Ruger GP100 Front Sight Change

Fiber optics

The 'pipes' hold up well and are easy to change if one should break. I see lots of them on competition shotguns and quite a few are starting to show up on handguns.
 
Changes

I'm pretty well sold on that red ramp for now...eyes get worse each year so I may well change down the line. Thanks for the tip.
 
Sarge,

I am kind of a traditionalist when it comes to my revolvers, as I really like the red ramp style front sight....that is until I installed my first Fiber Optic sight. As a matter of fact I wanted the best of both worlds, so I installed a tritium fiber optic sight on my XD45. Wow.....I did not realize just how much I have been missing all these years. I am now looking for one for my 3" GP-100. I may have to buy and modify one to fit it. I like the fact that during the daylight hours, the fiber optic glows like it is on fire and at night the tritium insert lights up the same fiber optic rod, but at a level that is good for darkness. It is not too bright, that it is a blurr, or too dim that you have to strain to see it.

tex
 
I installed the Williams Firesight fiber optic front and rear sights on my 30 year old Ruger Single-Six several months ago and have been very happy with them. I am shooting much better groups with WMR ammo than I ever shot with the stock sights (gee, my eyes are also thirty years older).

I am looking for a fiber optic front sight for my Ruger SP101 .357. I have not been able to find one specifically for the SP 101. Any suggestions would be appreciated............Many thanks.
 
After A Time

When I sell some of the scrap I've got piling up in the yard, unload my Smith revolvers that my buddy is selling AND my wife has forgotten my recent ammo buying spree ("Price is going way up, dear...gotta' buy cheap and stack deep!") I will be able to try a fiber optic sight out. Until then, the Walther P22 will be my last purchase for the foreseeable future!
 
Hey SGT. Ruger also sells solid color front sights for the GP. I believe the colors are blue, white and orange.

You may find that trying to acquire a dark target in low light using the red insert is very tough indeed. I did.

It cost me a wounded javalina last year.

They also sell a brass bead for the GP which is what I use when hunting with it now.

Also, our SP wears a XS sights tritium front with a white outline circle that works REALLY good. They have one for the GP also I believe.

Have fun with that blaster whatever you do. Brian
 
apologize for posting on old thread. I would like to know what exact type/size punch would be best for installing the front sights? thanks
 
If you're talking about the sights retained by the plunger/spring system which runs parallel to the bore then there's no need to get something that's exactly the right size. Anything that fits in the plunger channel will work fine.
 
My GP100s are in the bottom of my gunsafe behind/under a lot of crap that doesn't belong in a gunsafe and that was put there by an unnamed person who is married to me.

That means that I don't know exactly what size the hole is right now. Any pin punch with a square end (not a nail punch or center punch) should work ok as long as it fits in the hole.

The 3 piece Dasco set in the Home Depot link looks like a good bet if I had to pick one from the list, but I can't actually recommend them because I haven't used that particular brand.
 
My GP100s are in the bottom of my gunsafe behind/under a lot of crap that doesn't belong in a gunsafe and that was put there by an unnamed person who is married to me.
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You should be ashamed, my GP100 is at the top so its the first thing I see when I open my safe. :D:p
 
@woodspirits - Supposedly the HiViz front fiber optic sight for the P series pistols also will fit the front sight of a SP101. However, since the SP101 front sight is pinned in place (and the HiViz sight is not drilled for a pin) I believe installation would require some minor gunsmithing.

HiViz-Ruger-P-Series-Fiber-Optic

ETA: I just realized the question posed about SP101 sights was asked back in 2007, so proabaly no longer pertinent :o
 
apologize for posting on old thread. I would like to know what exact type/size punch would be best for installing the front sights? thanks
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I used a straight allen wrench, biggest one that fit in the hole.
 
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