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Ruger 10/22 front sight removal?
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flattrack38
Oct 31, 2009, 8:59:14 PM10/31/09
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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.
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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sta...@prolynx.com
Nov 1, 2009, 9:33:18 AM11/1/09
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On Oct 31, 5:59�pm, flattrack38 <flattrac...@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.
# 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
Mk VII
Nov 2, 2009, 7:29:07 PM11/2/09
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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).
went for the rear sight (I was installing the Tech-Sights).
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