SKS front sight adjustment?>

[Goozyman]

is there a way to adjust the front sight WITHOUT the specialised tool?

 

[lee]

Yes indeed, a vice, a punch and a big hammer

 

[easyrider604]

Yes indeed, a vice, a punch and a big hammer

Vice: $40.00
Punch: $3.00
Big Hammer: $10.00

Front Sight adjusting tool (at frontierarms): less than $14.00 shipped
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=358461

Easy, aggravationless, accurate front sight calibration: PRICELESS!!!

 

[laomao]

I bought a SKS front sight adjust tool from fabsport( http://www.fabsports.ca/) two weeks ago. The tool is cost $19 and $1 tax plus $13 deliver fee( I am living in vancouver). so it total coat $33.
The tool works very well.

 

[Curtton]

cheaper at tradex $15 .

http://www.tradeexcanada.com/index.php?option=com_paxgallery&task=table&gid=1

 

[JBD]

one fired casing to use as a punch for windage.

A needle nose plier for elevation. I have a tool from canadian tire that came in a screw driving set that has two forks for pulling nails. It fits perfectly.

However your rifle might be zeroed if it is russian. I had read in Guns and Ammo that an Armourer would sight in the rifles for the battalion.

When I took my rifle to the range in was very close to zero. Windage was perfect elevation was off by about 3 inches.

 

[Goozyman]

Vice: $40.00
Punch: $3.00
Big Hammer: $10.00

Front Sight adjusting tool (at frontierarms): less than $14.00 shipped
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=358461

Easy, aggravationless, accurate front sight calibration: PRICELESS!!!

thanks much for the info.
Time is the issue though

 

[Goozyman]

one fired casing to use as a punch for windage.

A needle nose plier for elevation. I have a tool from canadian tire that came in a screw driving set that has two forks for pulling nails. It fits perfectly.

However your rifle might be zeroed if it is russian. I had read in Guns and Ammo that an Armourer would sight in the rifles for the battalion.

When I took my rifle to the range in was very close to zero. Windage was perfect elevation was off by about 3 inches.

good to hear, my front sight is visibly off center so it may already be zeroed OR.. it may be really off..

 

[easyrider604]

However your rifle might be zeroed if it is russian. I had read in Guns and Ammo that an Armourer would sight in the rifles for the battalion.QUOTE]

Mine were were not even on 8x11 paper at 25 yards. Must be my astigmatism and nearsightedness. Zeroed now with the aid of a buddy's front sight tool.

BTW, the tools from Frontier and Tradeex look like robust designs, unlike my friend's which he got from Leverarms last year and have bent out of shape and un-useable after adjusting 4 rifles.

 

[Curtton]

even cheaper at frontier, $13 shipped .

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=358461

 

[medicstimpy]

Sears or Crappy Tire... 1/4" drive 6mm deep socket for $3-5 and cut a slot with a hacksaw... file smooth and there you go...