Another photo, stocks are Amboyna Burl.
Alk8944
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If this photo is the gun in question it looks like the rear sight is a stainless sight that, to my knowledge, was only used on early Model 66s. Even if the gun has been modified by the addition of an adjustable rear sight there has to be modification to the front sight also! A-10s photo doesn't show the front sight.
The reason for emphasis of the word sight is because sight and site are two distinctly different words having vastly different meanings! They are not interchangeable.
SGT ROCK 11B
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That modification, S&W Adjustable Sights on a 1911 was very popular in the late 1960s and 1970s.
That was a Great Gun Show.
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If this photo is the gun in question it looks like the rear sight is a stainless sight that, to my knowledge, was only used on early Model 66s. Even if the gun has been modified by the addition of an adjustable rear sight there has to be modification to the front sight also! A-10s photo doesn't show the front sight.
The reason for emphasis of the word sight is because sight and site are two distinctly different words having vastly different meanings! They are not interchangeable.
Pic was pulled from the auction site...sight is blue. Front sight is stock 58.
Hair Trigger
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Me, I prefer to violate my Model 58s with Bowens combat sights.
Did you also modify a M57 barrel for that, or ?? (extractor rod shroud, but front sight is different).
No more of these than were originally made, the more valuable our unmodified ones become as these fine revolvers get butchered for the sake of being unique or because the owner really wanted a different gun but couldn't find it.
I'm a purist, I suppose.
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Post #30 above, from originally posted #23, center picture, the rear sight looks normal & not all gawdy like add-on sights. Nice gun, too!
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Hamilton Bowen turned this Model 58 into a 44 Magnum Heavy Duty. Stocks by Roy Fishpaw.
BLASPHEMY!
rbrbrb6
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The first gun in my post, without grips, is a 41 Special round butt 58 with a rebored model 520 barrel. The second gun wears a model 25 barrel and was rechambered to 45 Colt. Both guns wear Hamiltons sights.
Probably Not! The machined recess for the adjustable rear sight base would have removed that groove in the frame top!
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