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Any 1911 gunsmiths in or around Jersey City?

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Looking for someone experienced to install Meprolight Tactical Wedge night sights on my Kimber Custom Crimson Carry II. I'm hoping I won't have to send it to Kimber (as suggested by Caso's and a couple of other gun shops). I'm new to 1911s in general.. is there any particular reason why Kimber sights are so tricky to replace?

 

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Peter.

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Any gunsmith can swap out the sights. It's a very simple/straight forward task. Your gun should have the standard Novak low mount cuts in the rear and I believe those sights are made by Kimber. They should go right in with very little filing. I swap out sights myself, I have a sight pusher for 1911 but you dont' really need it.

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Scroll down this sub-forum and Tony357 did a tutorial on switching out KImber sights. Make sure you buy Kimber sights as they have a proprietary cut. I am going to swap out my front myself. Good luck regardless of which way you go.

 

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Thanks all. I didn't want to have to buy any sight pushing tools since this is probably the only time I'd ever replace one on any of my firearms... Or at least until the tritium runs out a decade from now. I didn't see Tony357's tutorial, I'll do a more thorough search later.

 

I called around and the closest place I found is NJ Firearms Guild. They would install for $45 (not cheap) and take a couple of days. Unfortunately I forgot to ask whether they just use punches or if they use non-marring sight tools. Or better yet, those specific to Kimbers.

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