"Dumb" question of the day... S&W rear sights

by Catoosa, Saturday, June 06, 2015, 17:55 (3398 days ago) @ Hobie

Unless your customer really needs and/or wants an adjustable sight, Brownells has a fixed sight that fits into the recess. I know it was made for the K-frame, and I suspect for the L-frame too.

The fixed rear sight that Brownells sells is about $100 and I'm Cheap Charlie. So, on hard-use guns, I file the elevation stud down so that the sight will crank down into hard contact with the frame, zero it for windage, and file down the front sight to zero the gun with my "using" load. Then I goop the sight up good with Locktite to make sure it never gets moved off zero. Point being, adjusto sights aren't really necessary on most handguns.