Does anyone recognize this front sight? AFAIK it should be a Baughmann ramp.
Does anyone recognize this front sight? AFAIK it should be a Baughmann ramp.
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It looks like it used to be a Baughman ramp until someone filed/machined most of the ramp off. I've never seen a M28 with those pins, might be an early one. It's obviously got some miles on it.
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Thanks! The pins are throwing me as well. I thought the original might have been replaced with a base for a target sight or something.
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I'd speculate it was originally a Patridge sight someone rounded to keep from cutting leather with each draw.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure the double pins were used on the S&W windage adjustable front sights but obviously that isn't one. Changed base might be a good guess though.Originally Posted by awp_101
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I've seen the dual pins on several N-frames and pre-N frame 38/44's. I had a 4" no-dash M28 that had the dual pins with the standard ramp. Sometimes the pins are left domed like the pins in the picture above, other times they're filed flush and polished to the point that it is difficult to locate where the pins are; for example, I have a 3.5" Model 27-2 that has a replacement gold bead front sight and the two sight pins can be seen because whoever replaced the sight didn't take the time to blend them into the sight base like S&W did at the factory.
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