PaulW Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 After 6 plus years of shooting an open gun I am now making the switch to limited. I am very excited about this new challenge. I just got one of Benny's Fat free 6" guns and it is sweeeet. Now I'm working on how I want to set it all up. It's got most of the bells and wistles but there is one thing I need help on. The rear sight is a Bomar style sight with rounded corners. In the past I have seen smiths do dog ears and angled corners. Does anyone know if anybody sells replacement leafs with one of these features? I could have my local smith do it, but just don't want to be down any time. Thanks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Burwell Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Paul, I haven't seen any replacement blades from bo-mar out there (and brownell's doesn't list any). Wilson you can buy replacement blades I don't know if they would fit a bo-mar or not. you could email bomar and maybe they would sell you a couple blades you could just send the blades to you smith hack up. Bo-mar's web page good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.40AET Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Paul- I have been interested in the same thing. I called bomar and they talked me out of wanting to take my sight apart. There is a compressed spring that needs to be put back in with a machine if it flies out. They will turn around a sight repair in one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulW Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 Hmmm...good info .40AET, thanks. I guess the thing to do is have a smith do it to a complete new sight and use the other one as a backup. Kinda expensive that way but sounds like the only option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Burwell Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 if you are going to buy a second sight might as well get the wilson that you can easily replace the blades and buy extra blades. You can experiment all you want and go back and forth without replacing the entire sight if you want to try something different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulW Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 Thanks danial97!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Boit Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Please excuse my stupid question (hope it's not ) but: What do you call Dog ears ? Is that any special shape of the blade ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulW Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 There were some blades that I have seen where the side of the blade was milled so all you had were two small dog ears. It would be like have a very narrow rear leaf, but the notch normal size. Hope that made sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Boit Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 That's it, Ok, I see what you're talking about. I already saw one but I thought this was "custom made". Thanks Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidwiz Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 EGW does the BoMar modification you are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Boit Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 I knew I already saw it somewhere, this is Benny's personnal fat free pistol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.40AET Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Dremel with a small round sanding bit and some sight black should get the job done. Bomar can replace it if it doesn't turn out right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehli Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 if you are going to buy a second sight might as well get the wilson that you can easily replace the blades and buy extra blades. You can experiment all you want and go back and forth without replacing the entire sight if you want to try something different. What he said. I've got a Wilson on my FF40 and replaced the blade with Wilson's pyramid blade. You can get a gunsmith blank to have the rabbit ears done, or have your original blade cut that way. Replacing the blade is as easy as removing the windage screw. Also, I'm guessing if it's a "Bomar-style with rounded corners" is that it's an STI... can you say broken hinge pin? If the rear blade is really wide (as wide as the slide), then it's probably a Caspian... repeat what's written above. Get the Wilson... you won't be sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry White Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Benny makes those cuts on the mill, be careful if you try it with a dremmel. Are you sure your sight is not a sti? It took me a while to get to like the relieved blade but now I have them on all the guns, I can just see more. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.40AET Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Benny makes those cuts on the mill, be careful if you try it with a dremmel. Are you sure your sight is not a sti? Thant's why I still have a square sight. I havn't looked at it in a while, but I thought that SVI is using Bomar for rear sights. Could be wrong. Myabe this winter the slide will take a trip to EGW for ear trimming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmittyFL Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Paul, where the hell have you been?? Going limited huh, I just got my open gun back this week. Going to stay with limited through the Nationals though. For what it's worth, I tried that rear sight set up and didn't care for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulW Posted July 17, 2004 Author Share Posted July 17, 2004 Hey Smitty, Well lets see, between changing jobs, getting married and the damn pinched nerve in my lower back, lets just I've bben everywhere except the range. I needed a new challenge....plus I'm only a master (LOL) in limited....I think the last time I looked I was at 70 something percent. Lots of room to grow and improve. I'm actually very excited and have a new goal. I have always admired those who could shoot a limited gun really well. You can't get away with as much sloppyness as you can with an open gun. But don't worry, I can shoot iron sights now.... so now I'll have someone to chase and you'll have someone to watch in the rearview mirror. See ya soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 In the past I have seen smiths do dog ears and angled corners. Does anyone know if anybody sells replacement leafs with one of these features? I could have my local smith do it, but just don't want to be down any time. Send cash to Erik Warren. I traded him an STI that Benny did the dog ear to for a stock STI sight he had. The dog ear was cool, but just too busy for me. May be perfect for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liota Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 I knew I already saw it somewhere, this is Benny's personnal fat free pistol. Julien, That gun shot like a dream. Benny loaned it to me with magazines for the Limited Nationals last year. It was nice. Liota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted July 18, 2004 Share Posted July 18, 2004 Yeah I've got it as a spare to my Bo-Mar on my backup gun. It's getting a new slide (hello BrianH?) with a Heinie fixed rear sight (hallowed be thy name) so I can see jettisoning the spare. (Want a whole slide with a Bo-Mar?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmon Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 buy a slide for its sights, now i have heard it all. might be a nifty way to sneak in new gun parts though. having never used a sight like that, i cant really say from experience, but i do like the way the standard bomar sight picture looks...although i cant really say the adjustable part gets used, i jacked the elevation up when i got the thing, havent touched it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkbrd Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Looked over Pauls new Benny Hill fat free limited gun today, that is one sweet setup, feels like a 5" gun in the hand. Nice machine work. Now he has me thinking about a combat pyramid rear sight? Welcome to Limited Paul looking forward to "chasing" you. I think that 100% bar is going to be going up around here. I still think I have the sexiest limited gun I have ever seen though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulW Posted July 25, 2004 Author Share Posted July 25, 2004 blkbrd....you do have the "BMW" of limited guns. :ooks like your adjusting to it well also. Look for you to start moving up in class now that you have a sleak machine that purrs. I am really looking forward to shooting limited class.....I can't wait to get past this back problem and start shooting again. Although the plain target shooting (group shooting) has been great lately because thats all I can really do. I am seeing thing with the limited gun that my mind and brain have not seen in a long time. Seeing the bouncing red dot taught me a lot, but watching the front sight rise, and knowing that it was a clean shot, checking the target and finding your eyes did not lie to you is an awesome thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric nielsen Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Paul I put the "dog ears" on my old EAA/POS 40cal and I wish I had not. At really high speed and on ALL my presentations & draws, there's a bit of confusion factor. Which means slow. Also prevents any form of "shooting out of the notch" because there's so little of a horizontal plane of the rear sight. I'm uncertain of the elevation unless all those tiny horizontal lines are in a perfect line. Any sort of color or dot on the rear sight also makes shooting blade-high "out-of-the-notch" kind of confusing. I agree with Brian's dropping his long-time fling with the triangular notch [wider at the bottom] again because having sharp, easy-to-notice vertical lines for windage tells you where your shots go with less uncertainty --> faster. As for low back pain, that has struck me this year BAD where before [i'm 39] all that would heal up within a week. Years of bad habits snuck up on me. PM me if you want any of the handouts my physical therapist gave me, I could copy them & snailmail them to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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