At last: target sights on my No.4 (pic heavy)

[stevebc]

I won't say I'm finished with this project, but at least I've got the Central sight and the nameless foresight installed. You can see I had to modify a standard sight base to accept the sight base for the foresight, so after I'd taken the base down to pretty much a ring, the local machine shop turned it down to fit inside the foresight base:

It all went together quite well, the only difficulty was getting the sight band pin back in place, but some careful file work cured that. The tunnel sight is meant for that base, and both came of my .308 when I went to F-class. I should point out that the larger base is made of very lightweight aluminum.

Here's the other end, with the Central No4. plate and it's matching sight. I used a spirit level to get the plate and sight perpendicular to the receiver. It took some careful fiddling with the bushing on the bottom of the plate, but I've eliminated "cant" as best I can:

I'm waiting on some headspace gauges, and hope to have it out soon. I've already loaded up my first ladder test: starting at 38.0gr of Varget and going to 41.9. I'm using new Win brass, CCI BR2 primers, and SMK 174gr HPBT.

 

[woodchopper]

Ahhh... I was wondering how you were going to do this.

I have that ugly bubba FSB still, I was thinking of machining it flat and just spot welding on enough to drill and tap. Now I have another ideal to work with

Nice job by the way.

 

[stevebc]

Thanks! I also bought an AJ Parker #2 foresight (still looking for inserts, btw), and had another sight base cut down and a dovetail added to accept the AJP. I haven't tried it out yet, and if the system I've now got works out, I'll likely sell the Parker and it's base. I just wanted to have an alternative if I couldn't get this system worked out. The thing being that I have inserts for the foresight it's now wearing, but none for the AJP.