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Posted: 3/22/2007 4:48:23 PM EDT
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I need some suggestions from you experts. After lurking around here for months, I decided to buy a Del-Ton 16" mid-length A2 kit. Put it together (with help from this great website) and went to the range. In order to get a feel for the trigger and sights, I set up on a 25 yd. range and fired a couple hundred rounds. All were very slow, controlled shots from sandbags. It shot fine. The only problem was that to get it on target I had to give it 20 left clicks of windage. I felt like that was more than should be needed so I called Del-Ton and spoke with a very nice lady. She said to send it back to be checked, but that they were out of the chrome lined barrel like I had purchased and it would be 5 or 6 weeks before they could get a replacement. I said I had a son in the Marines that was coming home on leave for a week and he had challenged me to a shoot, so I asked if there might be an upgrade or downgrade to consider so that I wouldn't miss the opportunity with my son. She very graciously said they would take care of me. After sending it back with an enclosed letter of explanation of the windage problem, I called her and was told that I would get a call from the tech. Well, no call. So on Monday, I called and was told that it had a new barrell( Have no idea what barrel they put on, but I don't think it is chrome lined) and was already shipped my way. I took it to the range and went through the same procedure. Now it takes 17 left clicks of windage to get it on target. My question-----------How close to the center should the windage be on most rifles? Am I expecting too much from Del-Ton? I wanted to hear from you guys before I contact them again. I really don't want to pay again to ship it back if you think this is about as good as it gets. Thanks for any suggestions. |
| I've got the same problem with my del-ton kit rifle and I've pretty much ignored it up till now. I think they over-torque the barrel nut. I'm planning to take it to a local gunsmith to fix with a batch of other things that I want done on my rifle soon. I wouldn't bother sending it back and forth through the mail but that's me. |
This sounds bad, but if you take a large rubber mallet, and hit the sight in the direction the bullet is going in, it will set the fsb against the taper pins and will remove some of the windage problem. It sounds bad, but Derrick Martins book shows it being done. The other is to remove the sling swivel, tap the hole for the gas port and install a set screw. Then set the rear sight to mz, and set the windage with the front sight base, then ream out the pin holes, and put in new taper pins.  ( I'd try the mallet first)
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