8.5” 870 with open sights – “The Coffee Break Gunsmith Version”

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8.5” 870 with open sights – “The Coffee Break Gunsmith Version”

Let’s start by stating the obvious..I am not a professional gunsmith ;)
This is a little project I decided to do in about 15 minutes one day during one Friday coffee break when I was bored. I plan to put open sites on my 8.5” 870 but thought I would cobble together a mock up to see if it would be worthwhile. I had an extra rear Remington sight, some JB weld and a broken Ruger pistol front sight insert, so I glued the rear sight on, fitted the front insert to the Dlask front blade and then made a mould to epoxy the front pieces together. The mould failed and I was left with an epoxy disaster…but that was ok because I had used release agent on the barrel (butter actually since it was an afterthought and handy).
Next was to clean things up a bit and then I shot it the next day to watch the rear sight fly off. I didn’t bother to try to form a ramp until I fired it to see how (if) the epoxy held. I fired 5 slugs through and it is intact so I can call it a successful test.

Anyway here are the pics, remember it wasn’t meant to be a professional or permanent job. I will be sending the gun for proper brazed set of Remington sights or may get daring and try the Mossberg Ghost Ring set.

Cheers

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I like the new inserts Dlask has for the +1s :) The +1s I have for my other 870s are a couple of years old and plain..I really like the design of these. I generally don't use the rear sling adapters with the regular stock though....I keep taking the skin off my trigger finger
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Tyler582 said:
Are the sights accurate? Looks pretty good to me.
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That's just because I kept the camera far enough back ;)
I haven't fired it for accuracy yet, maybe tomorrow I can get away and do that. I could put 3 rounds into 2 3/4" at 25m offhand with the front blade only so it should be better than that. For me it gives a faster sight picture and target aquisition more than anything.
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That is because you have that loop or slot on the wrong side. It is supposed to be on the opposite side.
ie If you are right handed, the loop is on the left side. If you are left handed, the loop is on the right side.
You might have one that is on the wrong side, like I said. Check it out and see.
Dlask has both the right and the left handed versions, they are about $18 or $20.









They also have the one with double loop, but I asked and those were only for a specialty pistol grip for law enforcement. I don't think they still have the double loop one, they were discontinued and they were $5 a month ago
 
22Short_Improved said:
That is because you have that loop or slot on the wrong side. It is supposed to be on the opposite side.
ie If you are right handed, the loop is on the left side. If you are left handed, the loop is on the right side.
You might have one that is on the wrong side, like I said. Check it out and see.
Dlask has both the right and the left handed versions, they are about $18 or $20.

They also have the one with double loop, but I asked and those were only for a specialty pistol grip for law enforcement. I don't think they still have the double loop one, they were discontinued and they were $5 a month ago
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Sorry my post was a brain fart on my part and not well explained. :redface: I have the left, right and ambi rear mounts and I did grate my trigger finger with the ambi once....but I switch the shotgun between left and right hands when I shoot all the time (often during the same COF) so about half the time any loop is going to be on the wrong side with the standard buttstock. To make it easier I either use a butt mounted web attachment that doesn't get in the way or no sling at all. I like the burnsed loop but it doesn't work well for me unless I go to the tactical stock, I have a specops on one gun but always end up preferring the traditional buttstock for some reason...I'm boring I guess ;)

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Ike , if i recall correctly you did your initial accuracy testing with just the pistolgrip . Do you have a buttstock on or still the pistolgrip ? I haven't put a buttstock on mine and i haven't really accuracy tested it but with half the front sight i'm on the money at 20 yards.
 
atr said:
Ike , if i recall correctly you did your initial accuracy testing with just the pistolgrip . Do you have a buttstock on or still the pistolgrip ? I haven't put a buttstock on mine and i haven't really accuracy tested it but with half the front sight i'm on the money at 20 yards.
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ATR,
I stuck the full stock on a while back when I was delivering some training and just left it on. The RCMP 'classification issue' is a PITA but that is not the reason I have the full stock on, I also tried it with a Specops as well for ####z and giggles. The chrono work and 2 3/4" group was with the full buttstock, I'll bench it probably this week or next weekend. With the Dlaks blade it was bnag on for me at 25m with 2 3/4" slugs but i had to focus on getting the blade down onto the receiver to avoid shooting high....that's a normal thing on all bead sighted guns but I had to be much more careful with the short barrel.
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Looking forward to your test . With half of my front site buried i'm on at 20 yards but i have pondered going to a rear right . Did you swap the foregrip or just take the cheese graters off ? I think that i read or heard somewhere that Dlask was making a new foregrip for these guns .
 
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