Can someone guide me in the right direction for a Dovetail Style gas lock front sight for a Norinco M14? I've looked every where and cannot find a metric threaded one. I dont like the HK style front sight.
Dovetail style Front Sights M14
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maple_leaf_eh
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I'd recommend chucking a Marstar ring sight in a machine vise and milling off the top ring. Weld something workable onto that surface and keep going. You won't find another Norinco gas cylinder lock for less than $399, but on the positive side you'll get a second rifle around it.
this?
http://www.smithenterprise.com/spec/GLFS_Retail.pdf
http://www.smithenterprise.com/products03.html
what sight do you plan to use?
http://www.smithenterprise.com/spec/GLFS_Retail.pdf
http://www.smithenterprise.com/products03.html
what sight do you plan to use?
ramhunter
CGN Regular
not what i'm after
i want to keep my sight radius as long as possible. so i want to keep my front sight near the flash hider, or maybe with a coast guard brake. but not on the gas lock. then i can put on a sight with changeable front blades.
guess it will have to be a custom build
i want to keep my sight radius as long as possible. so i want to keep my front sight near the flash hider, or maybe with a coast guard brake. but not on the gas lock. then i can put on a sight with changeable front blades.
guess it will have to be a custom build
ramhunter
CGN Regular
close but not what i'm after. the 3/8 dovetail has to be cut into the flash hider, the same as you would find on the end of a sporting rifle barrel.
not protruding from the unit.
i'll make one work. a bit of welding and a 3/8 cutter.
now to find someone who has the time and machinery.
ramhunter
not protruding from the unit.
i'll make one work. a bit of welding and a 3/8 cutter.
now to find someone who has the time and machinery.
ramhunter
maple_leaf_eh
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I don't quite understand where you think you will be able to mount your new front sight. The current position is within 1/2 inch of the current muzzle. It is the flash suppressor that extends forwards another 3 inches.
There is a way to extend the sight radius with a "bloop tube". Some target shooters with old eyes or mathematical imperatives to have round numbers for their sight corrections, install tubes on their barrels. The bullet flies down the freebore. From the outside the tube resembles a dreaded silencer even if it is just a cylinder. The M14 barrel had threads and splines already, so you could modify an existing flash suppressor and castle nut with a bloop tube welded on the front end.
There is a way to extend the sight radius with a "bloop tube". Some target shooters with old eyes or mathematical imperatives to have round numbers for their sight corrections, install tubes on their barrels. The bullet flies down the freebore. From the outside the tube resembles a dreaded silencer even if it is just a cylinder. The M14 barrel had threads and splines already, so you could modify an existing flash suppressor and castle nut with a bloop tube welded on the front end.
ramhunter
CGN Regular
i want to mount a different type of sight [lyman] in the same place that the existing sight is now. i just need the dove tail [female in the flash hider] reversed.
i'll get it done when i get my dovetail cutter.
ramhunter
i'll get it done when i get my dovetail cutter.
ramhunter
ramhunter, I think I know what you are talking about. I did it to one of my Sage's which unfortunately belongs to someone else now
Is this what you mean?
It is a Norinco barrel with a standard SEI Vortex and an Alley "Aperture front sight". It fits the standard dovetail on the Vortex as well as the Norinco and SA flash hiders so no need to get a cutter. Also comes with 6 aperture inserts. Brownells part number is 034-200-014AA.
Don't know about the Lyman but it beats the hell out of cutting a dovetail
Couldn't use the irons on the above setup as the scope bell was too large even with see thru mounts. Looked cool though
Is this what you mean?
It is a Norinco barrel with a standard SEI Vortex and an Alley "Aperture front sight". It fits the standard dovetail on the Vortex as well as the Norinco and SA flash hiders so no need to get a cutter. Also comes with 6 aperture inserts. Brownells part number is 034-200-014AA.
Don't know about the Lyman but it beats the hell out of cutting a dovetail
Couldn't use the irons on the above setup as the scope bell was too large even with see thru mounts. Looked cool though
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