Beretta 21A sight cut and install

[doubleg]

I currently have a Beretta 21A Covert that I run with a SilencerCo Sparrow. It’s a great suppressor host and decently reliable. The sights however are beyond useless and I was wondering if there is enough meat on this slide and barrel to have it dovetail cut and then suppressor sights installed. I’ve read of this being done with Sig P220 sights but not sure if it’s nonsense or not.

 

[trackskippy]

You might want to try highlighting the sights with something like nail polish, just something maybe with a little contrast, that you can get a quick and decent alignment with, and just "shoot through" the suppressor.

I have standard three dot night sights on my Glocks and my suppressor blocks the sights when its on the gun. I just use the dots for alignment. It works on the same principle as the old OEG type sights. You shoot both eyes open, your strong eye sees the sights, your weak eye the target, and your brain does the rest. Once you get used to it, I think you'd be surprised at how well it works. I can make consistent head shots with mine at 25 yards shooting that way, and up closer, its very precise.

The dots make things a little easier, as they give both horizontal and vertical alignment, but with say with a white rear, and an orange front, something you cn see against the back of the can, you should be able to get a decent traditional sight picture and see through the can.

 

[Shivahasagun]

I put white paint on the front.

Yea, I wish it had bigger sights, too.

 

[9mmepiphany]

I was wondering if there is enough meat on this slide and barrel to have it dovetail cut and then suppressor sights installed. I’ve read of this being done with Sig P220 sights but not sure if it’s nonsense or not.

There is barely enough meat in the SIG 220 slides...the folded ones with the integral front sights... to install dovetailed sights.

The Beretta 21A has plenty of meat at the rear, as you'd cur the dovetail into the "hump" of the rear sight, but the barrel band on the front is just barely above the OD of the barrel.

If you really wanted a taller front sight, you could have someone carefully weld some stock onto the top of the barrel band to accommodate a dovetail

 

[chicharrones]

My ol' Bobcat is really a point shooting gun. I've used the sights in the past, when my eyes were better, but the process was slow even then.

 

[Ohen Cepel]

Maybe, you could pin a sight onto the existing front one? Have seen that done on some things in the past. Not sure if there is enough there to hold a pin or not.

I think I would leave it be though. Buy something that fits your needs better if the Covert doesn't as it could get $$ to mod it much.
I have done things like that in the past and it often did not turn out well and resulted in my just having less $$ in the end. It won't be much better than it is with larger sights added.

 

[Jimbo80]

I'm with Chich. A 21A is covert by design and imo perfect in its original config. It's a vest pocket gun not designed for aiming or a silencer. I would get a 70s for the can which (again imo) is a perfect silencer host with tons of history as such.