Removing #5 front sight ......again

[ikesdad]

Could someone point me to a thread here about how to get the front sight/flash hider off my #5.
The pins are out but that is one tough bugger to try to get off.

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[Peter Laidler]

Some of them are really tight but others slip off like the proverbial well worn sea-boot. Turn a short stubby nickel or hard stepped brass bar. 1st part slips into the barrel and the larger dia slips inside the flash eliminator but seats ON the exposed barrel face you can just see inside the throat.

Put barrel between blocks in the hydro or fly press and let it hang down, supported by the extended top (foresight) and lower (bayonet) areas. Load up press and it'll creak and groan and then just slide off. I suppose you could theoretically heat it up a tad if the mood took you but there's drawbacks to that.

[ikesdad]

Thanks Peter. My conundrum is that some bubba cut the cone just in front of the sight, leaving almost an inch of exposed barrel. I would like to try to save the sight itself. Heat would not be an issue since I will have to put a new finish on the rifle anyway.

[Peter Laidler]

Your conundrum just makes removal easier if I read it right. You ain't got the conical part of the flash eliminator to worry about. Just press the exposed barrel away from the foresight part

PS. If you aren't into originality, then I'd suggest that instead of the taper cross pins, that you align the new flash eliminator and accurately drill through the fixing holes with a small, say 1.5mm drill and then press in 1.5mm or so roll pins cut to length. Roll pins are a better more modern approach to the old taper pins

[swalker0806]

Thanks Peter. My conundrum is that some bubba cut the cone just in front of the sight, leaving almost an inch of exposed barrel. I would like to try to save the sight itself. Heat would not be an issue since I will have to put a new finish on the rifle anyway.

I know this post is a year old but I just bought a no 5 mk1 yesterday, where a previous owner cut the cone off, I've checked and can't even find pins to remove....we're you ever successful at getting your sight off?

[browningautorifle]

There are two pins ground blind and polished. If the rifle has paint then you can't expect to find them. You'd need a press after to get the whole affair off.