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Old 09-15-2014, 04:30 PM
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What style sights do the RIA's take? The TAC Compact specifically.
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I imagine John will have to answer this for you!
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I have one, they should be Novak sights.
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DrHenley, the older guns used a Novak "style" sight and cut but I have heard that the newer guns are using a true Novak cut and LPA sights.
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New ones definitely use Novak dovetails. A few days ago, I swapped the rear of my FS TAC with a Novak LoMount.

The front dovetail, while somewhat undersized, is also a Novak cut.
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I have one, they should be Novak sights.
After much digging and research and talking to RI when I bought my TAC II awhile back it turns out that they don't exactly use a Novak cut, it is similar but a bit smaller then Novak.

I have installed sights on two different RI 1911's on one I used a Novak cut sight and it worked but it was a lot of work to make it fit. On the second I used a RI sight form Dawson Precision and this one worked much better. Dawson cuts their sight's slightly smaller to allow you to fit them but it was pretty easy to fit.
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Good to know thanks! I want to upgrade mine or I'm just going to get some paint and paint them on
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