Modify the part or the gun?

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I picked up several Norc .45s to start doing some customizing on. I want to learn for myself. I have been picking up parts and tools over the last few months to get started. There are the obvious mods that need the frame or slide to be worked on like a Beavertail safety. But when putting new sights on for me it seems it would be better to file the sights to fit the frame rather than the opposite, one the sights are less expensive and the second being that the Norc metal is very hard. Am I thinking correctly or would you file the slide?

If you have any other tips, tricks or advise please let me know.

Thanks for your input,

Mark
 
If all you have atm is files and hand tools to work with then file the part. It's easier and cheaper to make the part fit the gun than to permanently alter the gun such that nothing other than custom fit parts will ever work in it again.
 
GSG1911 said:
If all you have atm is files and hand tools to work with then file the part. It's easier and cheaper to make the part fit the gun than to permanently alter the gun such that nothing other than custom fit parts will ever work in it again.
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THIS absolutely!!! #### with cheapest part and don't modify frame/slide such that an ORIGINAL part would not fit WITH the exception of fitting beavertails - BUT even those are "proprietary" - many are not interchageable with another maker's frame modification "profile".

There is also a lot of VERY BAD and INCORRECT information on YouTube these days. BOOKS and MANUALS are still the best and most authoratative source of information!
 
Almost any sort of sight replacement will require slide milling.

If the original front sight is the tenon type, you will want to replace it with a dovetailed one for durability.

Most types of rear sight are nowhere near matching the original Norinco dovetail, such that you can't just file the sight to fit. A Novak cut (to name one example) will give you a few different options.
 
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