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I've used the sights @Tom A Hawk linked, they cured a Pietta and an Uberti for me, spot on
Not much to file down on the hammer notch.You could also file the rear hammer sight down to lower the POA.
You will have a better overall sight set up if you cut a dovetail , mill out a patridge style sight blade and have some windage adjustment once you get the elevation figured out. You can cut a dovetail right through the original mortise and cover it with the base of the new sight."Mike or D Yager did what I did, open up the sight notch left and right for a better view. Then put in a taller front sight"
Me too.
Here's another idea I used on a Trapdoor rifle that would work just as well on a pistol for some windage adjustment , I milled the brass sight body off set .050 and it moves the blade laterally while setting in the centered sight mortise. I lathe turned and milled the front banded lug integral on this new Douglas barrel after threading, qualifying ,chambering and crowning it.You will have a better overall sight set up if you cut a dovetail , mill out a patridge style sight blade and have some windage adjustment once you get the elevation figured out. You can cut a dovetail right through the original mortise and cover it with the base of the new sight.
Every thing suggested is completely able to be accomplished with hand tools all the lathe and mill do is make it faster and easier.Most guys don't have a milling machine or a lathe. Agree with JimCunn about using the original slot. I also do the occasional barrel shortening job and hand cut the slot and reuse the original blade if possible. If some one really wants a dovetail cut I use a mill to rough in the slot and hand finish it.
Most guys don't have a milling machine or a lathe. Agree with JimCunn about using the original slot. I also do the occasional barrel shortening job and hand cut the slot and reuse the original blade if possible. If some one really wants a dovetail cut I use a mill to rough in the slot and hand finish it.
Vertical windage adjustment is a huge benefit for aimed fire on any fire arm and your only fooling yourself to believe otherwise !"You can cut a dovetail right through the original mortise and cover it with the base of the new sight".
You can, but it's a lot of extra effort with no particular benefit. Using the original barrel slot works OK and is quicker.
No the point is better sight function which can be accomplished with nothing but hand tool use. Every aspect of the suggestions made can be accomplished with precision by hand files , drift punch, hammer and and graver. And yes vertical as in square/ perpendicular sight alignment is key to any decent front sight installation. Other wise your sight picture is always subject to cross axis sight dysfunction which is critical to precision aimed fire.Vertical windage adjustment is a huge benefit for aimed fire on any fire arm and your only fooling yourself to believe otherwise !
Vertical windage?? Thought windage meant left and right adjustment. But HWWBTC has spoken. The point here is not everyone has machinery to do this kind of work.
Vertical windage??
And stupid .............. make that ignorance is forever in folks who refuse to learn !Usually referred to as blowing hot air.
Again you are making statements that make sense only to you. One always tries to keep the sights square, that's only common sense. My point was about using hand tools in place of machinery. Why do you insist on over complicating things? Did you work for the government? You sure have knack for taking something simple and complicating the crap out of it.No the point is better sight function which can be accomplished with nothing but hand tool use. Every aspect of the suggestions made can be accomplished with precision by hand files , drift punch, hammer and and graver. And yes vertical as in square/ perpendicular sight alignment is key to any decent front sight installation. Other wise your sight picture is always subject to cross axis sight dysfunction which is critical to precision aimed fire.
Some shooters are able to take advantage of this precision and others not so much but the function potential should be present on all fire arms of quality.
I was taught with hand tools and gravitated over time and training into machine tool use and hence have more flexibility and choices of what produces the best and fastest result. I still cut the final .010 when chamber reaming or fitting threads by hand with precision gauges. It takes two or three times as long to fix a screw up as it does to do it right the first time and I speak from experience ! The truth is though I learn far more from a screw up that has to be corrected than I ever do from the same work that turned out right every time. You tend to remember pain and success doesn't leave nearly as strong an impression as it becomes taken for granted.Again you
Again you are making statements that make sense only to you. One always tries to keep the sights square, that's only common sense. My point was about using hand tools in place of machinery. Why do you insist on over complicating things? Did you work for the government? You sure have knack for taking something simple and complicating the crap out of it.
Lo many years ago, a feller told me that. I thanked him and asked him if he was done complimenting me if that was all he had.And stupid .............. make that ignorance is forever in folks who refuse to learn !
Wow!!!And stupid .............. make that ignorance is forever in folks who refuse to learn !