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Posted: 4/2/2011 4:30:51 PM EDT
| I got an Interamrs AK-74 built on Bulgarian kit last weekend. It has a slight cant in the front sight, it doesnt hurt sight acqusition but it's noticable with careflul look. Shot if for the first time today and at 50 yards it hits about 3 inches to the left and 3 inches high. I plan on it being a beater plinker/truck gun and not an accuracy rifle plus my main local range is only 50 yards, so I will probably ajust the sight and keep it. The other side of me tells me to return in though, but I really like it otherwise and don't want to. How much do I need to adjust my sight to fix that? I won't get my sight adjuster until next week, so I can't test it right now. What do ya'll think I should do? |
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If I can get all the holes on an 8X11 paper at 25, 50, 75 and 100 yards I am happy with any Kalishnikov
I got an Interamrs AK-74 built on Bulgarian kit last weekend. It has a slight cant in the front sight, it doesnt hurt sight acqusition but it's noticable with careflul look. Shot if for the first time today and at 50 yards it hits about 3 inches to the left and 3 inches high. I plan on it being a beater plinker/truck gun and not an accuracy rifle plus my main local range is only 50 yards, so I will probably ajust the sight and keep it. The other side of me tells me to return in though, but I really like it otherwise and don't want to. How much do I need to adjust my sight to fix that? I won't get my sight adjuster until next week, so I can't test it right now. What do ya'll think I should do? |
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| If you get an adjustment tool and you can get windage zero, your front site base is not far off, now if it looks bad, displeasing to the eye to see it shifted all the way one way or the other, then you may want to fix the cant....it is easy, takes ten minutes, but remove the pins. They come out right to left, mark the front site base and bbl with a pencil line... secure it in a vise...then whack it with a mallet! Move it Just the distance in the right direction of the thickness of the pencil line! Just that little movement is quite a bit downrange. Then put the pins back in, being careful to put the one with the half moon cutout for the front site lock pin in the front hole. Move the lock pin in and out a couple of times to make sure it isn't bound up. Then go shoot it with your sight adjustment tool along. Some front site bases move easily, others need a couple good whacks. And remember while you are doing this that there is a bench jig the manufacturer can use which makes a canted site all but impossible! So it is very sloppy work to have it happen in the first place! |
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