Will RS Sights Fit on Airsoft GBB's?

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Will RS Sights Fit on Airsoft GBB's?

Postby vibora » Tue Dec 07, 2010 5:58 pm

I just bought a WE Kimber Warrior in the hopes that I could turn it into a Stainless Kimber TLE/RL (my favorite handgun ever). The finish sucks, which is why I'm taking it off, but the sights are my main problem. Real ramped Kimber sights can be had for ~$50, and I wanted to put a set on my 1911 to get the gun as exact as possible. However, when I compared my gun to a real Kimber, the cuts in the slide for the sights are totally different.
Has anybody ever tried to do this conversion (even on a different gun)? How much custom cutting would be involved in something like this? Do the screw holes for the sights even match up?
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Postby CalvinB » Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:33 pm

Just don't do it, RS sights are designed to fit into fairly precise dovetail groves in a steel slide not aluminum, so the dimensions are probably not going to be 100% right which will make it so they eff up your slide, or simply fall out. Also sights are designed to be pressed in, so you'll need a 1911 style sight tool, and those are $$$.
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Postby Nocte » Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:34 pm

I have real steel sights on my KWA Glock19. The front one was kind of loose so I glued it in, and the rear one fit perfectly.
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Postby CalvinB » Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:02 pm

Nocte wrote:I have real steel sights on my KWA Glock19. The front one was kind of loose so I glued it in, and the rear one fit perfectly.


Yeah, but doesn't your M14 has an RS stock too?
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