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07-31-2010 03:16 PM
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Twice this week I too have had the same problem. Both times the front sight was loose and moving on recoil. It was driving me crazy until the sight fell off making the problem obvious.
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Attachment 14582Thanks for your response, Stumedic. I'm feeling rather stupid this morning after getting the garand out for another look, only to find the front sight on the verge of falling off. Can't believe I didn't think of that at the range.
Oh well, it could just be senility.
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Thank You to kikokat For This Useful Post:
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(M1 Garand/M14/M1A Rifles)
I shot an entire weekend clinic of three-position with my scores ruined by a drifting front sight. The first day I was working up to a great score and my technique was really improving when all of a sudden I couldn't get the bullets to go where I wanted to save my life. That night, while cleaning the weapon's muzzle (not an M1), I felt the front sight shift. Marvelous. Lock-tited the set screw and considered the problem over.
The next day I started strong and then as I began to really drill in, my scores went to hell in a hand basket again. Of course, because of all my work with the sight the night before and my confidence in my fix, I couldn't consider the problem to be the same one. Doh! That night, dispirited with my scores, I was cleaning the rifle again and discovered that the silly sight was loose again even though the set screw was good and tight. No matter how hard I torqued down the screw, the sight could still move. I ended up making a shim that tightened down the tolerances.
I'm a little surprised that none of the instructors figured this out. Oh well.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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