Ok, so it’s obvious how a dovetail front or rear site fit into a barrel, but I’m really struggling to get my front site to start to go into the slot on a Pendersoli Kentucky pistol kit. Any tricks that I should know other than to keep trying?
Happy to fiddle for an hour at a time until the frustration gets the best of me, unless there’s some sort of snazzy trick to getting these things started. The rear one wasn’t easy either but at least it did start after a few tries.
This is a newly browned barrel but I have the dovetail channel smoothed out nicely, and the inside edges as clean as I can get them without breaking out the power dremel, which I’m not keen on trying. I also laid the site flat on some fine sandpaper to take any burrs off that may have been there (I can’t feel any).
Rob
Happy to fiddle for an hour at a time until the frustration gets the best of me, unless there’s some sort of snazzy trick to getting these things started. The rear one wasn’t easy either but at least it did start after a few tries.
This is a newly browned barrel but I have the dovetail channel smoothed out nicely, and the inside edges as clean as I can get them without breaking out the power dremel, which I’m not keen on trying. I also laid the site flat on some fine sandpaper to take any burrs off that may have been there (I can’t feel any).
Rob