Drifting front sight M1917

[trosturleo]

Hey I've been wandering around this forum for a couple of months now and it has helped me alot with my milsurps so thanks for that I couldn't find a thread that answered my question about the 1917 so here goes.

I took my 1917 to the range a couple of days ago and fired off a couple of shots at 100 m but didn't hit the paper, so i moved closer to 50 m to get a better idea of where my shot were landing and found out that they were landing about 15 cm to the right of center so i decided to try and drift the front blade to the right, but when i looked at the front sight I saw that it had been installed with the taller end of the post faceing forward, I got out a punch and a hammer to try to move it a bit but the thing wouldn't budge. I decided not to use brute force to move it as I don't want to damage it, I thought to myself that the groove that is cut in the front sight assembly for the driftable part (sorry can't remember what it is called) might be deeper at the front or back so the sight might be wedged in there because it is on backwards.

So my questions to you guys is has anyone here had a similar problem and come up with a solution to it, and was the front sight install in this way on the 1917 rifle or did someone just screw up?

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