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| flattrack38... |
 Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:59 pm |
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Anyone know if a special tool is required to remove the front sight
from a 10/22 rifle? I want to install military style post front and a
receiver mount rear peep sight. It looks like it can be drifted out
with a brass punch, but I sure don't want to damage anything. The
rifle is new, hasn't been shot, it's going to be a Christmas gift for
my son. After I wrote the check for it today, the gun shop owner told
me he no longer does gunsmithing, other wise I'd have him do it.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:33 am |
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On Oct 31, 5:59 pm, flattrack38 <flattrac... at (no spam) mailinator.com> wrote:
# Anyone know if a special tool is required to remove the front sight
# from a 10/22 rifle? I want to install military style post front and a
# receiver mount rear peep sight. It looks like it can be drifted out
# with a brass punch, but I sure don't want to damage anything. The
# rifle is new, hasn't been shot, it's going to be a Christmas gift for
# my son. After I wrote the check for it today, the gun shop owner told
# me he no longer does gunsmithing, other wise I'd have him do it.
#
If the sight's not going to be reused, you can use most anything as
long as it doesn't mess up the dovetail. I've removed most of mine
with a heavy lead-faced hammer and a brass punch, but a steel hammer
and punch works for stuff I don't care about reusing. Use a heavy
enough hammer, light ones will just peen things and make a mess. If
they're in ramps, I use the sight pusher, it's more civilized but that
doesn't work on rounded surfaces. The gun really needs to be on good
solid surface, I use a plastic bench block with a "V" in it. Pad the
bench top with carpet scraps or an old blanket to keep from scratching
things up. Since the barrel has a taper, unless you've got a vise
with fancy pivoting jaws and non-marking ones at that, you really
can't use a vise to hold things very well. Examine the small burrs on
the sight itself to determine which direction it got drifted in, drift
out in reverse, of course.
Stan
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:29 pm |
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I got it out by just hitting it with a brass drift that I made. Same
went for the rear sight (I was installing the Tech-Sights).
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