Norinco 1911 government sights help

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Title pretty much sums it up.

I've got a norinco 1911 government model and I just hates the pale yellow dots on the sights so I painted the bright green with sight paint.

I find the sight extremly had to see in low light condition as the sights are concave where the paint is and doesn't pick up light very well.

Do I have any other option than getting a new slide as the sights are fixed to the slide? I much prefer the ones on my SR9 as they are bigger and bright white.
 
Your rear sight will be a dovetail. It may be in tight but it can be removed
and replaced with a different sight that is also a dovetail.
The front will either be a dovetail which can also be changed or it is a staked
sight. A staked sight can be replaced by either having it removed and replaced
by a gun smith or have it taken off & a dovetail cut into the slide.

Or try removing the paint that you put on & replace it with a bright
red paint. Fishing lure paint or something as bright .
 
Try this...Grab a can of white spray paint and a can of fluorescent orange paint. Shake the crap outta both. Take a toothpick and apply a small dab of white paint to the concave sight dots. Let dry,apply the orange the same way. You need the white base to make the paint flouress..."IE" be bright. You can do the same to a front blade sight. Just buy a small paintbrush. By small I mean one that kids would use for painting plastic models. Make sure that the white isn't transparent. You may need 2-3 light coats of white then a coat or 2 of color. For the white I have also used white fingernail polish in a pinch.
 
For white on sights I use white appliance touch up, very bright and sticks better then spray paint. The appliance touch up paint comes in a little bottle with a brush, be sure to shake it very well.

At the end of the day though paint doesn't generally stay on sights to well regardless of how clean things are, be sure to scuff the surface up a bit while you are at it.
 
I don't really care for them on mine however I can't budge the sights in their dovetails. I even pulled out steel punches and only managed to dimple the side of the sight. A good buddy even tried and broke his wooden dowels attempting to move the rear sight. I guess I'll get used to punching holes and 1.5" to the right at 15 yards
I'd be interested in any aftermarket sights you may come up with
 
I had wondering about drilling them out and install rods, could be a tough job, and you would have to have the rod on hand 1 st.
 
brybenn said:
I don't really care for them on mine however I can't budge the sights in their dovetails. I even pulled out steel punches and only managed to dimple the side of the sight. A good buddy even tried and broke his wooden dowels attempting to move the rear sight. I guess I'll get used to punching holes and 1.5" to the right at 15 yards
I'd be interested in any aftermarket sights you may come up with
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A lot of the Norinco rear sights are really tight in the dovetail.
I had one that was not going to move. What I did was with a steel drill bit,
I drilled a hole in the rear sight being careful not to touch the slide or the dovetail.
A large enough hole allows the rear sight to collapse a bit a then out it comes.
 
colinjw said:
A lot of the Norinco rear sights are really tight in the dovetail.
I had one that was not going to move. What I did was with a steel drill bit,
I drilled a hole in the rear sight being careful not to touch the slide or the dovetail.
A large enough hole allows the rear sight to collapse a bit a then out it comes.
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I used a 10 ton bearing press, time spent, less than a minute:p
 
colinjw said:
A lot of the Norinco rear sights are really tight in the dovetail.
I had one that was not going to move. What I did was with a steel drill bit,
I drilled a hole in the rear sight being careful not to touch the slide or the dovetail.
A large enough hole allows the rear sight to collapse a bit a then out it comes.
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How hard/tight was it to install your new sight? Would imagine kind of pain if the factory sights fit that tight.
 
Remmy700 said:
How hard/tight was it to install your new sight? Would imagine kind of pain if the factory sights fit that tight.
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The new sight was fine to install. Once you have the factory sight out most of the difficult
work is done. In my case i bought an adjustable rear sight that required a larger
dovetail in the slide and made the dovetail a bit larger with a file . Total time
to take out the old sight, enlarge the dovetail & install a new sight about 45 minutes.
Time well spent.
 
colinjw said:
The new sight was fine to install. Once you have the factory sight out most of the difficult
work is done. In my case i bought an adjustable rear sight that required a larger
dovetail in the slide and made the dovetail a bit larger with a file . Total time
to take out the old sight, enlarge the dovetail & install a new sight about 45 minutes.
Time well spent.
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Thanks, really appreciate the info
 
I got a set of XS standard dot sights and sent them with the slide to Casey Brower at TacOrd. He did a beautiful job of cutting a dovetail for the front sight, and installed the rear sight with no issues. Cost $75, plus the cost of the sights (Brownell's). These sights are highly visible and really work for me.
 
I just took a caliper and measured the front sight dovetail on the norc np29. It measured at .210 which coincidentally is the same width as the para ordnance limited. Now i have no known info or any ways to measure the angle on the dovetail tho. So proceed with caution
 
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