Does any one here make or know where to get a sight removal/install/adjustment tool that will fit a octagon barrel? Instead of beating them with a hammer and punch.
Thanks

I had a Marlin 1894 that someone forced a front sight into the dovetail once! The front of the barrel from dovetail to crown was broken off!
I always wondered how hard the previous owner hit it to break out the last 3/4" of barrel!

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Your sights must be made of super soft steel.  How can you put a dimple in the metal using a brass drift?   

Use a wide brass drift, say 1/4  X  1/2 and file the end to fit the sight. Hold the barrel in the vice right under the sight. Support the the butt end with something. Try that. If it wont come out call the maker and ask what the*%$#@&*()_+ is going on with their @*&%$^#)(+_@%^ product. Maybe they glued them in. 


                                                Joe 

Some sights are equipped with a threaded tightening device of some kind.
(I didn't say 'setscrew' because that would be too obvious to miss.)

But, I'm betting you are dealing with Loctite or (worse) epoxy.  Some guys don't look down the road very far..

CM

Guy's, in order to eliminate damage to sights or sight bases I use Bullets to drift with. Usually a hard cast Postell but almost any good size bullet will do. They absorb all the damge and usually do nothing to the sight other than a little lead smear that is easily removed with Hoppes or some other mild solvent. We generally think of Rifle parts as being some kind of super tough hard steel. In most cases the opposit is true. I once had a guy come to me with  single shot with the Tang sight bent over about 30 degrees sideways. "Can we do anything to save this he asked?" DUH! I took a small plastic hammer and banged back upright. Went right back to where it belonged. Eyecup block moved up and down with no bind. A Brass drift punch gets harder on each end the more it is used, impact hammers the molecule structure tighter and tighter, thus harder. Try the Bullets, they do work and you can smack them as hard as you need. HTH, Regards, FITZ.

Where do you get theDerlin stock?

rafter3c wrote on Apr 4^th, 2009 at 10:55am:


The taper is usually built into all sights, not into the dovetail. If you remove any front or rear sight and turn it around, then trial fit it to the dovetail you'll see they are narrower on the left side of the sight, regardless of which side of the dovetail you attempt to install them.
Same thing for sight blanks. If you look at the underside of a Marbles blank, they have a dimple stamped into them to indicate the narrow side of the blank, which enters the dovetail first.-Vall