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Posted: 4/29/2006 5:36:45 PM EDT
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Got an awesome birthday present a few days ago! Yugo SKS with all the evil hardware (grenade launcher, bayo, night sights) that my better half secretly put a lot of time into refinishing the wood. Looks like a gem, even with the barrel still full of cosmoline. HOWEVER... I've discovered the entire front sight assembly appears to be twisted about 5 degrees clockwise when I look down the sights. The two things that clued me in were the front sight post being significantly elevated and drifted left, and the grenade launcher ladder sight seeming 'tilted'. I'm gonna make a wild guess that this is something I'll have to have corrected by a gunsmith, right? Any idea how much it will set me back? It looks like it's just misaligned, not warped or anything. |
| A tip...SHOOT IT, before you go messing with the sights! It may have been deliberately "mis-aligned" by a Yugo armorer to gain zero! It's rare, but if the BBL is a hair crooked in the reciever, it may have required the adjustment. I have seen one of these before, and it shot to point of aim, though astetically unpleasing to look at. |
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That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Wouldn't just adjusting the front sight post's elevation and windage to the necessary position have been a much better solution? Introducing a 2-dimensional vector divergance between the barrel and the sight alignment seems like it would create a lot of problems--like making sight adjustment a pain in the ass and rendering the rear sight ramp useless--and fix none. Plus, the front sight post was raised and drifted significantly up and left, probably in an attempt to compensate for the angle. Seems like that suggests someone was trying to get the tip of the sight post back to where it would be if there wasn't a tilt. I guess I'll run a few mags through it and see what it does. I tracked down a gunsmith locally who can deal with it for a decent price if it doesn't cooperate. Thanks for the heads up about it, whichever way it turns out. Also, any idea where I can get the muzzle grenade launcher? My rifle has been Cali-legaled (launcher removed and a flash suppressor tacked on) and I want to get it back to actual C&R status for posterity and compliance, since I don't live there. |
| I just took a peek at both of my SKS's (M59 and M59/66) and both front sight posts are slightly off to the right hand side. I haven't shot the M59 yet, but the M59/66 shoots perfectly with the front sight as it sits. Clean the cosmo out and blast a couple hundred rounds through it before you think you need to take it to the smith! |
| My yugo m59/66 is misaligned when i bought it. I cleaned the cosmoline off took it out and shot it. Guess what there was no paper left around the bullseye whn i went to go check the target. Please do yourself a favor and SHOOT it first before you go messing with the sights. |
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My front sight looked perfect, but when shooting, I couldn't move the front sight far enough to hit my point of aim and this was only at 50 feet. I sent it back for a new one even though I spent a few hours cleaning it up. Do try it first. Always function first, looks 2nd. |
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