Front sight modification/addition on an original 63 Springfield

[Cannonman1]

Shooting rifle musket at 50 yards, using original sights, one needs to aim low. The 100 yard sights pretty much demand aiming outside of the bullseye. I shoot an original gun and refuse to damage the front sight by soldering a higher blade onto the front sight base but figure someone has to have come up with an adaptation to do that without disfiguring the original sight. Anyone ever seen such an animal? Before I try to engineer one myself I thought I would wee what was out there.

 

[gemmer]

I shoot a number of Springfield originals, cartridge and muzzleloading that shoot high with issue sights. Some N-SSA shooters sculpt a higher blade on the base out of JB Weld. A little heat and some acetone will remove it. For the typical Springfield front sight I have used a piece of brass flat stock wider than the sight base. I cut a notch in it to fit over the base and blade and fill in the void around the blade with JB to secure it. Align it with original blade. Use a piece thick enough to file one side for windage correction if necessary. OR, got to S&S Firearms, www.ssfirearms.com and buy a competition sight base and blade that's higher than the original and mount it behind the original. Use Loctite Black Max to glue it to the barrel. Make sure you throughly degrease the barrel and sight. Again, heat and acetone will clean it up if you remove it. Black Max is an excellent product.