General Geoff
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Finally got my special order 22-inch barreled 10/22 in yesterday, and as soon as I got it out of the box I went about getting the front sight removed to install the Tech-Sights I've had waiting for it. Now I've done this before to 10/22s, I've installed Tech-Sights before and removed the front sight post on a 10/22 that was built ~10 years ago (and it went fairly smoothly, tapped it out in about 10 minutes) . But this one just would not cooperate.
After wailing on it with a 3lb engineer's hammer and both a brass and steel punch for over an hour, I ended up having to cut through it with a dremel and remove the original sight in two pieces. There was an obvious gouge where the bottom part of the sight was digging into the dovetail every time I tapped it with the hammer, and would never have come out with the hammer and punch alone.
Just wanted to give a heads-up to those with newer 10/22s who are trying to remove the stock front sight post. The rifle might not give it up without a fight.
After wailing on it with a 3lb engineer's hammer and both a brass and steel punch for over an hour, I ended up having to cut through it with a dremel and remove the original sight in two pieces. There was an obvious gouge where the bottom part of the sight was digging into the dovetail every time I tapped it with the hammer, and would never have come out with the hammer and punch alone.
Just wanted to give a heads-up to those with newer 10/22s who are trying to remove the stock front sight post. The rifle might not give it up without a fight.
