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Hobie — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 00:06:48 +0000

"Dumb" question of the day... S&W rear sights (reply)

MR — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 23:24:40 +0000

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Irving, TX
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He's at the store Tues - Thurs. Other than that he's out buying parts inventories at out of business gun stores or setting up at Gun Shows.

"Dumb" question of the day... S&W rear sights (reply)

Catoosa — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 22:55:04 +0000

Unless your customer really needs and/or wants an adjustable sight, Brownells has a fixed sight that fits into the recess. I know it was made for the K-frame, and I suspect for the L-frame too.

The fixed rear sight that Brownells sells is about $100 and I'm Cheap Charlie. So, on hard-use guns, I file the elevation stud down so that the sight will crank down into hard contact with the frame, zero it for windage, and file down the front sight to zero the gun with my "using" load. Then I goop the sight up good with Locktite to make sure it never gets moved off zero. Point being, adjusto sights aren't really necessary on most handguns.

Bowen makes his excellent rear sight for late model (reply)

brionic — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 14:58:45 +0000

S&Ws. These are only for the sight assemblies with the round-ended tang, not the classic old square tanged sort.

"Dumb" question of the day... S&W rear sights (reply)

jgt — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 12:39:42 +0000

Brownell's had them for sale at one time. Don't know if they have one for an L frame in stock at any given time. Also Simmons in Olathe Kansas was an official S&W repair station when I was working there. I use to go there and buy sight parts from them. Give them a call.

"Dumb" question of the day... S&W rear sights (reply)

Josh Maloley — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 12:24:18 +0000

Yes, they can be very difficult to replace if you don't have the assy.

I worked very hard to locate one a couple of years ago.
Since then I've squirrled away all the spare sight parts I've come across.

Hammer noses (hammer mounted firing pins) used to be hard to come by too, so I also horded them.
Now Powers Custom makes great hammer noses.

Someday, someone will make replacement sights, until then, fixed sight revolvers rule the world.

"Dumb" question of the day... S&W rear sights

Hobie — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:58:55 +0000

We had, for a couple of months, a S&W 686 4" on which somebody had mounted a scope. Of course the rear sight had been removed for this particular mount. The person who bought the gun didn't want the scope and removed it and went looking for a rear sight. He says that he contacted S&W and got no joy. This is a fairly recently manufactured firearm and that surprised me. So, the dumb question of the day is, are S&W sights really so difficult to get? What's the going price for a set for the more modern revolvers?