Anyone else have to adjust the front sight on there K98 this much?

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Shoots nice tight groups once i got it adjusted over there. I've have to adjust it so that the lateral slide the blade sight is attached to is flush to the sight block on the right side and hanging off the left side by about 1/8'. I think it might be because the collar the sight block is sitting on looks slighty rotated couterclockwise on the barrel. Can that coller be rotate back so the sight block is sitting perfectly at 0degree's on the barrel?

Let me know your email adress and i can send you a picture, for some reason there is no "manage attachments" box below to post pictures.
 
"...1/8'..." 1/8 of a foot? snicker.
"...rotated couterclockwise..." Hi. That'd do it. Something is definitely not right. The front sight shouldn't hang anywhere.
"...Can that collar be..." Not much of a Mauser type myself, but I believe you remove the blade and loosen the wee screw. Good picture of the front sight assembly is here. http://www.gunpartscorp.com/catalog/Detail.aspx?pid=6280&catid=11950
Good info with pictures is here. http://www.surplusrifle.com/mauser98k/index.asp
"...to post pictures..." Read the sticky. Under Newbie FAQ's. I believe Imageseek is free. Less fuss than buying a program like Photoshop to adjust picture sizes. Big pictures take eons to open a page for a dial up member. More of those than you'd think.
 
No it's a original german. Okay so theres a screw under the blade sight to adjust the collar?? well that should be easy then!!
 
"...to adjust the collar..." Loosens the sight base, I think. May not be exactly easy, but with the picture at least you can see the thing. Likely a press fit. M1 Carbine sights I know about. Mausers, not so much, for sure.
 
I asked because my old 308 yid rifle had the rear sight base soldered on & it was indexed badly. I don't think you can rotate the front sight base.
 
Sure can't on mine, anyway.

I would say the basic problem is in the bedding: barrel rubbing up against the woodwork on one side, making it shoot off. It should definitely be possible to get the rifle shooting with the front-sight blade almost perfectly in the centre of the sight block. That's how it was made.

Try taking the rifle apart, get the metal in one pile and the wood in another and start looking for a shiny spot on the wood, just off to one side of the barrel channel. That will be where the critter is bearing. Clean that out with a bit of 60-grit until the barrel floats enough that you can get a 5-dollar bill to run freely forward and backward in the barrel channel when the rifle is assembled to the stock.

Good luck, friend.
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Sounds like the sight collar is rotated on the barrel. They are soldered on. If you're careful you can heat the collar up with a hand torch and rotate it a little. After that the solder should harden up again as soon as it cools.
 
Very true there. Sight collar should NOT be rotated anything out of perfectly plumb. Chances are that it has had a solid wrench at some time or has been dropped when it was good and hot, breaking the seal. It can be re-soldered or, as previously suggested, heated up so the solder re-attaches itself.

If it's not that, then it's the bedding.

Good luck.

BTW, it would be REALLY good to have an idea WHERE people are; it would make suggesting a COMPETENT repairman just SO much easier.
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well i had it apart and when i put it back together i noticed the barrel had slight play in the stock so put 1 more spacer in so the barrel is very tight in the stock, to the point where i had to use a rubber mallet for 20 mins on it to get the front band back on, it was very tight, now the barrel is completly solid in the stock. I did not relized that it had to float?????? why would that make any difference in accuracy?
 
brunetp said:
well i had it apart and when i put it back together i noticed the barrel had slight play in the stock so put 1 more spacer in so the barrel is very tight in the stock, to the point where i had to use a rubber mallet for 20 mins on it to get the front band back on, it was very tight, now the barrel is completly solid in the stock. I did not relized that it had to float?????? why would that make any difference in accuracy?
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You do realize the band is not supposed to touch the barrel?
 
I did not realize any of this. It is very tightly squeezing against it. I hope i did not cause any permanent damage. Well looks like i'm taking it apart again lol. But would this really make it off 6 inches at 100yrds?
 
So is it indexed on not? To eyeball for index put a stripper clip in it, lay the rifle upright on a rest or put in a padded vise then look down the barrel from the front. If the sight base and clip line up it should be ok.
If the barrel has play at the lower band area, make a shim from a plastic yogurt container lid and insert it in the lower half of the lower band (where the sling attaches). Do not shim the front band, leave it be.
 
when i took it apart the first time it was the front band that was shimed. I took it apart again, adjusted shims and now the barrel floats the entire length. I can get a 5$ bill the entire length of it. I hope this will fix the sighting problem. I cut out a piece of cardboard and made it tightly fit in the stripper clip slot and the front sight band seems ok.
 
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