Swiss rifle tall front sight blades available (all types)

toolness1 · Jun 30, 2015

I have seen a few people ask about these lately. I just ran across this recent post on the Swiss rifle forum and thought I would pass it on:

Please direct all inquiries for tall sight replacement blades to czechmauseritis@comcast.net. These are for 96/11, 1911 long rifles and for K11 and K31 carbines

Numrich also did get in some tall ones as well for the 1911, these are used.

Extra high:
http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Products/1437420.htm

High:
http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Products/1437410.htm

EDIT: Fixed typo (not mine) in email address

Abulg1972 · Jun 30, 2015

How hard are these to replace/install? I've never tried to move the front sight on my current 96/11, but I couldn't make the thing budge on the rifle that I sold.

toolness1 said:
I have seen a few people ask about these lately. I just ran across this recent post on the Swiss rifle forum and thought I would pass it on:

Please direct all inquiries for tall sight replacement blades to czecmauseritis@comcast.net. These are for 96/11, 1911 long rifles and for K11 and K31 carbines

Numrich also did get in some tall ones as well for the 1911, these are used.

Extra high:
http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Products/1437420.htm

High:
http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Products/1437410.htm

CasualObserver · Jun 30, 2015

Abulg1972 said:
How hard are these to replace/install? I've never tried to move the front sight on my current 96/11, but I couldn't make the thing budge on the rifle that I sold.

On the K31 at least it looks like you could drift it in if you are carefull and use nonmarring tools, but I have a little tool (if I remember right it looks like a donut with a screw press running through it) that makes adjustment easy.

mawkie · Jun 30, 2015

W.O. a front sight tool specific to the rifle I use a brass drift. I'm fortunate to have a Swiss K31/K11 tool (Swiss Army issue and totally over engineered) and a M1911 tool that the late Guisan sold me so the drift stays in the tool box.

CasualObserver · Jun 30, 2015

mawkie said:
W.O. a front sight tool specific to the rifle I use a brass drift. I'm fortunate to have a Swiss K31/K11 tool (Swiss Army issue and totally over engineered) and a M1911 tool that the late Guisan sold me so the drift stays in the tool box.

Yeah my front sight tool for the K31 came from Guisan too (the MK-31 model), only it is new manufacturer. I looked at the directions and it has a contact email if anyone is interested (not Guisan.... looks like it was made by someone else). I think I paid $20 for it.

Abulg1972 · Jun 30, 2015

CasualObserver said:
Yeah my front sight tool for the K31 came from Guisan too (the MK-31 model), only it is new manufacturer. I looked at the directions and it has a contact email if anyone is interested (not Guisan.... looks like it was made by someone else). I think I paid $20 for it.

I need one of those. I used the strength of the Incredible Hulk, a hammer and a brass drift on my last 96/11 and the thing wouldn't budge. The only things my efforts produced were a bent drift and brass on my front sight.

Abulg1972 · Jun 30, 2015

CasualObserver said:
On the K31 at least it looks like you could drift it in if you are carefull and use nonmarring tools, but I have a little tool (if I remember right it looks like a donut with a screw press running through it) that makes adjustment easy.

I drifted the front sight on my K31 using a brass punch. I'm not sure what was up with my 96/11 - maybe it was staked, but there was no moving it. Luckily, my new 96/11 is pretty much centered. I'm hoping that my soon to be received M1911 will be the same.

Abulg1972 · Jun 30, 2015

Wow. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1900-1924-S...791?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20fd495bf7

CasualObserver · Jun 30, 2015

Abulg1972 said:
Wow. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1900-1924-S...791?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20fd495bf7

My $20 one is looking pretty good right now. Design is a little different so maybe it only works on the one with sights like the K31 though and this one on ebay (beyond its obvious collectability) works on all of them making it more valuable.

Threeband · Jun 30, 2015

The sight on the 1911 Rifle uses an ordinary side-to-side dovetail.

The K31, and the K11 (?) use that odd diagonal dovetail. Thus the tools would be different.

Abulg1972 · Jun 30, 2015

I found a guy that was selling combo pushers that worked on both the M1911s and the carbines, but he has none left. I also found a sight pusher for a K98k - I wonder if it would work. Hate to spend $20 on something I'll never use.

toolness1 · Jun 30, 2015

This seller makes a 1911 96/11 front sight tool but is currently out:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/lptoolworks/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

He also makes a K31/K11 tool and has one in stock.

The K31 front sight tool is quite easy to make yourself, but with his price, I would just buy one.

Some sights are just on there like they need an act of God to move them.

My dad bought a special heavy duty Type 53 sight tool from a guy, and bent two of them and the sight never moved. (the guy gave him his money back)

Abulg1972 · Jul 1, 2015

This is the tool I found that is supposed to work on both the M1911 variants and the carbines. I contacted the seller and he said that he is in the process of making more.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/261867355109?_mwBanner=1

todbiker · Jul 1, 2015

czecmauseritis@comcast.net

I sent this gentlemen an email that bounced back and a PM on swissrifles prior to this thread and received no response......

toolness1 · Jul 1, 2015

Abulg1972 said:
This is the tool I found that is supposed to work on both the M1911 variants and the carbines. I contacted the seller and he said that he is in the process of making more.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/261867355109?_mwBanner=1

Yep, that's the guy

toolness1 · Jul 1, 2015

todbiker said:
czecmauseritis@comcast.net

I sent this gentlemen an email that bounced back and a PM on swissrifles prior to this thread and received no response......

Just realized there is a typo in the forum post I copied and pasted

it is czechmauseritis@comcast.net

I know he is answering emails because I just sent him an order for a custom leather cheek riser, and he emailed me right back (this guy does awesome leather work at a very reasonable price)

toolness1 · Jul 1, 2015

I found some VERY hard nylon rod and made myself some punches out of it and it has served me very well. It is hard enough to do anything a brass punch will do, yet it won't leave behind any scratches or brass marks.

I haven't touched a brass punch since, and I often use them in place of metal punches even for the hardest of jobs. It is some great stuff.

toolness1 · Jul 1, 2015

These are not what I use, but looks and sounds like it is the same type of hard nylon. For the price, you might give them a try

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FITS-GLOCK-...173?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d1f87f375

Not worrying about the punch slipping and damaging an expensive C&R firearm is a great thing.

I use mine for knocking off stubborn barrel bands, re-installing pins, knocking dovetailed parts such as a 91/30 rear sight base, etc.

Mine came from a long piece of 3/4'' rod and I just used a bench grinder to "mill" it down to different sizes and shapes for whatever job I need it for.

I highly suggest adding something similar to your toolbox

toolness1 · Jul 1, 2015

This looks like the exact stuff I used:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Pack-Nylo...194?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item259e1ea432

todbiker · Jul 1, 2015

toolness1 said:
Just realized there is a typo in the forum post I copied and pasted

it is czechmauseritis@comcast.net

I know he is answering emails because I just sent him an order for a custom leather cheek riser, and he emailed me right back (this guy does awesome leather work at a very reasonable price)

Thanks, that email went thru :thumbsup:

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