Replacement sight for Norinco 1911A1
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The front sight uses the Colt M70 front sight. Everybody makes one. If you have the clean slide GI 1911 now being sold cheap, a low fibre optic sight would be too high for the rear sight, so a matching rear sight is also required. I have installed a number of rear sights on Norcs using the stock dovetail.
I am about to install a low fibre optic on a GI and switch the rear sight to the fixed rear sight off the sport model Norc. It is taller.
I am about to install a low fibre optic on a GI and switch the rear sight to the fixed rear sight off the sport model Norc. It is taller.
I have heard that the front site is silver soldered in place, don't know if that is fact or not. I'm definitely going to need bigger sights or stronger glasses, lol, the sight dots look pretty small although some have said they're fine (young eyes I guess).
Is that .300x 60* for the front? And is that what catalogues refer to as a narrow tenon or a wide tenon?
Thanks
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No. 300x60 refers to a dovetail size. The GI models do not use a front dovetail. They have a little foot that goes down into a slot in the slide. This is the tenon model, and it takes the narrow tenon from the M70 series Colt.
