The Sins of Bubba

JB weld cleans up real easy if you deal with it while it is still wet. But if you JB weld it you won't be able to drift the front sight to adjust your point of aim. Might be a ##### to replace down the road if you decide you wanted a less bubba fix too.
 
You just need to shim underneath the sight to tighten it in the dovetail.

I've done it with aluminum foil. Fold a small piece to add enough of a shim that you can still tap the sight into place but leaves it good and snug.
 
burns k31 said:
You just need to shim underneath the sight to tighten it in the dovetail.

I've done it with aluminum foil. Fold a small piece to add enough of a shim that you can still tap the sight into place but leaves it good and snug.
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I’ve shimmed rings with aluminum shims from pop/beer cans as well, the op could also soft solder the base of the sight a bit proud and then file or sand it till it taps in snug. Pretty easy to sand clean to the white, flux and tin the bottom of the sight. Solder won’t stick to bluing so overflow or cleanup isn’t even a concern.
 
^^ This x2. You can also make brass shims from cut open cartridge cases and hammer/peen flat for desired thickness/resistance.

For temporary fix one could use blue/red loctite instead of jb weld. It will come of with a heat gun.
 
Burns, butcherbill, I think I owe you both a beer. I fashioned a shim from aluminum foil. Seems to be holding very tight. Will get it out to the range shortly.

Maybe I will blacken the shim with a sharpie.

Somewhere in Germany a gunmaker is rolling in his grave.
 
Make sure the base of the dovetail is flat and gently peen the top of the dovetail down. So it kind of pinches the sight in place. I did this on an old rifle at one point and it worked great.
 
conor_90 said:
Burns, butcherbill, I think I owe you both a beer. I fashioned a shim from aluminum foil. Seems to be holding very tight. Will get it out to the range shortly.

Maybe I will blacken the shim with a sharpie.

Somewhere in Germany a gunmaker is rolling in his grave.
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If the women don’t find you handsome, at least they’ll find you handy!
 
On Scamazon (twice as expensive, three times as late) you can buy stainless shim stock of various thicknesses by the sheet and by the roll. Tinfoil will compress and loosen. Alternatively, if you want to be a fancy Bubba and have some old feeler gauges, you can select the right thickness and cut out a shim.
 
conor_90 said:
Yes

Temporary fix to check the point of impact, then I can take a hammer to it...
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The Golden Rules of Bubba:

1) Never force anything. Always use a hammer.
2) If you can't solve the problem, get a bigger hammer.
3) If the bigger hammer didn't solve it, the problem is electrical.
4) Measure once, cut seven times. If it don't fit, hammer it into place. If it breaks, it wasn't meant to go there.
 
Working on sight dovetails and their inserts is hard to do unless the barrel is in a solid metal milling machine vise. I learned this from Henry.
 
Bubbas aren’t born, they are created from a situation. When things don’t go the way you want, look the way they should, when you need to start pounding, when it has the potential to become worse. Stop. And consult your local gunsmith imo.
 
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