I wanted to change the blade in the rear sight on my hunter to a square notch, basically a swap from a 5.5 inch bull barrel. 678 hunter gets the square notch blade and the 5.5 bull gets the v notch.
Right now I am half way there and am stuck !!
I took the windage screw out.
The blade is spring loaded within the sight and is round notched at the back of the blade. By compressing the spring with a small screw driver I was able to get the blade out.
It took a bit of doing as it has to aligh a rounded key at the back of the blade with a matching notch on the sight. Both blades are now out.
First - the square notch blade does not want to find into the hunter sight. It is off by just enough to not want to fit. To ruger's credit, the steel is darn hard and my files seemed to not make much progress. I will try again to night. Only one blade won't go back in so it is just a bit too big and I know I can file it enough if I have too.
The second problem is that I am not able to compress the spring while sliding the blade into the sight. I am going to try some different tools tonight and am borrowing some old dental tools from my dad to see if that works.
Does anyone have a trick to get the spring compressed and the sight blade back in?. Any advice would be appreciated.
It might have been easier to just swap the entire sight assemblies, but that might have opened another can-o-worms.
Thanks
Chad.
Right now I am half way there and am stuck !!
I took the windage screw out.
The blade is spring loaded within the sight and is round notched at the back of the blade. By compressing the spring with a small screw driver I was able to get the blade out.
It took a bit of doing as it has to aligh a rounded key at the back of the blade with a matching notch on the sight. Both blades are now out.
First - the square notch blade does not want to find into the hunter sight. It is off by just enough to not want to fit. To ruger's credit, the steel is darn hard and my files seemed to not make much progress. I will try again to night. Only one blade won't go back in so it is just a bit too big and I know I can file it enough if I have too.
The second problem is that I am not able to compress the spring while sliding the blade into the sight. I am going to try some different tools tonight and am borrowing some old dental tools from my dad to see if that works.
Does anyone have a trick to get the spring compressed and the sight blade back in?. Any advice would be appreciated.
It might have been easier to just swap the entire sight assemblies, but that might have opened another can-o-worms.
Thanks
Chad.