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Or left to right? What’s the convention?
I've been a gunsmith for 35 years and have never seen a tapered dovetail either.For all the talk of tapered dovetails in 50+ years of messing with guns I've never found a single one. I'm sure they must exist..... somewhere.
For all the talk of tapered dovetails in 50+ years of messing with guns I've never found a single one. I'm sure they must exist..... somewhere.
For all the talk of tapered dovetails in 50+ years of messing with guns I've never found a single one. I'm sure they must exist..... somewhere.
Understood. However regardless of whether the actual dovetail is tapered or not, the actual sight is often hand-fitted/filed and may have some taper on it as a result, so if the convention is driving out to the right and in from the right I'm going to try that first, and fit the new sight that way as well. Thanks all!Same for me, but I always try driving out from the left, in from the right, first. Sometimes I end up reversing that, but even then the dovetail wasn't tapered. They just came out easier that way.
Yep, that's been my experience as well. I got the front sight replaced. Thanks all!The few times I've dealt with sight dovetails, the dovetail cut in the barrel didn't seem to have a taper. But, the actual sight's dovetails did have tapers and were installed from the right, tapping them to go to the left.