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Posted: 5/4/2011 12:13:54 AM EDT
| Has anyone ever replaced the front sight base on a mauser? I've got a Turk mauser that looks like it took a knock, the front sight blade is gone and the front sight base is jacked up enough to where a replacement one won't fit correctly. |
| I've never done one, but seen it done in an artical. IIRC you remove the blade from the dovetail cut, heat the base to soften the silver solder and remove the set screw. Then, with the base still hot, tap it off the front of the barrel. I saw it done in an artical in Shotgun News several years ago when Coffield did a Mauser .45acp conversion. I can't remember which Mauser he used though. It may have been a Spanish Mauser. |
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I've never done one, but seen it done in an artical. IIRC you remove the blade from the dovetail cut, heat the base to soften the silver solder and remove the set screw. Then, with the base still hot, tap it off the front of the barrel. I saw it done in an artical in Shotgun News several years ago when Coffield did a Mauser .45acp conversion. I can't remember which Mauser he used though. It may have been a Spanish Mauser.
Thats exactly how you do it, and that was with our Mauser 45 kits, good memory on the article. you can get replacement Mauser front sights from Gun Parts Corp, they will have a Nazi eagle on them though. You can use a K98 front sight for that Turk Mauser. |
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I've never done one, but seen it done in an artical. IIRC you remove the blade from the dovetail cut, heat the base to soften the silver solder and remove the set screw. Then, with the base still hot, tap it off the front of the barrel. I saw it done in an artical in Shotgun News several years ago when Coffield did a Mauser .45acp conversion. I can't remember which Mauser he used though. It may have been a Spanish Mauser.
Thats exactly how you do it, and that was with our Mauser 45 kits, good memory on the article. you can get replacement Mauser front sights from Gun Parts Corp, they will have a Nazi eagle on them though. You can use a K98 front sight for that Turk Mauser. Good to know, thanks guys! |
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the German front sights are longer front to back than the Turkish ones and won't fit properly. Every country also has a slightly different ID where the sight slips over the barrel. best bet would be to go to a gun shop/ gun show and measure a few to figure out what country comes the closest....IIRC it should be the Swedish m96. Springfield Sporters usually has a pretty good selection of parts also. Century Arms was the last place to have Turkish parts of any quantity....they incorrectly listed them as German M98 parts last time I looked.
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about 10 years ago when Samco Global had a bunch of Swede m96 NOS barrels Swede/ Turk hybrids were not uncommon.....all of the sight parts swapped over without much fiddling. They would take a Turk with a shot out barrel and install a 6.5x55 M96 barrel.....contours/ everything matched.....making a pretty sweet original looking Turk m38 in 6.5x55.
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