Chilean Mauser 1895 Ladder Sight Problem

Evening Gents,

I got a 1895 Chilean Mauser years ago, but there is a problem with the sight ladder. It never was important enough for me to fix because the 300 meter fixed sight is good enough to shoot with normally with, but I was cleaning my guns today and I decided to knock it out. Unfortunately I cant find any information on the complete disassembly of the specific sight or how it works. The problem is for whatever reason the sliding sight is sliding freely on the ladder without stopping at desired elevations, so if i wanted to set the elevation to say 1000 meters gravity would just drop the sight down as there is nothing holding the sliding sight on the desired elevation.

I saw in a disassembly of a spanish mauser that there is a special spring which holds the sight on the proper elevation, but there was no such spring in disassembling mine, only the spring which allows you to press in the button which changes elevation. i also looked through numrich and there doesnt seem to be a spring like that for the chilean mauser. Can anyone help me out?

Heres a video showing the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1NoK...ature=youtu.be

First thought: the slider is slightly bowed. If you PRESS it flat again - a machinist's vice is a good tool for this purpose - it may well be more stable on the leaf.

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Originally Posted by mr.mauser

only the spring which allows you to press in the button which changes elevation.

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Second thought: this spring should cause the slider to stay in position by pushing a detent into one of the notches on the backsight leaf. It sound like the detent element is missing. I do not have an 1895 backsight to check this out at the moment, but I think this is the general principle.

I think that is the wrong sliding sight or else it has been worked on. I just checked my 1895 and it has the spring clips on both sides, not just one. My sight used to have a similar problem but not as bad and I fixed that by bending it straight. The one side would not engage and because of that it just slid. Works perfect now.

The two sides of the sliding sight should be mirror images of each other.

This is not my sight but it is a photo that looks like my sight.

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../05/sm21-1.jpg

aaragorn,
early chilean mausers had just the one spring clip, later in production they began using both sides. i agree patrick there doesnt seem to be any detent, thanks for the advice im still trying to figure it out.

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Originally Posted by Aragorn243

This is not my sight but it is a photo that looks like my sight.

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Yeah, it's my sight and my photo. As in "property of....". I should start sending an invoice when I find my photos being used without permission :lol:

Dutch

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Originally Posted by mr.mauser

early chilean mausers had just the one spring clip, later in production they began using both sides.

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I always thought mine was very early production (B prefix, two-digit s/n), but it has the both side spring clips configuration, allegedly used in later production. So does the B prefix indicate late production? BTW: It is also very deeply blued, ...like a beautiful midnight blue. Other than that, it looks exactly like the 'copied' sight picture posted above (and re-copied below).

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo.../05/sm21-1.jpg