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- From: steve@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com (Steve Bridges)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Colt or Springfield 1911A1
- Message-ID: <C04oDs.AJv@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:36:35 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- hays@SSD.intel.com (Kirk Hays) writes:
-
- #In article <1992Dec27.155514.483@slammer.UUCP>, brad%slammer.UUCP@mathcs.emory.edu (Brad Isley) writes:
-
- #|> They all went 8"
- #|> high (the slide is now being milled to lower the rear sight to match the
- #|> front sight height).
-
- #(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.)
-
- On my Colt 1911 (it's a 1911, not a 1911A1), the rear site IS part of the
- slide -- it's made (forged, cast, whatever) from the same hunk of metal as
- the slide.
-
- Steve
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