'58's Front Sight & Open Holsters

[rodwha]

So I have an 1858 on the way and I'm concerned that the tall and proud front sight will stick out of my holster 1/2-1", and that it'll get caught upon drawing it.

I also have on the way a set of files in case I wanted/needed to clean anything up, and have considered maybe filing that sight at a 45* angle to help with unholstering it.

Has anyone experience with their front sight poking out of their holster?

 

[BHP FAN]

yeah, I used to have a Buscedero rig and my Remington [that one was a Pietta] would snag, but not often. the front sight was already rounded on the corners, but I finally got a better holster.

 

[rodwha]

I have a glow in the dark paint that needs a daily charge, and so the open end would be needed for it to function.

I've had silly thoughts such as a rib to negate that 90* lift...

 

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I was doing quick draw back 50 years ago in my cowboy days and my trigger
finger was quicker than my draw. The gun went off inside of the holster and
blew the bottom out. Didn't have anymore snag problems after that.

 

[rodwha]

I guess you still have all of your toes?

 

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Yes, but I had something in my pants I didn't have before the shot
The 255 gr SWC traveled down my pantleg inside all the way down and came
out about a 1/4 inch from my shoe and went into the ground. I was very, very lucky. I was about a 1/4 mile from the house and I really think that if
the bullet had went into my leg I would not be here now.

 

[dogrunner]

Glad to see somebody else admit to doing what I did at about the age of 16.........home made gun and holster combined to just nick my kneecap and set my jeans on fire!.............NEVER did that again!

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

So I have an 1858 on the way and I'm concerned that the tall and proud front sight will stick out of my holster 1/2-1", and that it'll get caught upon drawing it.

I also have on the way a set of files in case I wanted/needed to clean anything up, and have considered maybe filing that sight at a 45* angle to help with unholstering it.

Has anyone experience with their front sight poking out of their holster?

Howdy

First of all, the really tall front sights on the 1858 Remington are a relatively recent development. Look at an original sometime, the front sights were not that tall. When I bought my EuroArms Remmie back in 1975, it had a short front sight, just like the originals. Move forward about 30 years and I noticed they were starting to come through with much taller front sights. The deal with a short front sight is it will regulate the pistol to hit point of aim farther away. When I was thinking of buying a cartridge conversion cylinder for my old Remmie, I first had a new, taller front sight fitted, to bring the point of impact down to the point of aim at 15 yards or so. Only after I was satisfied with the new point of impact did I spend the money on the cylinder.



Anyhoo, when I bring my Remmies to a Cowboy match, I just put them in my regular CAS holsters. This holster is made for a SAA with a 7 1/2" barrel. You can see the 8" barrel of the Remmie protrudes about 1/2".




This holster is for a 4 3/4" Colt. The Remington barrel protrudes about 3 inches! Yeah, it looks kind of funny, but that's the way I wear my pistols.



Now the point is, I have worn my Remmies like this to lots of matches. And believe it or not, the front sights never hang up when I draw the pistols. They just don't. There is enough slop that the sights glide right through the holsters.

The bottom line is, don't over think this. Wait until you get the pistol. Get familiar with it. Buy a quality holster, don't buy a cheapie. Practice drawing the gun. I'll bet you will not have any problem at all.

Of course, I do not recommend quick draw with a rig like this. As a matter of fact I don't recommend quick draw period. The guys who compete with quick draw shoot blanks or wax bullets. They don't use live ammo for obvious reasons.

 

[tpelle]

For SASS, I think I would buy one or two inexpensive Civil War repro flap holsters and just cut the flap off. That was done a lot back in the day. It was cheap then, and would be cheap today, plus authentic!

 

[BCRider]

One day I'll make or buy a separate rig for my Remingtons. But in the meantime I've been using my shorter open ended SAA rig when I shoot in Frontiersman category.

So far I can't say that I've ever had the gun hang up on me. If it did catch it was minor and the sights jump over the edge of the leather with little resistance.

 

[rodwha]

I actually want the sight to stick out as I'll be painting it with glow in the dark paint that needs light to charge it. I'm just concerned that it'll get caught.

 

[fdf]

"I have a glow in the dark paint that needs a daily charge, and so the open end would be needed for it to function."/I actually want the sight to stick out as I'll be painting it with glow in the dark paint that needs light to charge it. I'm just concerned that it'll get caught.




Okay, I will bite the baited hook, why do you have a glow in the dark paint that needs a daily charge, and so the open end would be needed for it to function on your Remington 1858 which you keep in a holster?

Once you file the front sight to a 45 degree angle, it is no longer a Remington 1958, you have ruined it.

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Why in the Wide World of Sports do you think you need glow in the dark paint on the front sight of a percussion revolver?

 

[rodwha]

I could use it were I to wound a hog in the evening and need to track it down.

I've had an instance where one came in right at dusk, and sitting in a tree stand looking down, it was hard to see the sights on him.

I'll be swapping out the fiber optic sights on my Lyman's rifle and using this on it as well.