Backwards Sight

**frankderrico** · 08-17-2009 08:47 AM

Yesturday I was watching the E-Bay Q-RMC handgaurd sale. I got out My Quality to check out the h.g. It is as good or better, that was O.K. Then I started getting them all out to look over. I started to compare front sights and noticed this on my Inland that I got from CMP icon

as a barreled receiver a few years ago. I never noticed it before, Da.....Frank

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**JimF4M1s (Deceased)** · 08-17-2009 12:51 PM

I have seen rear leaf sights turned around before, but not a front sight. Pretty funny.

**jimb16** · 08-17-2009 01:42 PM

That is about the fourth or fifth one that I've seen with a reversed front sight. Not all that uncommon.....

**frankderrico** · 08-17-2009 02:09 PM

This one would have been done by the Military I'm thinking......Frank

**JimF4M1s (Deceased)** · 08-17-2009 02:28 PM

But who's military coming from CMP icon

?

**frankderrico** · 08-17-2009 02:35 PM

Jim, good point. I got this in March '06. I don't know if came from overseas, but was before the ones from Italy icon

. I guessed it was from the U.S. The CMP icon

had just receivers and barreled receiver at the time.....Frank

**JimF4M1s (Deceased)** · 08-17-2009 02:41 PM

If not import marked, then it most likely didn't come from overseas. Some markings are hard to see, other bold as day.

**frankderrico** · 08-17-2009 02:44 PM

Well considering I didn't notice the sight on backwards for over three years, I may have missed an import stamp also. I'll get it out and look......Frank

**frankderrico** · 08-17-2009 03:24 PM

I checked it out, no import stamps or marks that I can see on either the barrel or receiver. So I'm thinking this was done by our Military and I wasn't the only one who didn't notice it.....Frank

**thorin6** · 08-17-2009 05:41 PM

I picked up a Winchester barrelled receiver back when CMP icon

had received about a 1000 of what they described as receivers with bad barrels for sale. I was my understanding that they came from Guatemala. Although CMP said to consider all barrels bad (probably why they didn't even check the front sights), my Winchester barrel was in excellent shape (headspaced correctly and had almost no muzzel wear).

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