Your setup sounds good to me. I had a donor sight on hand so that was the main reason for using the one I did. Well, that, and I am lazy! hahaMark,
Yes, it would have been easy for them, not so much for us…
How did you drill the original sight ?
I tried it and couldn’t get the bit to cut (these sights appear to be made of spring steel, even on the ones I’ve removed to install peeps the spot welds were tough to file !)
I went a different route, I “Dremmeled”slots on either side with a .150” web in the center, then made a sight blade out of thin angle that hooks over the top, d&t for two 4-40 screws…not a lot of range, but hopefully enough.
Anyway, after grinding off the original sight's notch, I used a spring-loaded center punch to locate the hole. It can be seen in the photo, middle right side.Then just a matter of cutting the 4-40 threads for the screw. For what it's worth, I didn't get the impression the sight was spring steel- but I could be wrong...
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