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ssgross a3 front sight post 01-05-2021, 03:22 PM
Doco overboard I would start simply by... 01-05-2021, 05:41 PM
browningautorifle That's what it looks like. ... 01-05-2021, 09:21 PM
ssgross There certainly is a key in... 01-05-2021, 10:28 PM
ssgross Yahtzee that was easy! Got... 01-06-2021, 05:51 PM
ssgross Just to convince myself I'm... 01-06-2021, 06:09 PM
Doco overboard Just a thought, when you peer... 01-09-2021, 09:13 AM
ssgross Just took a look down the... 01-09-2021, 11:19 AM
browningautorifle That would be all the barrel... 01-09-2021, 03:34 PM
ArtPahl OK, here's a thought: Why... 01-10-2021, 10:41 AM
browningautorifle I'd unscrew it and recreate... 01-06-2021, 08:23 PM
ssgross Yep. I was very surprised by... 01-06-2021, 09:23 PM
browningautorifle Looking forward... 01-07-2021, 10:31 AM
ssgross Well, Jim, you may have to... 01-08-2021, 11:03 PM
browningautorifle Don't think so. We used a... 01-08-2021, 11:24 PM
ssgross I've already got the barrel... 01-09-2021, 01:58 AM
browningautorifle Don't know about the shims. ... 01-09-2021, 05:53 AM
Salt Flat SS, I think you and Doco are... 01-09-2021, 03:00 PM
ssgross I ordered a 1.225 aluminum... 01-13-2021, 03:45 PM
browningautorifle You HAVE rosin? I thought... 01-13-2021, 06:34 PM
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ArtPahl I am wondering what is going... 01-14-2021, 01:50 PM
ssgross That was rough estimate. The... 01-14-2021, 02:56 PM
browningautorifle I'm looking at the rear sight... 01-14-2021, 04:00 PM
Doco overboard Theirs that much crush at the... 01-14-2021, 02:17 PM
ssgross Its ~6.25 degrees off. Which... 01-14-2021, 03:33 PM
ssgross yes. after disassembly and... 01-14-2021, 04:07 PM
browningautorifle I had an M1 rifle like that... 01-14-2021, 04:20 PM
ssgross I wondered myself if the... 01-14-2021, 04:30 PM
browningautorifle Good questions... ... 01-14-2021, 04:34 PM
ssgross I couldn't resist... 01-14-2021, 04:47 PM
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browningautorifle We used to use a steel outer... 01-18-2021, 05:46 PM
ssgross That's what I done. The final... 01-18-2021, 07:25 PM
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    Its ~6.25 degrees off. Which is indeed enough to notice when looking through the rear sight (drifted .127 left).
    For anyone else that finds this, the height of the "A" blade at 1.167 above the bore center.
    6.25 degrees is still a ballpark - this assumes the rifle was perfectly level when zeroing and not "canted". But we can figure out that case too.
    If it was canted, the rear sight base would have been on an angle. This means the "level" drift of the rear sight would have a lowerbound of cos(6.25)*0.127 = 0.1262ish. Using the previous calculation, a minimum for the amount of cant is ~6.21 degrees.
    If you skipped all that, my barrel is between 6.21 and 6.25 degrees over-timed.
    My grad. school advisor gave sound advice for presenting mathematics..."never ever do computations in public".
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    so no more than 0.0017361ish increase in headspace.
    Last edited by ssgross; 01-14-2021 at 04:16 PM.

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