Anyone removed the entire front sight assembly from their sks? I'm going to try it on my chi./version. I believe it would vastly improve barrel harmonics & give it a clean look.My eyes need a scope anyway & on that note any thoughts on a more accurate scope mount than the receiver mount i'm using? its beating the crap outa scopes & has trouble holding 0 .
Sks front sight removal?
- Thread starter broadhead67
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- Fraser Valley, BC
Reciever or reciever cover? Get a Choate reciever mount and you'll never have problems again, reciever cover mounts are crap. As for the front sight, as far as I can tell it's just two pins then you reef it off, but my pins just won't budge. Even drilling them gets me nowhere. Try getting them out, but if you can't you may be relegated to cutting the front sight block off. I'm going to cut mine on both sides and split it off, hopefully without damaging the barrel
GENTLY, heat the front sight area and the bayonet lug with a torch, hot, but not so the metal is ruined. hammer the pins out, use a wood backing block for support. re heat, and gently tap the sight off. by looking at my barrel and the way its fitted,i measured there is just a slight taper to the front of the gun, about a tho or so. look like its press fit.
now there is more than one way to skin a cat, but i dont think that this requires cutting anything, even to those determined for this look.
now there is more than one way to skin a cat, but i dont think that this requires cutting anything, even to those determined for this look.
The barrel is turned down where the front sight base/bayo lug sits. IIRC it was just under .550" Once you get it off you'll have several inches of barrel turned down to a smaller diameter. If you do heat, apply heat to the sight base, not the pins. They will come out, just be careful. Check the SKS optics sticky, somewhere near the end I posted about an ejection window mod that makes the SKS eject straight out to the right side every time, instead of up.
