No, not a Ford Mustang, but my little Colt Mustang +2.
About 2 months ago, I took her in to have night sights installed. Here she is before the rework:
Those sights were so small I had a real hard time hitting a target. So I took her down to my local gunsmith, and he installed these XS night sights.
These sights work great at night, with a large dot of a frontsight, that you place on top of, and slightly above the bottom of the V of the rear sight. The night part of the rear sight is a vertical line that you place the large dot of the front sight just above. After nearly a month, I'd finally gotten her back from the gunsmith, who is really good so I want to keep things cool, but found that the firing pin had somehow gotten bent. It would stick in the firing pin hole after firing. Since, on a 1911, the rear of the firing pin holds the small retaining plate in place that intern holds in the fring pin and spring and extractor, I found that after a round, the slide would just fall apart.
Being that Colt discontinued the Mustang several years ago, trying to find parts was no easy task, and the gunsmith said it wasn't his problem, but would be happy to order one for me, for a price.
So, I hit the internet and found a place that only takes orders via phone, thats fine with me, and I ordered a pair of pins and the springs. Now I have a back up if it gets bent again. Any way, it took me about 3 weeks to find this place, Jack First Gunshop,
http://www.jackfirstgun.com/order.php but I have to admit, that they are fast. I got the part last Wednesday, and finally got it out to the range today.
Personally, I'm not so wild about the sights. Putting a big dot in the valley of a shallow V, and on top of a vertical line is just not that intuitive for an old guy like me who's spent decades with big square notches and ramped front sights. However, with some pactice, I can see how it might prove to be faster.
With the rear sight being a wide shallow V you don't loose as much of the target as you do sighting through a more traditonal sight. In competitive combat pistol shooting, I've known some who've removed the rear sight completely to give a faster sight alignment. But, I've only fired 22 rounds through it since getting the new firing pin, so it'll take some more practice to get it where I need to be.
Just the hits inside the green circle, and 7 rds of the 22 were fired at other targets.
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