Posted: 10/19/2009 9:31:25 AM EDT
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on my auto ordnance 1911
i was shooting a few weeks ago and about halfway through the magazine i couldnt aim anymore looked at it and the front sight was gone nowhere to be found i bought a new one and it is currently being shipped to me. how does one install it and how can i make sure it doesnt happen again? does it just snap in? sorry newb |
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Sorry to tell you this, but if your FS is staked on, i would think about a different option.
my first 1911 was a Colt ACE. the FS was staked on and flew off after several hundred rounds. I had it replaced with another staked in sight, but its loose also and will probably fly off too. i asked the Colt smith about it and he told me, they do that and it would be better to either silver solder or dove tail. im sure there maybe some other options out there, but its something you should realize. |
| You can stake a front sight in and silver solder flush with inside of slide. In a way that you'd play hell twisting front sight off using vise grips with slide placed in vise. It takes a steady hand of someone who knows what they're doing. A tool from Brownells, a hammer, and a way to secure slide without damaging. |
| Pretty strange that the 1911 survived and has been a wildly successful sidearm for nearly 100 years with a sorry, no-'count, stinkin' staked on front sight. Makes one wonder how those multiple hundreds of thousands of GI weapons provided to all branches of our armed forces could have been kept at the side of our military personnel for so many decades when without warning the front sight went 'aflyin off. For those folks who advise a dovetail for the front, ...maybe a better mousetrap and maybe not. But those things and the many other "modern" cosmetic additions weren't even a speck on an elephant's ass of an idea until the days of IPSA, and tricked out 1911's became the "the unfailing answer to many unasked questions". Longlive the John Browning design in it's 1911-A1 iteration. It works! |
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Years ago.....I had a front site staked on by Wilson Combat........never came loose or any problems.........
everything now is dovetail for the most part...........If you plan on keeping the pistol that may be the way to go........but, staking on a front site without the proper tools or knowledge I would have to farm the job out to an experienced 1911 smith................. |
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Pretty strange that the 1911 survived and has been a wildly successful sidearm for nearly 100 years with a sorry, no-'count, stinkin' staked on front sight. Makes one wonder how those multiple hundreds of thousands of GI weapons provided to all branches of our armed forces could have been kept at the side of our military personnel for so many decades when without warning the front sight went 'aflyin off. For those folks who advise a dovetail for the front, ...maybe a better mousetrap and maybe not. But those things and the many other "modern" cosmetic additions weren't even a speck on an elephant's ass of an idea until the days of IPSA, and tricked out 1911's became the "the unfailing answer to many unasked questions". Longlive the John Browning design in it's 1911-A1 iteration. It works! This +1 |