I'm looking for thoughts & comments on bending the front sight of my Pietta 1858. It shoots 6-7" left at 25 yards off a sand bag (and off hand as well). Yes, I could simply aim to the right, but it irritates me, and I'd like to make it shoot to point of aim at 25 yards.
I think the sight is a press fit (?), and I tried to simply put some vise grips on the end of the sight (while installed) and deform it slightly. It turns out that while the gun as a whole is made mostly of mildly tempered butter (particularly the screws!), the front sight appears to be composed of heat treated rockwellium* which wouldn't budge.
Any thoughts & experience? If I ever do manage to bend the sight, I guess it'll be trial and error to move the impact 7" at 25 yards, since I'm not even going to begin to think about the geometry of the situation!
Thanks,
Steve
P.S. I'm not irritated enough to spend any money on a dovetail sight.
*Rockwellium is a very rare substance that's really, really hard.
I think the sight is a press fit (?), and I tried to simply put some vise grips on the end of the sight (while installed) and deform it slightly. It turns out that while the gun as a whole is made mostly of mildly tempered butter (particularly the screws!), the front sight appears to be composed of heat treated rockwellium* which wouldn't budge.
Any thoughts & experience? If I ever do manage to bend the sight, I guess it'll be trial and error to move the impact 7" at 25 yards, since I'm not even going to begin to think about the geometry of the situation!
Thanks,
Steve
P.S. I'm not irritated enough to spend any money on a dovetail sight.
*Rockwellium is a very rare substance that's really, really hard.