Thursday, December 01, 2011

To anyone familiar with Meprolight tritium sights

Friend had an idea: take a Meprolight tritium shotgun sight, like this one, and mount it on a semi-auto pistol to replace the original tiny blade. Seems like it should work; my question is, anyone know if the shock of being on a slide instead of a barrel would be a problem for it?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You want to use the shotgun dot because it's big, or cheap?

If you just want big XS Sights makes big dot front sights for pistols. A lot more expensive than the shotgun dot, but no hassle mounting.

Firehand said...

His idea was that, on some smaller pistols that do not have a dovetailed slide, it would be a lot less expensive to cut the old sight level with the slide, drill and tap a hole and fit one of these than to have the dovetail cut.