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I'd like thinner grips but I'm not that fond of aluminum. Does anybody make a thinner checkered grip in wood or rubber?

Inquiring minds want to know. How about a pic of the new sight?

I have a Match .40 with the original rubber grips and it's a little too thick for my puny hands. I'm considering the factory aluminum grips but I really like the look of checkered walnut. Anybody out there with factory walnut grips that knows how thick the grip frame is with the grips installed?

Is this a made from scratch sight or an adaptation of an existing commercially available sight? Got any pics?

Thanks but I'm looking for checkered grips. Are the grips you're getting from Henning the oem EAA wood grips? If so, I'd appreciate the grip thickness when you get the new grips. The std rubber grips are .25" thick.

I have a large frame Match .40 and I'm thinking of switching to checkered wood grips. Does anyone know how thick the EAA wood grips are? I'd like to get a little thinner than the rubber grips and dress up the looks at the same time. Anybody got a set of EAA wood grips they'd like to part with?

That looks very interesting. I've used the "tube type" red dots on rifles and pistols but not the Docter type. How well does it work compared to iron sights? Did your smith make a custom base for the sight or just attach it directly to the slide?

Gotta love the Dremel, the poor man's machine shop. My Hi-Power, S&W 41 and one of my 1911s all have Milletts. It's a good sturdy sight with a proven record of performance and reliability. Nice job!

I'm no gunsmith but no one else is answering so I'll chime in. I have Milletts and Bomars on several of my autoloaders and have a fondness for both sights. The Bomar certainly looks more robust than the Millett but that may just be appearance alone. I put a Millett on my Match because I didn't want to mill the slide. I think a Bomar would be more difficult. The Bomar's base is only about .36" wide and the dovetail cut on the Match is about .47" so it's not going to be a matter of just enlarging the dovetail slot and milling down the top of the slide to make it fit. If you remove the existing dovetail slot (.17" deep) by milling you'll run out of slide to cut your new dovetail into. The only I way can see to do it is to fill the existing slot by welding and start over to cut a new dovetail to fit the Bomar. Alternatively you could use the Bomar BMCS sight which was made with a flat bottom (no dovetail) and then mill the top of the slide flat (removing the existing dovetail) and install the sight as Bomar intended using silver solder or screws to attach the sight to the slide. Bomar is long out of business so a BMCS flat sight may be hard to come by but you could modify the sight you have on hand by removing the dovetail base and, effectively, create a flat bottom sight. The BMCS flat sight also required you to drill and tap a hole (6/48 thread) into the top of the slide for the elevation screw on the sight. One other thing to consider: no one seems to make a taller front sight for the Witness: if your installed Bomar is taller than the original LPA sight you're going to have to manufacture a new front sight. One of my 1911s has a Bomar melted into the slide and it makes for a really nice sight picture. A Bomar on a Witness would be a very interesting project. Please provide photos when you're done. Good luck. Dave.

The sight is a Millett adjustable intended for a Ruger Mk I but it's far from plug & play. The stock Witness dovetail is approximately .463" wide and .140" deep. The Ruger dovetail is .553" wide but only .090" deep. To make the Ruger work, I first silver soldered a .050" steel spacer to the bottom of the Ruger sight to give it the required height. Then I drilled thru the Millet set screw holes and thru the pad and threaded the holes using a 5/40 tap so the set screws would screw all the way thru both the original Millett sight and the attached pad. After that I trimmed down the overall sight base to the Witness dimension (.463") using a dremel grinder, needle files, and frequent measurements with a micrometer and trial fitting on the Witness slide. After installation the Millet sight is about .13" higher than the oem LPA sight. That means you also will need a taller front sight to compensate for the higher rear. I made my own out of bar stock but I'm hoping to find a serrated or fiber optic sight the right height and add that later. I looked for other possible rear sights as possible donors but the Ruger was the only one wide enough for the Witness dovetail cut. Most other auto pistols have a rear dovetail cut between .25" and .40". I bought my Millet sight off Gunbroker for about $30 delivered but they're widely available from a host of retailers for $50-$60.

My Match .40 with a Millett rear sight modified to fit in the stock Witness dovetail. I also installed a DIY taller front sight to compensate for the higher Millett rear. I haven't been to the range yet but, if my calculations are correct, it should shoot to point of aim with the taller front sight. I didn't like the oem small LPA rear sight and I didn't want to modify the slide unnecessarily. Everything is DIY with a Dremel tool and needle files.

Don't overlook the Dillon Square Deal. It's cheaper than the 550 or 650 and probably just as fast. The only downside I've seen is that it's a "pistol caliber" only press so you're limited in what you can reload. Dillon's lifetime guarantee is hassle free. If something breaks they fix it fast and free.

I removed the stock front sight and it's actually about .175" high. The Millett rear sight (because its pivot point is fwd of the dovetail cut) must be mounted a little higher than the stock LPA sight to clear the slide. This will require a front sight at least .275" high to zero the sights. I've already made one to fit but I'd prefer a nice serrated front to reduce the glare on the sight. Did Tanfoglio use the same front on the old Supersight that they're using now?

I'm converting a Millett rear sight to fit my Witness match and I need a taller front sight. Does anybody sell a front sight for the Witness that's taller than the stock .15" sight or am I going to have to fab my own?

Good luck on your quest. Do you have the supersight or the newer small LPA rear sight? Mine has the LPA sight and the rear dovetail is an odd size. I tried to find out the dovetail size from EAA and Tanfoglio without any success. I finally measured it myself and this is my best guess: .140" deep, .464" wide with the sides cut at approximately a 70 degree angle. This is considerably larger than any other semiauto I could find with one exception: the Ruger Mk I/II/III target pistols have a dovetail approximately .550" wide; however, the dovetail is shallower being only about .090" deep. I'm in the process of modifying a Millett Ruger rear sight to fit my Witness but it will require silver soldering a pad on the bottom of the sight base and then removing about .010" from the sides of the dovetail base to make it fit. I've done this before on other pitols and it's not that tough using a Dremel tool and frequently checking for fit. I don't know if Docter or Fastfire make a Ruger mount but if they do that will be your best bet. Alternatively, you can get your friendly gunsmith to make a mount from scratch.