[BattleRifleG3]

When contemplating freakish conversions, I thought it sucked that extending the barrel wouldn't extend the site radius. Then I thought what if you put a site on the front of the barrel of a tilting barrel auto pistol, like a 1911? Then you could just take off the front site from the slide.

Good idea, bad idea? Any pistols like this out there?

Walther P-38 and a whole mess of revolvers..but you've never struck me as a revolver fan BRG3

[Big Dog]

Several versions of pistols used for target shooting have the barrel-mounted front sights - Beretta, Walther and a Russian target pistol whose name escapes me, all based on standard small service pistols. Usually these are .22 rimfires but no reason you couldn't do it with a Wondernine or a .45.

[BattleRifleG3]

Reason I ask is cause thye barrel does tilt, but I figure duh, it goes back to the same place and fires in line with the slide, and taking a closer look at the Browning Hi Power target model, it appears to have a barrel mounted front site. I'm thinkin of a 1911 freakish conversion with an arbitrarily long barrel.