Home made front sight removal tool?

[Prof Young]

Smithers:

The whole story is that my Mosin Nagant shoots high with the rear sight as low as it can go. (Big surprise, right?) I'm investigating ways to "fix" this and have found a suggested solution for making the rear sight go lower. It involves modifying the rear sight and while I'm not against doing that I want to look at all options.

I've looked at after market front sights and they seem worth investigating. So I'm exploring the removal of the front sight. I'm wondering if I could make my own front sight removal took from a small c-clamp. Anyone ever try that?

Live well, be safe
Prof Young

 

[viciouskitty]

If your willing to not spend much money the way I got my Finn model 29 to shoot to POA was by building up the front blade with jb weld. I globbed it on there and then filed it into the correct profile. I then took it to the range and filed it shorter until it was hitting POA. It was cheap easy and if I don't tell you I did it I bet you wouldn't notice it. You could try that with the standard mosin front post.

 

[tangolima]

The front sight hood is dovetailed to the sight base. It can be drifted out with a punch. Once the hood is out, the front sight blade (pin) can be drifted out from the hole in the hood ring.

I taped the hole in the hood base, to say 4-40 thread. Ground a 4-40 screw to a sharp point, and threaded that screw in the hood base. I ended up with a adjustable front sight. Now my Mosin shoots where I aim.

-TL

 

[nate_g_2003]

You could always try one of these, of you don't mind buying off eBay:

Mosin Nagant 91/30 Front Sight Adjusting Tool

I know it is labeled as a front sight adjusting tool, but it should work as a remover as well.

[I'm in no way involved with that eBay ad, just something I have in my watch list that I find might be useful one day.]

 

[madmo44mag]

Nate I think that tool is to drift the sight side too side.
Nagants are bad about shooting high and left.
I own several.

I have to say tangolima idea is great.

Most 91/30 have a pin for a front sight inside a globe not a blade style.

What I did was take a plastic coffee stir stick and snipped it off and slipped it over the pin.
Once I got trimmed where I needed it I just put some glue in the straw and slide it over the pin.