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8/2/2017 4:32:16 PM EDT
No- I do not have one- well- I think I don't!

Anyone else look down your sights thinking the front sight may be a "hair" canted, then look again and swear "no- it is straight" (or visa versa).   At times it drives me NUTS. And then I take a rifle I've always known the front sight was absolutely straight up, and the more I stare down the barrel I start to see (or think) maybe it is a little off.  Aughhhhhhh!  

Yea- I know it's how you hold the rifle in general and that it has to be at a perfect zero degrees as well.
8/2/2017 5:19:27 PM EDT
[#1]
I spent a bunch of time aligning the FSB on a build and it looked prefectly straight. Then after drilling and pinning I found that the tower was canted by a degree or two but the hood ears were perfectly straight, making everything look like it was lined up.

If I had pinned the tower perfectly straight, the sight ears would have been crooked, but the post would have been perfectly centered.

Oh well. Rifle shoots fine.
8/2/2017 6:44:23 PM EDT
[#2]
Yes you can drive yourself crazy over this!
8/2/2017 7:24:06 PM EDT
[#3]
I have not tried this, but I understand that a section of GI cleaning rod can be threaded into the hole for the front sight. This should tell you if the FSB is straight.
8/2/2017 7:41:01 PM EDT
[#4]
Its simple. If after sighting in your sight post is in the center 1/3 of its available travel, your sight base is straight enough.
8/3/2017 7:33:08 AM EDT
[#5]
You're saying that your eyes are canted, then?


8/3/2017 8:37:46 AM EDT
[#6]
Have you shot the rifle yet to verify if it's canted or not?  If not, shoot it before you freak yourself out.
8/3/2017 10:43:49 AM EDT
[#7]
put an optic on it. Thats what I did with my WASR and I never noticed it again



I have a 4x POSP
8/5/2017 12:30:57 PM EDT
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You're saying that your eyes are canted, then?


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Ha - yea- that must be it!

Rifle shoots fine. If it is off, it so little that it does not affect anything. Most will say "what's the problem- don't worry about it", but I am anal in things I do, and if off I HAVE to get it TDC. I have to have my rear and front sight posts perfectly centered- it's a me issue, guess I am a perfectionist (that leaves me generally frustrated at things I do)  :O) .

I do feel that the rifles I purchased before 1990 had better quality control and never even had to think about things like "are the sights straight??". They had better quality back then.
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