Remington Pattern 14 canted front sight

[22SqnRAE]

Can we just have some images of a target punctured by the said rifle to work on please?

[browningautorifle]

Can we just have some images of a target punctured

Yes please...

[oldfoneguy]

Once assembled they were stamped at the same time in the same font however the barrel was stamped freehand and not in a form like the receiver so they look different. Yours looks like a different font than the receiver though there would be grinding marks where the original number was if it was changed. On my Remington the barrel number is sloppy like yours but it's in the same font as the receiver. Your serial number happens to be 210,000 higher than mine so there could have been changes made in those months. Going back to your first set of pics you can see a double witness mark on the receiver. Just curious, if the barrel was clocked to the unused mark would the sight base be true?

[browningautorifle]

Going back to your first set of pics you can see a double witness mark on the receiver. Just curious, if the barrel was clocked to the unused mark would the sight base be true?

I brought this up waaaaay back there but he challenged that the marks were just...wide... No, there's two. Here's hoping he'll shoot it before we make a book out of this.

[22SqnRAE]

Here's hoping he'll shoot it before we make a book out of this.

I doubt if I have the stamina to hold on that long...

[chexquest87]

I have privi 174 grain ammo for it. I’m sorry I don’t have time to shoot whenever- I’m doing my MA degree and I also teach/work and the nearest place for me to shoot is an hour away. I will shoot it this Sunday hopefully. I will get pictures up of the target as well. As far as the witness marks go- I am obviously no expert so it could be two of them, just up close in person it didn’t look like it. I will approximate how the sight would align if clocked to the other mark. Just seems strange that the barrel would be turned to the other Mark with the sight obviously canted, then have drift the sight blade over to compensate for the cant and stake it in place. Could be a crown issue as previously mentioned. Obviously some of these questions I will never have answers for. Such is history.

[browningautorifle]

I have privi 174 grain ammo for it.

Perfect... Don't do ANYTHING unusual. Just align the sights and squeeze...let's see where they fall together. If you do something we'll never know. Act like it's zeroed. Go with that.

[chexquest87]

It does seem though from initial inspection that the sight would be at least partially less canted if the other mark was used.

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Perfect... Don't do ANYTHING unusual. Just align the sights and squeeze...let's see where they fall together. If you do something we'll never know. Act like it's zeroed. Go with that.

Yes I will do that, And move forward go from there.

[browningautorifle]

the sight would be at least partially less canted if the other mark was used.

We shall see after...at least there's a plan.

[3006guns]

This may not apply, but.........

I have a Mosin Nagant (Finn) that shot a full 3' to the left at 200 yards. An examination of the front sight revealed that it was already as far to the left as the dovetail would allow. Thinking I had a bent barrel, I removed the action from the stock and was astonished to find the forend so badly warped that I couldn't get the action back in again! I transferred the action to a Russian stock and shot it again...........after drifting that front sight back over, it shot to the point of aim.

Lessons learned: A warped stock is difficult to detect initially, and the force exerted by warped wood is tremendous.