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BBroadside · August 26, 2011, 06:35 PM

After a lot of googling, I found this.

I tried both proposed solutions. First, I turned the foresight upside down, put it in my vice, and peened its little feet with a centrepunch. It raised dimples, but it wasn't enough to stop slliding.

Then I slipped a screwdriver in between its feet and separated them slightly, probably much less than a sixteenth of an inch.

That pretty much did it. It slides in now and I need the centrepunch to move it. I'm not 100% sure recoil won't move it, but I'll bet on it since recoil is completely orthogonal to the axis on which the sight slides.

August 26, 2011, 06:35 PM	#4
BBroadside Member Join Date: June 6, 2010 Posts: 86	After a lot of googling, I found this. I tried both proposed solutions. First, I turned the foresight upside down, put it in my vice, and peened its little feet with a centrepunch. It raised dimples, but it wasn't enough to stop slliding. Then I slipped a screwdriver in between its feet and separated them slightly, probably much less than a sixteenth of an inch. That pretty much did it. It slides in now and I need the centrepunch to move it. I'm not 100% sure recoil won't move it, but I'll bet on it since recoil is completely orthogonal to the axis on which the sight slides.