SKS Front Sight Canted?

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My Para SKS has a Choate mount + Bushnell TRS25 and this combo works great (1.75" groups @ 75 yards with both Privi Partisan and Hornady SST) but my front sight (or rear?) has been set up canted (I think?). While zeroing the open sights, I have had to adjust the front sight as far right as possible to hit center of mass at 100m (bullets were hitting wayyy right). Is the SKS front sight assembly able to be moved left/right to make major adjustments? I see that there is a pin at the base of the front sight, so maybe if I tap this out I could move the front sight , then I would be able to have the front sight post more centered rather than way to the right. It works as is, but is a bit annoying. :confused:
 
Aaahhhh.... I see I'm not the only person with this issue.

In fact, I found this to be a problem with a brand new VZ 858 I purchase last year. I sent it in for warranty work and they sent it back after testing it and said there was nothing wrong. Got it back with the front sight re-centered.

Last week I had it out for the first time since getting it back and found once more I had to put adjust the sights waaaaaay over to bring it into center at 100m. It was shooting about 8-10" left at the time.

On top of this, and to the point of the OP, I had a newly purchased 1952 Tula SKS refurb out at the range for the first time the same day. I found exactly the same issue with this rifle, but not quite as bad as the VZ.

I also had the same issue with a CZ 452 Lux .22 that I purchased a few years ago. They all seem to have the same problem. Adjustable to a workable setting, but I have to agree, it's annoying as hell. I've really been wondering if maybe my eyeballs are out of alignment.

Sorry I can't offer any help, but I've been having the same problem on a few rifles now and I really don't know if I'm totally inept and there's something totally obvious that I'm missing or if rifles these days are all just built like crap. FWIW, I did have a buddy at the range and handed him both the VZ and SKS to try out and he got exactly the same results.

Standing by for some advice on this one myself.
 
Good. Makes me feel better that I wasn't hitting the targets at 100yrds. The 50 wasn't useable. So
I will go back another day and sight it in at a shower distance and work my way back.
 
I have done "the google" and it would appear that I could tap out the pin and then try to rotate the front sight assembly. I'm picking that the Chinese "technicians" at the factory do not worry too much about aligning the front & rear sights. Next step, take my Para SKS to a gunsmith and see what he reckons.
 
Probably d+t crooked? Perhaps the drum can be driven out and replaced with a straight one? Or is it the whole front sight assembly? Harold
 
I believe it is the whole assembly. I have never had this problem with open sights on other firearms (non military) so it must be a quality control issue at the factory.
 
There is a sks sight alignment tool , that let's you move the front up and down as well as side to side . It makes it real easy to adjust , but I must admit if the sight was all the way right or left it would bug the crap out of me ! ( must be my OCD ! Lol )
 
Yup- I've got that sight tool. The front sight drum & post have been pushed as far right as possible with it- while my open sight are my back up (see my first post for the set up) I would love to have the front post somewhere closer to the middle of the front sight hood instead of crammed to the right. If the whole assembly could be rotated I am sure that this would solve the problem. It would not take a big adjustment, but it sounds like a gunsmithing job to me.
 
I hate the SKS sights. The rear blade sight is the worst. I too had to move the front post all the way to the right. I changed out the rear blade to a peep sight and because of the design of the front sight, that made the front sight hood visible in the peep sight, which I hated because the rear peep hole didn't look like a circle any more and it was harder to center the front sight post.

Guns should be a joy to shoot, otherwise what's the point?
 
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