Removing staked sights

[Billy Sparks]

Okay I want to remove the front sight on a Colt 1911 which is staked. How do I remove the front sight? Also Brownells lists front sights with tennins (hope I spelled that correctly) as either narrow or wide are Colts Series 80's either all narrow or wide? If not how do I measure?

 

[1911Tuner]

At Stake

Come see me and I'll take it off for ya! Bwahahahahaaaaaa!

C'mon, Billy...Easy directions, and it goes right past a gun store.

 

[BBBBill]

... How do I remove the front sight? Also Brownells lists front sights with tennins (hope I spelled that correctly) as either narrow or wide are Colts Series 80's either all narrow or wide? If not how do I measure?

Sledgehammer??? It's tenon. Very early S80s are narrow. Later ones are all wide. Kinda hard to be certain untill you have it off, but look at the swaged stem inside the slide. If it looks/is wider than the sight blade, it's a wide tenon.

Come see me and I'll take it off for ya! Bwahahahahaaaaaa!

C'mon, Billy...Easy directions, and it goes right past a gun store.

Sounds like the kind of offer you can't refuse. Gun store or not, I'd jump on it.

 

[steveracer]

Wow. You guys gonna help him?

You can take the sight off with vice grips. I grab them from the top and wiggle gently until it's fairly loose, and then rock it along the length of the slide until it comes out. DON'T TWIST IT! This will widen the woodruff key slot in the slide that the tenon sits in.
Then you can check the dimensions to determine what size sight to replace it with.
Steve