Windage Adjustments

**Drill Sergeant** · 09-15-2009 02:24 PM

I need help correct windage for my 1917. Any ideas?

Thanks!

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**emmagee1917** · 09-15-2009 02:38 PM

Don't forget to pound the front sight blade opposite how you'd move the rear. Take a caliper and measure the distances from the base edge to the blade base on both sides , then track your movement there and the effect on your group placement to set it correct faster/easier. Chris.

**Drill Sergeant** · 09-15-2009 04:27 PM

Are you suggesting that I 'pound' the front sight with a brass punch?

Is there any sort of a sight tool available, along the lines of the AK front sight tool?

**joem** · 09-15-2009 07:51 PM

There is a tool tp push the front sight. The Danish icon

built this tool. Try this web site:Garand, M1, M14, M16, Carbine, 1911, 1917, Militaria, and Small Arms Information. I don't know if they sell them but the drawing has all the info you need to make one. Good luck.

**jamie5070** · 09-15-2009 09:17 PM

You can take an ak/sks sight tool and file some material off of the inside flat so that it will go over thet 1917 front sight and use it. Cheep way to go.
john

**Drill Sergeant** · 09-15-2009 11:47 PM

Thanks all for the help. I appreciate it much.

**Tom Bowers** · 09-16-2009 10:07 AM

I had an Eddystone that needed a windage adjustment. I tried a brass punch to drift the front sight, did not work. Bought a sks sight tool and filed the inside dimensions down just a bit to fit on the 1917's front sight ears and screwed the tool in a bit and got the rifle right on with the windage. Works very well and cheap. HTH

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