Mosin Nagant front site

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Are these adjustable? [other than filing it]

My Mosin shoots VERY high, a good 12-18"

Also - if it is shooting that high, I don't want to file it, I need a taller post, right?

[I have tried different ammo, different hand loads, with & without the bayonet etc.]

-thanks
-sean
 
12 gauge insulated wire.

Strip off a piece of the insulation, slip it over the old front sight post, heat it to shrink it on nice and tight, paint it black, shoot groups and trim it until your POA and POI are bang on.

Works great, non permanent mod of a milsurp, total cost: next to nothing :rockOn:
 
Or you could get an extra rear site and grind/ file 1mm off the bottom( not an exact measure, its more of a guess) , thats what they did to my pu sniper and it shoots bang on with irons. In my opinion that would be the better way to do it since you won't have a front site that covers 13-17" at 100m ( the original already cover 8-12").
 
thanks for the ideas, think I am going to leave the rear site alone, pick up a spare front site base then dill/tap that, and thinking a fine allen wrench threaded and ground to a point should be just the ticket.
 
stop, wait, hold the phone.... how does the pin gt in there in the first place? it's certainly not machined. is it just a heat fit? can I just pull the thing with a blow torch???
 
sean69 said:
stop, wait, hold the phone.... how does the pin gt in there in the first place? it's certainly not machined. is it just a heat fit? can I just pull the thing with a blow torch???
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Waittt dont hang the phone yet! First,use the insulated wire method to find the proper height you need to get your bullet were you want. After,drift out the front sightfrom the barrel then the post can be drifted from top with a small punch, after that you could probably make a new post,taller using a small nail then drive it back on the sight and put the sight back on barrel.

Joce
 
Just buy an aftermarket front site. Got mine with a target post, and I also got a second red fiberoptic post.They are threaded, so you simply turn the pin to adjust the height. Once you find the correct height, you tighten the post with a little inset allen screw. Works great. Ordered from the states for about $45.
http://www.smith-sights.com/
You can also get a rear globe site from these guys
 
svt1940 said:
Waittt dont hang the phone yet! First,use the insulated wire method to find the proper height you need to get your bullet were you want. After,drift out the front sightfrom the barrel then the post can be drifted from top with a small punch, after that you could probably make a new post,taller using a small nail then drive it back on the sight and put the sight back on barrel.

Joce
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so you can drift the post in and out... good news, logic would dictate that I can tap it up a mm or two from the bottom & just bring a punch to the range to tap it back down as needed.... save the drilling & tapping till I get more ambitious.
 
sean69 said:
so you can drift the post in and out... good news, logic would dictate that I can tap it up a mm or two from the bottom & just bring a punch to the range to tap it back down as needed.... save the drilling & tapping till I get more ambitious.
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Nope, because the post is seated completely from bottom up of the sight base. As i said, you could make a longer post(make it longer than needed) with a nail and reinstall the sight on the barrel. After you can file the post down until your impact are centered as you want.
Joce
 
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I used heat shrink tube. Trim it down to get to where you want.
Then worry about hammering out the sight, making a new pin, hammering the new sight back in, and then getting it back on target.
Insulation or shrink tube is much easier to modify to begin with, and will also work for quite a while.
 
I tried the shrink tube and wire tube deal and both were POS crap compared to the target sight I got from the states. Pay the $45 and get the site. My Mosin is now dead-on at 80 -125 yards with this sight. Or you can buy a scout scope mount that requires no drilling or alteration. It sits on the rear original sight. Add a cheap $60 handgun scope and some Weaver rings. You'll be able to put 5 rounds in a 5"circle at 100yds with this rig. Best part is it doesn't alter the gun.
 
sean69 said:
so you can drift the post in and out... good news, logic would dictate that I can tap it up a mm or two from the bottom & just bring a punch to the range to tap it back down as needed.... save the drilling & tapping till I get more ambitious.
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I have never been successful in getting the old sight post out of the housing myself, and I have an entire machine shop at my disposal. Instead I drill the sight post out from the bottom (it is thicker at the bottom than the top hence it is not able to push higher) and I make a new sight post from a piece of stainless steel TIG rod, which I pencil to a point. The factory sight is a) designed for about a 300 yard zero, and b) is so fat that it covers the whole centre of a target for anything that I have shot at.

I also make ball bearing release triggers for these since the trigger that is in that gun is a bear! But that exists as an old post....
 
Porschemann said:
I have never been successful in getting the old sight post out of the housing myself, and I have an entire machine shop at my disposal. Instead I drill the sight post out from the bottom (it is thicker at the bottom than the top hence it is not able to push higher) and I make a new sight post from a piece of stainless steel TIG rod, which I pencil to a point. The factory sight is a) designed for about a 300 yard zero, and b) is so fat that it covers the whole centre of a target for anything that I have shot at.

I also make ball bearing release triggers for these since the trigger that is in that gun is a bear! But that exists as an old post....
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I quite like the trigger on my mosin, you never quite know when it's going to go off makes it good anti-flinch training... :)

Anyway, tapped the sight off, drifted out the pin [no issues at all] and made 3 different length brass posts [filed to a point] it's a nice snug fit but I can still pull them with a pair of pliers so I'll just bring a file along to the range to fine tune em :)

guess we'll see how it goes.

-sean
 
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