Meprolight front sight for SP101

[57Coastie]

Have any of our members had experience with a Ruger SP101 fitted with the Meprolight front sight which they might share with me?

http://www.meprolight.com/default.asp?catid=" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;{31F01507-1255-4BF2-995D-593CDA14EA5B}&details_type=1&itemid={96F9C882-6F98-4672-996A-1B9297A38B64}

Tks much,

Jim

EDIT You will probably have to cut and paste the above link to get it to work right and take you to the SP101 page. Sorry.

[57Coastie]

Have any of our members had experience with a Ruger SP101 fitted with the Meprolight front sight which they might share with me?

http://www.meprolight.com/default.asp?catid=" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;{31F01507-1255-4BF2-995D-593CDA14EA5B}&details_type=1&itemid={96F9C882-6F98-4672-996A-1B9297A38B64}

Tks much,

Jim

EDIT You will probably have to cut and paste the above link to get it to work right and take you to the SP101 page. Sorry.

I can now answer my own question, as I had the Meprolight tritium front sight installed on my Ruger SP101. In case any others carry this handgun, as I do, I will share my experience with it.

Topnotch! Particularly for someone who has his vision deteriorating, as does this old man. While the SP101 has a Crimson Trace laser installed, in a pinch, of course, one may need a visible front sight, and the Meprolight works. It takes the place of the regular stainless front sight and is exactly the same size. You do not know it is there until you look at it from the rear (at first I wondered what that little light was on my bedside table at night). I find the Meprolight makes the front sight loud and clear, most importantly in low or no light, and of course the front sight is the one that matters.

I would think that a gunsmith probably ought to install it for most of us, as a teeny-tiny lateral pin must be removed, the regular front sight removed, the Meprolight drilled and inserted, and the pin, or one similar, reinserted. I did not trust myself to do this will my tools designed for an automobile, not a Ruger, and a Gander gunsmith did the job for me overnight for the great sum of $25.

No substantial change in fall of shot. It groups right on top of the laser group, and neither windage or elevation had to be adjusted on the CT. Can't ask for better than that.

I honestly do not remember where I bought it on the internet, but it would have been either Midway or Brownells.

Hold 'em and squeeze 'em,

Jim