Patent ID: 6834457
Filing Date: 2004-12-28
Classification: F41G

Abstract:
A rear tactical sight for a semi-automatic handgun having a barrel and a slide which moves relative to the barrel rearwardly in a cocking direction to extract and eject a spent cartridge, and cock the hammer and then forwardly in a chambering direction to chamber the next round, said sight comprising a base extending in a longitudinal direction parallel to the cocking and chambering directions, said base having a back facing the cocking direction, a front facing the chambering direction, sides extending in said longitudinal direction and a bottom having a dovetail for interengaging with the slide to maintain said sight relative to the slide; said sight further includes a pair of spaced apart side walls extending upwardly from said base sides and a notch wall extending between said side walls and which includes an upwardly opened notch having a notch length in said longitudinal direction and a notch width transverse to said notch length substantially equal to said notch length, said notch partially defining boundaries of a sight line for said sight, said side walls and said notch wall having back surfaces which are contiguous with one another and with said base back and together with said base back forming a rear sight surface extending upwardly from said base bottom, said notch wall having a front surface and said side walls having inwardly facing surfaces spaced from one another on either side of said sight line, said inwardly facing surfaces and said notch wall front surface defining a clearance groove which further defines said sight line boundaries.