I have a Western , like the one in the picture, I bought in 1969 and it has seen moderate action in chopping up game animals when I used to hunt. Still a good knife and OK steel that take a little bit of time to get shaving sharp , but good knife!
I modified the front sight light pipe to make the front sight more of a post front sight. I took a single edged razor blade and carefully cut off to enlarged portion of the light fiber. The full sized "dot" was .120" and covered most of the upper portion of the front sight. It made it hard to...
I like them also ! I usually buy 1/2 a dozen to give away as Christmas presents! Basically, a good knife and being thin bladed you can get them as sharp as a razor.
I have already replaced the rear sight on the match champion with an adjustable Novak, Mod LMA38001, I am considering a plain post for a sharper target sight type picture. I have a 4" 357, with high vis front sight I can use for personal protection. I sight my revolvers in at 25 yards, six o...
The lite pipes on a Ruger Match Champion are rather large and I would like to use a smaller lite pipe since it takes up so much of the front sight? My other option is to buy a new front sight with out the lite pipe in it ? Any one tried this ?
I have the lite pipe set taht comes with the Ruger...
You have to make sure your grip frame is fully seated on your receiver. The receiver should extend over the top of the grip frame 1/8" or so when fully seated. Otherwise, sometimes the hold open lever pops up and keeps the bolt from going into the receiver. If you bolt goes in part of the way...
I got the Novak LMA38001 replacement sight in today and removed the factory nonadjustable Novak to install the replacement adjustable sight. The factory sight with set screw backed off and soaked in penetrating oil was very tenacious to take off. Small hammer and flat nosed punch got it out. BTW...
Release blurb for Ruger described the Security Six and being made of a high strength stainless steel, with magnetic properties and the same alloy as used in high stress jet airplane parts.