Boats Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Buying 80s vintage M41 with two barrels 5 & 7. Slide is drilled for and has Weaver rings mounted . Factory rear sights in the dovetails. Early tube style red dot comes with the gun, fits the weaver rings. Plan is remove the Weaver mounts both slides ditch the tube & run the 5 inch with factory iron. Like to add a modern reflex to the 7. Don’t know which one yet. Think my options are remove the iron sight get a reflex mount that fits then install a dovetail to reflex sight adaptor. Or if lucky find a reflex adapter drilled with Weaver spacing screw it with existing slide holes. That allows more forward mounting. Could buy a machinable base blank drill it matching the slides holes and profile the bottom to suit the slide. No alteration to the slide. Have profiled scope mounts before in the mill. Not full contact edges only barrel contact works on two mount Unertl style mounts CF rifles. Looking for advise on function, rear of the slide vs forward. Possible suppliers easy screw on option & machinable base. Tips on machining to fit too. Few I have done made it up as I went along. Last point, is there a factor to consider which reflex sight, bottom clearance buy base & sight same maker ? Appreciate all advise. Boats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tampa-XD45 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 6:17 AM, Boats said: Buying 80s vintage M41 with two barrels 5 & 7. Slide is drilled for and has Weaver rings mounted . Factory rear sights in the dovetails. Early tube style red dot comes with the gun, fits the weaver rings. Plan is remove the Weaver mounts both slides ditch the tube & run the 5 inch with factory iron. Like to add a modern reflex to the 7. Don’t know which one yet. Think my options are remove the iron sight get a reflex mount that fits then install a dovetail to reflex sight adaptor. Or if lucky find a reflex adapter drilled with Weaver spacing screw it with existing slide holes. That allows more forward mounting. Could buy a machinable base blank drill it matching the slides holes and profile the bottom to suit the slide. No alteration to the slide. Have profiled scope mounts before in the mill. Not full contact edges only barrel contact works on two mount Unertl style mounts CF rifles. Looking for advise on function, rear of the slide vs forward. Possible suppliers easy screw on option & machinable base. Tips on machining to fit too. Few I have done made it up as I went along. Last point, is there a factor to consider which reflex sight, bottom clearance buy base & sight same maker ? Appreciate all advise. Boats Check out these options: https://www.kkdepot.com/Product.asp?Key=1533 https://www.bme-mounts.com/smith-and-wesson https://www.jackweigand.com/swm41.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boats Posted March 24, 2022 Author Share Posted March 24, 2022 Exactly what I needed, thanks for the tips. Boats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runnin2live Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 That will definitely work. I had a older Colt set up with one of these. I did it before I had it milled to make sure I liked it. it did exactly what I wanted but I did find that the red dot was higher and didn’t feel easy at first finding the dot, being higher. Maybe it was just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boats Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share Posted March 25, 2022 Update, barrels boxed up going to KKDepot Monday. 41s in production about 1957 to current, 45 years, variations in sight dovetails. KK fits the adaptor to the individual slide. Never would have found him without help Thanks again. Boats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingmanjeff Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 I've got one of these on my 41 https://striplincustom.com/product/smith-wesson-model-41-90-degree-mount/ No machining or gunsmithing necessary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runnin2live Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 That looks like it would give a more appealing site picture than the bevertail setup I used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingmanjeff Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 On 3/28/2022 at 11:49 AM, Runnin2live said: That looks like it would give a more appealing site picture than the bevertail setup I used. Definitely gets dot down lower on the gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boats Posted April 15, 2022 Author Share Posted April 15, 2022 Barrels back from Klaus at KK depot. Very good job, custom made and fitted base for my Reflex sight. Boats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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