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Rear sight removal

birddogg

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I am going to remove my rear sight and am wondering if I should remove the guts...spring,pin, sight ladder, before I remove it. I am putting a new sight base on but want to use the old ladder etc. I removed front sight no problem today. The ladder and guts on the rear sight are giving me a hard time. Maybe I will just take it off and then try to get it apart....any thoughts?
 
Would be easier to remove the sight leaf and spring while still on the rifle.

Remove the retaining pin. Grasp the rear of the leaf, push down firmly and pull back from under the sight base bosses.

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Would be easier to remove the sight leaf and spring while still on the rifle.

Remove the retaining pin. Grasp the rear of the leaf, push down firmly and pull back from under the sight base bosses.

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Yeah, I took pin out and tried this. I saw this method on video but it’s not budging. I thought it was too easy grrrr
 
Takes considerable pressure to compress the spring while pulling it rearward at the same time. Pressing down with a wooden dowel may be easier than thumb pressure alone if you don’t have a lot of strength in your hand.


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sight removal

I've done similar to doing an AK. Clamp the rifle or action WO stock in a vice on a drill press table and use a sturdy dowell in the chuck to press down then back.
Total control and no danger of slipping.
Pete
 
Before my hands succumbed to old age I did it bare handed on my lap. Put the slide forward by 1/4 of the way. Holding the rifle firmly butt end facing away, with your thumb against the ladder between the post and the slide, with one quick/firm action, push down hard and to the rear and it pops right off. Replacing is obviously the reverse procedure but leave the slide in it's default original position.:thumbsup:
 
See figures 31-41 (pages 17-21) for removal and installation of rear sight leaf parts... Be careful about scratching parts...
https://web.archive.org/web/2006111...fledisassembly2006/pdf/98kdisassembly2006.pdf

Jamie Mangrum had a website SurplusRifles.com that he quit running in 2007. It had nice array of surplus rifle how-to manuals.
The website is preserved on the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/) and still has access his manuals and articles on line.
It is a wonderful resource. I purchased all of his CD's before he transferred ownership over to Layne of Tennessee Gun Parts and then it finally drifted into obscurity...

The www.surplusrifleforum.com is still around

https://web.archive.org/web/20081218160501/http://www.surplusrifle.com:80/mauser98k/index.asp
https://web.archive.org/web/2009012...m:80/mauser98k/rifledisassembly2006/index.asp

Hope this helps...
 
I have never been accused of being weak and I have put the barrel in a vise making a dozen attempts. If I use anymore force I will blow a vein. I assume its never been moved cuz a friend stopped by and he took his off easily. He tried mine a few times and just shrugged his shoulders.
 
AAAhh...a dowel and hammer got it without leaving a mark.

Good, might have just been some crud or old age holding it fast. The very first one I replaced had a damaged/crooked pin in it and took an act of congress just to get it out. It was a BYF 41 4710 "v" , still remember the sn. I THOUGHT it was an honest matching rifle until I brought it to a local show and showed it to Craig Brown who proceeded to educate me on the myriad of things wrong with it. I had owned it over a year and sold it back to the same gun shop (for a small profit)that sold it to me as "all matching". They did not remember the rifle needless to say. Then the same guys weeks later at a show tried to shame me for telling "THEM" it was all matching...lol. How's it feel I told him. Circa 1996 ?
 
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Got the new rear sight base on and put everything back together. At least the thing has a rear sight that didn't have the ear over the handguard cut off. I suspect it was for sporterizing it back years ago. Thanks for the input everyone
 

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