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- From: hays@SSD.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Colt or Springfield 1911A1
- Message-ID: <C03BGJ.ECs@SSD.intel.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 01:25:44 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Dec27.155514.483@slammer.UUCP>, brad%slammer.UUCP@mathcs.emory.edu (Brad Isley) writes:
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- |> They all went 8"
- |> high (the slide is now being milled to lower the rear sight to match the
- |> front sight height).
-
- Beg pardon?
-
- If you've got a 'smith who's doing what you say he's doing, it's not your slide,
- but your wallet that's being worked on.
-
- (Since the rear sight is not part of the slide on a M1911, it is not necessary to
- modify the slide to lower point-of-impact, just the rear sight. Better yet, get
- a higher front sight.)
-
- --
- Kirk Hays - NRA Life.
- "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
- do nothing." -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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