update:
the sight did not mate to the dovetail as DF mentioned above. I ordered an optic today (mueller quick shot) and am picking up a sight mount from seastrike this weekend, so hopefully i'll get a chance to shoot the damn thing soon. once i'm certain it's a shooter, the rest will commence. i have a friend who's making some replacable grip panels for me, modeled after 1911 grips. got to thank both Dogfish and Seastrike for helping me out on this one!


willy
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