Welded Rear Sight

[ChrisPer]

If you are refinishing why not swamp the barrel too, just for fun? Maybe an octagon taper to round and wedding ring, for a fast hunting rifle?

 

[petew]

Grind or file the weld flush with the flats, then drive the sight out. Sacrifice the sight when removing the welds, not the barrel. Now you can see just what you have, and decide if a fix is in order.
I expect it is not as bad as it is ugly and can be cleaned up quite easily. Those are small welds,quite far from the bore, and it should be easy to re-work the dovetail to new condition, or enlarge it to the next size.
Pete

 

[hornetk4]

I have to agree with Zonie about the barrel not being hardened , plus the weld looks like a very cold weld notenough heat thus little penetration.Grind the weld of and tap the sight out from the other side of barrel if it was affected by the weld it would be warpped set it on a flat surface if there are any gaps tween the barrel flat and the flat surface.just my 2 centz.

 

[hockeyref]

The Lyman's have the lugs for the wedges welded on.....
That looks like a real poor tack to me.... better picture would help but I doubt it's gonna be an issue.

 

[Huntin_Dawg1215]

Clean it up fill in the dove tail, put a peep site on it.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Took a file to it.

Fit a new sight **there is a peak on the base at the center, see white arrow, so the fit is much better then it looks in photo**

I want to test shoot it before working on triming up the sight & sanding the last of the slag off. As I was told here I worked unpluged :grin: Just files and when I could see meat on both sides of the old sight I hit it with a punch to pop it lose of the slag.

 

[necchi]

Atta Boy ! Well done.

 

[JJCASTINGS]

Nice fix. :hatsoff: