Mounting sights on a flare pistol - suggestions please

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I have a Polish model 78 26.5mm flare gun. I would like to JB weld some sights onto it so that I can launch crack flares a little more accurately with it.

Can anyone please recommend some sights that would come close to matching the OD curve of the 1" ID steel barrel?

Thanks Nutz!

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Do crack flares have a predictable trajectory that would benefit from open sites? Or would a simple shotgun bead be appropriate?

They have a fixed range and predictable trajectory. A bead would help and maybe one of those magnetic Truglos could be JB welded into place.

I don't need pinpoint accuracy but would like to be able to reliably place the crack flare to the left or right of the bear I'm trying to haze.
 
You fairly handy with some basic hand tools? If so find some tubing with a 1" ID. Or even bend some soft 3/32 thick steel around a 1 inch diameter form to form the material to cut some bases from. Then hack out a couple of base "patches" and cut a cross slot in one piece and a longitudinal slot in the other. Solder a 3/32'ish thick blade into the front and a piece of the same plate in the rear. Glue or soft solder the resulting rough sights to the barrel and then cut a narrow slot in the rear with a jeweller's file and test. Adjust the rear to one side or the other with the file to compensate for windage and file down the front blade or rear cross plate as needed to set the elevation.

All in all once I found the tubing the hacksawing, shaping and fileing would take me about an hour. The soldering about 10 minutes or maybe 20 if I scuffed up and soldered the bases and stuff to the tube directly. Some touch up blueing to darken things up and yer done. All in all it would be a pleasant after dinner job if you're decently handy with some tools.

I suspect that given what you're doing this might be a lot easier and faster than trying to find stuff to use that does the same job and then paying for it.
 
Wouldn't that 3M VHB double sided tape be a better option, well neater and cleaner anyway?
Are the bears getting accustomed to the bear bangers already...lol

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I've launched a lot of pen crack flares as well as signal flares (back in the old days when we didn't have radios for talking to the helicopter pilots). I have seen a few pen flares split their cases on firing so I prefer to fire them from a pistol if the added weight is not a factor.
 
The red adaptor is a 26.5mm to 12 gauge from Frontier.

The 2 aluminum adaptors are 26.5mm to 15mm TruFlare CF (flare and crack flare) that I received from a board member.
 
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