Night sights and S&W J frames

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Hi all,
I saw a really neat little S&W 442 that had a tritium insert in the front sight only. Does anyone have one of these? If so, how do you like it? It sure made that little front site show up well.

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Fury
 
Red Bull,
The gun I saw it on was a Magnaport modified piece, I really don't know who did the front sight. It also had a ported barrel on it. Sorry I can't tell ya more. :(

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P-T IWI will inlay a green tritium dot in a factory front sight on those little J-frames. They will alos inlay a green bar under the rear notch. I worked on a better, though more expensive, system with them where the front sight is milled off and a black blade is dovetailed in. You get a high visibility black front sight, with a dot, that is also a night sight. They even bead blast the sight plane for you.
 
The Smith & Wesson Performance Center will install tritium inserts in customer's handguns. For recent production revolvers using pinned front sights, I suspect you could just buy a replacement sight with the insert already installed.

1-800-331-0852 ext. 2904
 
Jeff, are you talking a setup something like the Ashley Express sights with the "V" shaped rear sight? That would be cool!
 
The Dot and Bar set up for these wheelguns are very nice - they allow for a fast sight picture in low light. Its a worthy modification.

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Red Bull, no there is not a separate piece for the rear sight. To cut a dovetail weakens the frame too much. In fact they will not install the rear on an alloy gun for the same reason. I know of one person who did have the Ashley dot put on his for a front sight, the rear is a small area milled out below the rear sight notch and a horizontal tritium bar put in. I know they can do the front for you, that is the important one anyway, turns out that they have a SIG front sight that is the correct height.
 
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