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The front sight post is definitely part of the slide and the back post definitely comes off there is a slide and spring and barrel combo on eBay that is listed as a 459 but it looks alot different the rear sight is much beefier and sturdier looking and the front has been hilighted with some sort of high viz paint but the decocker seems to be ambidextrous and it just has a bunch of if He minor differences not sure if it would fit my frame also it's 200+$ and that's almost as much as the gun cost me in the first place but as the front post doesn't come out on mine I was wondering if any body had a solution for that I can't tell if the eBay listing is a higher quality 459 or listed wrong or or modified at home if it's missed I'd be interested if any one knows how or has experience with painting the front sight post cause that's my main issueOlder model- Front sight might be cast into the slide
Pull the slide off and see if its staked in
Rear sight- You'll need dimensions and probably have to retrofit something in its place
Looks like there were 2 different type of rear sight options- Rear 1911 style combat like this and some kind of stamped rear target style like this
Drop-in probably isn't an option, but, if you had dimensions, you could compare it to something on here and fit it to work.
Ambi decockers were an option on the 2nd gen. From what I remember the dovetail was proprietary on the 2nd gen. Night sights were an option but rarely seen back then. There was only one slide style for the 2nd. gen.The front sight post is definitely part of the slide and the back post definitely comes off there is a slide and spring and barrel combo on eBay that is listed as a 459 but it looks alot different the rear sight is much beefier and sturdier looking and the front has been hilighted with some sort of high viz paint but the decocker seems to be ambidextrous and it just has a bunch of if He minor differences not sure if it would fit my frame also it's 200+$ and that's almost as much as the gun cost me in the first place but as the front post doesn't come out on mine I was wondering if any body had a solution for that I can't tell if the eBay listing is a higher quality 459 or listed wrong or or modified at home if it's missed I'd be interested if any one knows how or has experience with painting the front sight post cause that's my main issue
Thanks