huntingfish
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- Quebec City
I'm running out of options...here's my story: All of which happens for my H&R Pardner Pump (870 clone).
I originally bought tru-glo sights: I'm not that great with sights. Took them off.
I spotted a Nikon p-tactical spur in the EE and purchased it.
Went ahead and got a weaver rail at a local store and installed it: Anxiously waiting for the Spur to get to me.
Once the Spur got here, I noticed it would only mount on a picatinny rail. Oh well, I thought. 10$ down the drain for the weaver rail...who cares, I'll just get a pica rail for my pardner.
There's a lot of stuff on the Internet, but let me say this: There are no more pica rails that fit a Pardner pump on the Internet.
Trinity supplies seemed to have some, and would ship to Canada(!), but unfortunately they are BO for another 4 weeks. Normally, I wouldn't mind...I'd order it and it'll get here when it gets here. But I have to manually go and try to purchase it every day until it actually goes through.
I called a local smith that does repair work for H&R. I thought their suggestions were weird (in the order proposed to me):
1) Take a rail for an 870, drill and tap 3 extra holes in the receiver to match the 870: 200$
2) Take a 870 pica rail, alter the rail to match hole spacing of the Pardner Pump: more than 200$.
I really want to use this Nikon sight...it looks amazing. But it's becoming quite a problem to mount it on my 250$ Pardner Pump.
I'm not sure what gunsmiths charge per hour...did they simply not want to take the job and quote me a super high amount for the work hoping I'd say "forget it" or is that the going price for such work?
The hole spacing seems to be as follows (3 holes total):
1 and 2: 1.300"
2 and 3: 1.000"
I was thinking there's probably a small pica rail that exists that mounts with 2 screws spaced exactly 1" apart. But as much as I searched, I couldn't find one.
Failing that, is there an undrilled pica rail that could be bought and then machined? Could a normal machinist do the job if he's careful with the attention to details, etc?
I even went as far as check to see if there was an adapter of some sort that I could put on the weaver rail and get a single slot picatinny: Just enough to be able to mount my reflex sight! Doesn't appear to exist.
As a last ditch thing, I could always get a shotgun scope mount that mounts with the receiver pins...but that looks bulky. Are those any good? More expensive too.
Final option is to simply sell the Nikon Spur and get a TRS-25. But I'm hoping it won't get there. I even saw a guy that machined a weaver slot to accept picatinny rings (video of a reloader).
Help me sort this out! Cheers everyone for any help ;-)
David
I originally bought tru-glo sights: I'm not that great with sights. Took them off.
I spotted a Nikon p-tactical spur in the EE and purchased it.
Went ahead and got a weaver rail at a local store and installed it: Anxiously waiting for the Spur to get to me.
Once the Spur got here, I noticed it would only mount on a picatinny rail. Oh well, I thought. 10$ down the drain for the weaver rail...who cares, I'll just get a pica rail for my pardner.
There's a lot of stuff on the Internet, but let me say this: There are no more pica rails that fit a Pardner pump on the Internet.
Trinity supplies seemed to have some, and would ship to Canada(!), but unfortunately they are BO for another 4 weeks. Normally, I wouldn't mind...I'd order it and it'll get here when it gets here. But I have to manually go and try to purchase it every day until it actually goes through.
I called a local smith that does repair work for H&R. I thought their suggestions were weird (in the order proposed to me):
1) Take a rail for an 870, drill and tap 3 extra holes in the receiver to match the 870: 200$
2) Take a 870 pica rail, alter the rail to match hole spacing of the Pardner Pump: more than 200$.
I really want to use this Nikon sight...it looks amazing. But it's becoming quite a problem to mount it on my 250$ Pardner Pump.
I'm not sure what gunsmiths charge per hour...did they simply not want to take the job and quote me a super high amount for the work hoping I'd say "forget it" or is that the going price for such work?
The hole spacing seems to be as follows (3 holes total):
1 and 2: 1.300"
2 and 3: 1.000"
I was thinking there's probably a small pica rail that exists that mounts with 2 screws spaced exactly 1" apart. But as much as I searched, I couldn't find one.
Failing that, is there an undrilled pica rail that could be bought and then machined? Could a normal machinist do the job if he's careful with the attention to details, etc?
I even went as far as check to see if there was an adapter of some sort that I could put on the weaver rail and get a single slot picatinny: Just enough to be able to mount my reflex sight! Doesn't appear to exist.
As a last ditch thing, I could always get a shotgun scope mount that mounts with the receiver pins...but that looks bulky. Are those any good? More expensive too.
Final option is to simply sell the Nikon Spur and get a TRS-25. But I'm hoping it won't get there. I even saw a guy that machined a weaver slot to accept picatinny rings (video of a reloader).
Help me sort this out! Cheers everyone for any help ;-)
David
