doubleh
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I own one set of fiber optic sights. I couldn't depend on hitting a barn unless I was inside it with My Ruger SR22. I finally installed a set and can now come pretty close or occasionally hit a coke can at 20 yards.
Red ramp front sight - yea or nay?
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I have a couple revolves or two that have red, or other color sights in their ramped sights. They usually end up being painted with sight black.
I have a few handguns that have fiber optics with front fiber sights, I like them for the most part. I do not compete in handgun bullseye competition so I do not how well they work fort that.
Bottom line, it depends on what you like and find useful to your use.
I have a few handguns that have fiber optics with front fiber sights, I like them for the most part. I do not compete in handgun bullseye competition so I do not how well they work fort that.
Bottom line, it depends on what you like and find useful to your use.
halfmoonclip
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Interesting to see you using a Dremel to make the tiny hole to retain the new sight. I've tried a little of everything, and had some mixed success with wandering hole centers. Really wish Smith used the spring retention on everything, though I had a tough time removing the sight on a 986.
Moon
I use orange nail polish from a halloween store. I don't have any pistols with a red ramp sight on it, so I add the color myself. I just like it. I find it faster to have the front sight be a different color than the rear sight, and orange like a shotgun works for me.
sparkyv
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Yup, it takes a tiny No.54 bit, and I had to make my own "punch". Drill about halfway on one side, then come in the other to finish.
The DX type replaceable front sights are WAYYYY better to swap out, and yes some are real buggers coming out. It has been my experience that the S&W installers don't fit them properly, they just hammer them in.
The DX type replaceable front sights are WAYYYY better to swap out, and yes some are real buggers coming out. It has been my experience that the S&W installers don't fit them properly, they just hammer them in.
halfmoonclip
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Seems I made a punch from one of those tiny drill bits. Have a box with all those little sight tools, for the next time I need to do one. I like your idea coming in from both sides; did a sight on a 25-15, and it came through a little off. Really, no harm, no foul, but just more trouble than it should have been.
Moon
The Smith red ramp is OK.
I detest fiber optic sights.
For bullseye i like reg black front and rear.
Got a set of Kensights for my Python.
Hate Elliason rear sights ( saddle holding blade)
Oddly, like the S&W saddle rear sight.
But best of all a full blade rear.
Does change the overall look though
I detest fiber optic sights.
For bullseye i like reg black front and rear.
Got a set of Kensights for my Python.
Hate Elliason rear sights ( saddle holding blade)
Oddly, like the S&W saddle rear sight.
But best of all a full blade rear.
Does change the overall look though
I prefer black sights on my revolvers, carry or Target.
There are the four styles currently on my revolvers, Patridge, McGivern bead, ramp and half round. The half round will be swapped for either a Patridge or McGivern bead, not sure which. They all present well and give me the sight picture I can use.
Kevin
There are the four styles currently on my revolvers, Patridge, McGivern bead, ramp and half round. The half round will be swapped for either a Patridge or McGivern bead, not sure which. They all present well and give me the sight picture I can use.
Kevin
P5 Guy
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My only red ramped site. I really don't find it a detriment. Or a benefit.
I have done the same thing. My old eyes see the FO so much better.
I keep the ramp sights if I ever sell or pass on my revolvers.
Bazoo
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I don't care for red front sights. I find black target sights to be better for me under all lighting conditions and under all usages.
Fiber optic front sights are not bad, but they can be distracting.
My eyes do not agree with white outline rear sights.
Fiber optic front sights are not bad, but they can be distracting.
My eyes do not agree with white outline rear sights.
357smallbore
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Ruger and S&W red ramps any day, every day
Sour Kraut
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I have a S&W 629 Deluxe with the red ramp front sight. Do you know where I can find a fiber optic front sight for it? I am not having any success.
sparkyv
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If this is what your sight looks like Sour Kraut, it is the DX replaceable type. I use the ones from HIVIZ.
Sour Kraut
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That’s what I have. Thank you, I will check out their website.
Sour Kraut
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How do I measure for the proper height?
JN01
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If you are able to use black sights on a black target in poor light, your eyes work much better than mine.
Bazoo
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Well, I suppose you got me there. I don't ever shoot in poor light. For any kind of target work, I shoot at fluorescent orange or green, sometimes black but rarely. I do dry fire some though, and in the house with not great light, aiming at a speck of dirt on the white wall is about as poor of lighting as I can work with.
trackskippy
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Ill second the black sights on black or dark targets thing. They flat out suck.
Now, for bullseye target-type shooting, with a 6 o'clock hold, where you know the offset, they work great.
Now, for bullseye target-type shooting, with a 6 o'clock hold, where you know the offset, they work great.
GJeffB
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channeling trackskippy ...
In the days of yore (IPSC steel) *everybody* had red inserts, red paint, red fingernail polish, etc ad nauseum, me included. Only hits mattered (ding. ding ding ding, no ding, etc). Steel was black, speed was need, and the contrast worked. "As time goes by ... " things change. A couple of years ago wife gifted me a cheapo BB gun for running off deer in the yard. Yellowish fiber optic. WTH?? Essentially forces my eyes to the front sight, everything else is peripheral, as supposed to be, and I'd be happy with the fiber optic front (only) on almost everything.
Red, orange, lime green, neon, whatever else ... not so much. My experience only, YMMV.
In the days of yore (IPSC steel) *everybody* had red inserts, red paint, red fingernail polish, etc ad nauseum, me included. Only hits mattered (ding. ding ding ding, no ding, etc). Steel was black, speed was need, and the contrast worked. "As time goes by ... " things change. A couple of years ago wife gifted me a cheapo BB gun for running off deer in the yard. Yellowish fiber optic. WTH?? Essentially forces my eyes to the front sight, everything else is peripheral, as supposed to be, and I'd be happy with the fiber optic front (only) on almost everything.
Red, orange, lime green, neon, whatever else ... not so much. My experience only, YMMV.
