someguy2800
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So I bought a new Marlin 45-70 guide gun back in August when they had there mail in rebate going on. I immediately fell in love with it except for one nagging problem. The front sight is canted on the barrel. The dovetail for the rear sight is straight but the front sight was angled about 5 degree to the right.
As a result when shooting with the factory iron sights the gun would shoot several inches left at 50 yards. To zero the sights the front sight had to be drifted to the left half way out of the dovetail.
I was planning on putting a Williams peep sight on the gun anyway and could just use that to correct from the back which I did. It still irritated me every time I shot the gun that the sights were crooked though so I finally decided to send it back to fix it. Remington sent me a call tag for it which was addressed to a gunsmith shop here in Minnesota. A couple weeks later I get a post card from the gunsmith shop saying they can't fix it and it needs to be forwarded to the factory.
Well the gun showed up at the house today out of the blue addressed from the gunsmith shop in Minnesota. I opened up the box and there is a document inside that says that it was repaired by indexing the barrel.
Immediately before even unwrapping the gun I thought oh great, now the rear sight will be crooked! Sure enough the rear sight is now canted to the left by 5 degrees! Unbelievable!
(edit: you can see it best with rear sight folded down)
I'm going to knock out the rear sight and put a dovetail filler in it anyway so not sure if I want to send it back again or not. It really doesn't matter but I think its going to bother me looking at the crooked rear sight filler. In any case I'm going to have to get another month of enjoyment out of the gun if I'm going to send it back again. Absolutely love the gun but this is just silly. I would still buy it again.
As a result when shooting with the factory iron sights the gun would shoot several inches left at 50 yards. To zero the sights the front sight had to be drifted to the left half way out of the dovetail.
I was planning on putting a Williams peep sight on the gun anyway and could just use that to correct from the back which I did. It still irritated me every time I shot the gun that the sights were crooked though so I finally decided to send it back to fix it. Remington sent me a call tag for it which was addressed to a gunsmith shop here in Minnesota. A couple weeks later I get a post card from the gunsmith shop saying they can't fix it and it needs to be forwarded to the factory.
Well the gun showed up at the house today out of the blue addressed from the gunsmith shop in Minnesota. I opened up the box and there is a document inside that says that it was repaired by indexing the barrel.
Immediately before even unwrapping the gun I thought oh great, now the rear sight will be crooked! Sure enough the rear sight is now canted to the left by 5 degrees! Unbelievable!
(edit: you can see it best with rear sight folded down)
I'm going to knock out the rear sight and put a dovetail filler in it anyway so not sure if I want to send it back again or not. It really doesn't matter but I think its going to bother me looking at the crooked rear sight filler. In any case I'm going to have to get another month of enjoyment out of the gun if I'm going to send it back again. Absolutely love the gun but this is just silly. I would still buy it again.
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