Front sight options for chopped LE?

[quinnbrian]

This is a good idea..no sense, cutting another one..

If you want, i have a few sporter no1 barrles. I could cut one to 20" and turn the end down to 14.5mm so you can install a factory no1 front sight. I just did this 2 weeks ago. You ship the barrel to me when i get trcking id ship the sporter barrel to you.... just an option. Or i could dril and tap and install a ramp.. in the hunting and sporting arms section you can see pics of what im talking about in a thread called " my LE (32 carbine) squrrel gun" it may be on the second page now.

 

[Suther]

You mention cutting back the length of the barrel to 19 or 20 inches.

The 'magic' length for the harmonics of a Sht.LE barrel in a sporter seems to be around 21 inches.

Cavalry carbines have a very similar barrel with regards to diameter and taper, they are 20-3/4 inches long.

Lee Speed sporters could be ordered with any length, but the catalog listed many of them them with 21 inch barrels.
inch barrel.

Just saying.

I have a bush gun with an 18-1/4 inch long barrel. It is loud and has an impressive muzzle flash at night!
Perfect for dogging deer where snap shots are taken close up and personal in heavy bush.
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This is the same one that has the soldered front sight ramp that I show.

Nice i like that. That's basically what I'm after eventually. I want to leave it a bit more than the 18" legal minimum incase i fkk it up and have to cut it a second time.

Do you have any evidence to believe 21" is an ideal length, or is that more a hunch based on the number of 21" sporters that used to be sold?

 

[Suther]

So if I shorten the barrel, I will loose a bit of velocity and my gun will likely shoot a bit low compared to now, so my new front sight will need to be a bit shorter, right?

 

[Ganderite]

If you solder on a base that takes commercial front sights, you can fine tune by switching sight heights. They come in a wide range of heights.

Lay your cleaning rod across the existing front and rear sight, and then measure the height from the barrel to the rod at the distance you plan on cutting. That is the total height your new sight will have to be.