dakota.potts
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I recently bought a Mojo Peep Sight for my M91/30. It's an awesome sight but I've got a question about the installation that maybe you guys can help me with.
The sight only seems to connect at the front pin. This means that it can flip up loosely and, I'd assume, may not always be held to the exact same place after the rifle recoils.
Is this because I took the leaf spring out? I removed it when I was installing my UTG mount for a scope (which ended up being a bad idea in general, hence the peep sight). I think it was soldered in there, or at least stuck really good, and required pliers to remove. The process bent it beyond any reasonable use. So I'd hope I can find a way to do it without that.
To be clear, the peep sight replaces the rear leaf sight of the Mosin Nagant. It attaches with a pin tapped in at the two holes at the front of the sight. There's no attachment place at the back so the whole sight can come forward and swivel on the two pins. It seems to rest at a fairly consistent place every time so I'm curious if accuracy would be affected too much as is. I'd like to figure something out regardless. The best I can figure is drilling and tapping a whole through the rear sight into the mount and adding a screw that I can turn to change the height that I would have to turn in tandem with the elevation adjustment on the sight, but that seems like over kill. It can't simply be held in place because it adjusts elevation by turning a knob which pushes it higher off the base. I can't figure in my head how any of this is supposed to be fixed with the spring in place so maybe I'm looking in the wrong area.
Sorry for my rambling, just hoping someone here can help.
The sight only seems to connect at the front pin. This means that it can flip up loosely and, I'd assume, may not always be held to the exact same place after the rifle recoils.
Is this because I took the leaf spring out? I removed it when I was installing my UTG mount for a scope (which ended up being a bad idea in general, hence the peep sight). I think it was soldered in there, or at least stuck really good, and required pliers to remove. The process bent it beyond any reasonable use. So I'd hope I can find a way to do it without that.
To be clear, the peep sight replaces the rear leaf sight of the Mosin Nagant. It attaches with a pin tapped in at the two holes at the front of the sight. There's no attachment place at the back so the whole sight can come forward and swivel on the two pins. It seems to rest at a fairly consistent place every time so I'm curious if accuracy would be affected too much as is. I'd like to figure something out regardless. The best I can figure is drilling and tapping a whole through the rear sight into the mount and adding a screw that I can turn to change the height that I would have to turn in tandem with the elevation adjustment on the sight, but that seems like over kill. It can't simply be held in place because it adjusts elevation by turning a knob which pushes it higher off the base. I can't figure in my head how any of this is supposed to be fixed with the spring in place so maybe I'm looking in the wrong area.
Sorry for my rambling, just hoping someone here can help.