{"id":2141,"date":"2013-01-09T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2013-01-09T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T19:41:10","slug":"review-williams-firesights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"Review: Williams FireSights"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Buckmaster is a super accurate little .22 pistol, and I thought it was great out of the box except for really one thing: the sights.\u00a0 They’re your standard black on black adjustable pistol sights.\u00a0 The rear sight is metal and has both windage and elevation adjustment screws, which is nice, but the front is just a chunk of black plastic.\u00a0 I knew there were fiber optic sights out there, and I figured that they would be the best for a target pistol.\u00a0 I settled on the Williams FireSights<\/a>.\u00a0 The primary reason was because they sell a kit to replace both the front and back sights with fiber sights instead of just the front blade.<\/p>\n

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The sights come with a very small instruction sheet… and that’s it.\u00a0 Honestly, that’s fine since the installation of the sights are mostly “remove old ones, install new ones.”\u00a0 There is one extremely aggravating part, though.\u00a0 The new rear sight does not include the elevation spring or the detent pin, which means you have to remove them from the old one and install them on the new one.\u00a0 They recommend using a “small punch.”\u00a0 By small, they mean tiny.\u00a0 I ended up resorting to a paperclip… which was almost too big.\u00a0 Then came the job of prying out the tiny spring without it going sproing and disappearing forever, and installing it in the new sight with similar issues.\u00a0 Because of this, I would say that it completely fails Erin Palette<\/a>‘s “so easy, her grandmother could install it” test.\u00a0 It’s not necessarily a job to be relegated to a gunsmith, but if you don’t have good fine motor control, you’re going to have issues.<\/p>\n

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After installation, I could tell that this would improve things right away.\u00a0 It’s much easier to line up the three dots (red for the front post, green for the two points on the rear.\u00a0 Of course, this was in my house at night, so it was difficult to tell how it would really work on the range.<\/p>\n

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That was a couple months ago, and I’ve taken it to the range a couple times since then.\u00a0 I can tell you that the sights are a huge improvement.\u00a0 What surprised me was that they’re wonderful during our normal late fall\/early winter weather (read: cloudy to the point that you start to forget what the sun looks like).\u00a0 In truly bright light, the dots are easily visible but I don’t think they’re much better than painted dots.\u00a0 In the dark, there’s not enough light for them to really do their job.\u00a0 On a cloudy afternoon, they positively glow.<\/p>\n

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Bottom line is I would recommend these sights to anyone that’s wanting to put together a precision target pistol.\u00a0 They are kind of a pain in the ass to install because of the rear sight, but it’s worth it.\u00a0 The front post is still plastic, so I’m not sure how it would handle abuse, but for a range gun, it’s worth the $45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Buckmaster is a super accurate little .22 pistol, and I thought it was great out of the box except for really one thing: the sights.\u00a0 They’re your standard black on black adjustable pistol sights.\u00a0 The rear sight is metal and has both windage and elevation adjustment screws, which is nice, but the front is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}