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Offline dinger

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front sight insallation
« on: March 12, 2009, 06:27:49 AM »
I am trying to replace the front sight blade on a Marlin 336. Either the dovetail is to narrow or the new sight blade is a tad to large to drift in. How to proceed? Thanks, dinger.
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Re: front sight insallation
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 09:22:46 AM »
Only file on the sight, leave the rifle alone.  If you file off the bottom of the dove tail on the front sight then the dove tail gets smaller.  Larry
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Re: front sight insallation
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2009, 05:42:46 AM »
Thanks,trotterlg, for the reply. You are right about filing on the sight. I remembered after my post that you do exactly that for mounting the Ashley system mount on the 336 Marlin.dinger.
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Re: front sight insallation
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2009, 03:26:29 AM »
If your front sight is ramp mounted, they generally slide in a lot easier with a sight pusher - AND, neither sight nor ramp gets dinged from "drifting" slips/misses/etc.

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