Due to the volume of parts sales, I am no longer offering custom installation of stake-in front sights or gold beads installed in stake-in sights. If you want this service performed, I can recommend JC Mayfield at 417-355-9501, JC@Gunsmithery.us.
All stake-in sights are back in stock! NOW WITH MEDIUM TENON FOR SPRINGFIELD!!
After many requests from folks looking to either upgrade an older pistol wearing the old "hump & bump" M 1911 A1 style sights, or someone wanting to keep the original appearance of their currently produced 1911, Harrison Design now has what you've been looking for.
We are now offering a family of stake-in front sights featuring an improved ramp with serrations which appears much blacker in your sight picture than many of the current factory offerings.
The blades are all .125" wide and are sold in either .195" heights or .175" heights. The .175" sight is offered to use with our HD-003 rear sight for customers who want a front sight height that is about right to use as is for an acceptable elevation zero. The .195" tall sight is for customers who want some extra material to allow them to start "too tall" and file the blade down as needed to attain a "perfect" elevation zero.
Additionally, the .175" tall sights are offered with a painted white dot in a machined pocket, for a color contrasting feature to help with quick target aquisition.
These sights look and work great on all 1911s with stake-in front sights.
TENON INFO
As a rule of thumb, if your Colt is a "Pre Series-'80" production, you'll need the .060" narrow tenon ("N"). If it's a Series '80 or newer manufacture, it will need a .125" wide tenon ("W"). The Springfield .082" "medium width" tenon ("M") is now available as a standard part.
PRO Tip- Before you stake in your new sight, cut a chamfer around the mortise (the square hole) that the tenon goes through in the interior of your slide to create room for the end of your tenon to mushroom into as you stake it. Be sure to degrease the slide and sight and apply plenty of red LocTite 263 on the surfaces before assembly. Done correctly, a staked in sight will never come loose. After the LocTite has set (24 hours) use a rotary tool with a smallish stone to grind down the excess material left by staking your tenon to the point that the original surface height has returned, but no more.
