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Kyle

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I'm working on a short barreled rifle project and it currently doesn't have any sights.

 

I plan on using this rifle as a short barreled brush gun so I'd like to have sights that are quick and easy to line up and that I could make myself and solder on or something.

 

Any ideas on how I could make and attach sights on the rifle?

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Here is a rear peep sight I made. Lousey pics but they may help.

 

Here is the sightin its roughest form.

 

peepside.jpg

 

Then I radiused the edges.

 

Peeptop.jpg

 

First I machined a black of steel to fit the rear bridge, then machined a few pleasing contours to take away any sharp edges. Whether its a front sight or rear you must machine the bottom of the sight base to fit the contour of teh barrel. So, if your muzzle is .650 then machine the same radius into the bottom of the base. Of course, you have to acount for taper which is where the fitting comes into play.

 

Final product.

 

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Mike McCabe - Licensed Firearms Manufacturer

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Well, if I don't use something pre-made I will take a piece of flat stock roughly the width of the ramp i want, draw the rough shape, then procede to cut it out. Depending on how small it is, I'll contour one side to be the bottom where it fits on the receiver first before I get to cutting. Often I'll finish by first sweating the ramp onto the barrel then fixturing it barrel or barreled action in "V" blocks then cut the top so it is parallel.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I have heard it rumored that some are using Loctite Black Max glue to attach shotgun ribs. I have thought of giving it a go for mounting a mauser front site. Anyone else heard of using this stuff? :unsure:

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Nice sight, Z!

 

I think that Z has the right idea.

 

Make a big apeture sight up for the rear. Check-out the XS sight site for design ideas. After making the rear sight the front will be a piece of cake, but you're likely to have to make at least two to dovetail in: the first to figure-out your height, and then the second a nice shiny brass bead that will catch light in even low light situations.

 

Or maybe a fiber optic front? I've been thinking about how I can make a fiber optic front sight for my Hi-Power (I've recently fallen into the dark side of pistol shooting guys so I haven't been around as much - but at least I'm shooting classics like the Hi-Power). If I could just find a piece of plastic rod fine enough I'm sure that this would be an easy fabrication. I've been searching through the boy's toy boxes without luck....yet. Muah.

 

Regarding the Loc Tight sight on a rifle - I think its worth a try, but hopefully you'll find it if it flys off under rifle recoil so that you can sweat it on later.

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Don,

 

On that one I used the XS aperture/staff but now that I have a lathe with a collet holder you can bet I'll be making my own if I make anymore. I originally bought or was given an XS sight for a mauser but it requires you notch the charger hump. I thought that looked crude so I built my own base and sweated it on rather than D&T the bridge. Those apertures have real fine threads. Finding a tap will be hard. I looked far and wide but if I remember right it was darn near 72 tpi.

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I'd like to attach my own sights to my Gew 88 sporter project but I don't have the skills necessary to make my own like you did and there aren't any sold for it. Do you think it would be possible to use a bubba solution and use something like an appropriately sized nut soldered on as the rear peep site?

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