Share Your Modified Front Sights

[RKmesa]

For most of us, front sights are a critical part of accurately sending lead down range. For years, shooters have tweaked their guns to get the best sight picture and improve their proficiency in their sport.

In looking at my guns, many of them have custom front sights, that were modified "somewhen" in their history. I thought it would be fun to share some examples.

So... to start it off, here are a few of mine:

A little 2" pre-war M&P given the King Super Police Night Sight treatment - one of my favorite sight treatments for a fixed sighted revolver:





A 6.5" pre-27 with a McGivern bead added to the Patridge front sight:





A 5.5" Model 27 with a simple dab of red paint on the rear of the Patridge blade...





... and the last one for now, a K-22 with a King ramp and a red post:





I'm looking forward to seeing your front sights that have been modified.

Thanks for letting me share,

 

[LLOYD17]

I love those modified S&W's!

Here's a cut front sight for a Pre-22 (I just cleaned the paint off the sight this morning)

My custom 1917 with the brass front sight and a 44 3rd with an imitation King Reflector Ramp front sight

My only Top Break with a chopped barrel and modified front ramp sight and rear blade added (120 year old pocket gun!!)

An OD with some King work to it (built for a lefty)

And my OD turned 44 spl with a Call Gold Bead

 

[weatherby]

One of my favorites.......almost like cheating.
Of course the U notch rear sight helps a bit too.



An early post war K 22



with its corresponding rear sight

 

[Pondoro]

I cannot post pictures anymore since the Photobucket upheaval. But I have a 32 Regulation Police with the original half moon front sight. Someone added braze metal to the back side of the sight and then squared off the back. No original metal was removed and the sight height was not changed. It simply has a square back. It is surprisingly non-obvious, since most of the bluing is gone.

 

[Xfuzz]

Not sure what the thinking was on this one.

 

[BlackAgnes]

My barrel band front sight on my "Raiders" homage...

Tim

 

[gnystrom]

Did kind of a two part paint job on a Ruger SP101. It made it much easier to get a repeatable sight picture.

 

[hibbs]

Here is a early .22 Kit gun with King white bead front sight.

Richard

 

[230grfmj]

Here's one that started off as a 'half moon' sight on a 3rd model 5" barrel that Hamilton Bowen did for me.

 

[tt66]

... and the last one for now, a K-22 with a King ramp and a red post:

that made my heart melt. very sweet !

 

[S&W ucla]

Picked up a nice pre-war that had a unique front sight blade. It looks like they cut the blade down, then soldered nickel-silver, then copper strip. Maybe 50,100, and 200 yard zero? Going to have to shoot it and see. With one program, 50yd zero shows 100yd -6.0" and 200yd -42." Kinda neat homemade longrange sight.

 

[NavySCPO]

Interesting thread, just curious, since I saw one last night on GB, a Baby Chief with slightly modified front sight, the sight appears to be the original and has been cut or ground, not too much, but certainly enough that even my inexperienced eyes saw it right away.

My question is, what does this do to the value of the gun? Originality certainly seems to be a prime concern to most collectors, so I would think this could detract a good deal, but I really don’t know.

Thoughts?

 

[crsides]

Ivory insert compliments of Ray Viramontez on my 25-2. You can click for more detail.

 

[crsides]

I'm thinking an Ithaca shotgun front sight ???

 

[crsides]

King reflector base and red bead rifle sight for a Win 71.

 

[lestert357]

The Red Ramp front sight blade on my 1950 vintage Pre-Model 27 - about 3 years BEFORE the factory offered this feature!

 

[RKmesa]

A lot of great sights on the above guns. Thanks for sharing. The front sight on this pre-war 4" 38/44 Outdoorsman has always been one of my favorites:

 

[Messer]

S&W 4" Triple Lock 44 Special...

S&W 3.25" 32 Long with factory target sights - hard to see, but the front sight is marked Lyman and looks like an ivory bead.

Happy New Year to all,
Bob S.

 

[Hawg Rider]

I've only a couple of S&W revolvers with modified front sights: the first is my 4" nickel .44 HE (W&K, 1926). A previous owner must have preferred a .357 Magnum style ramp and Baughman sight to the original half-moon. The second is my 1905 4th Model .32-20 (ca. 1924) with a copper bead.

 

[glenwolde]

The Weigand DX front sight base I had mounted on my 6" Model 66. You can put anything you want in it at anytime. If they don't make what you want it's not hard to modify a spare blade. Take a Patridge blade and drill a hole in it for a brass bead or whatever. Allows easy experimentation and you'll never have a problem changing sights again.