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Help with Ak-47 front sigth !

orooro Member Posts: 174 ✭✭✭
edited November 2001 in Ask the Experts
I had a Ak-47 brought in as a trade.I AM NOT a AK-47...SKS... person. The gun looks pretty new,however the front sight looks like it is twisted on the barrel a little to the left.What is the proper way to stand it back up straight? I grabed it with my hand a gave it all I got,but it didn't move a lick.Oro
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  • ammo guyammo guy Member Posts: 810 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I understand the situation the whole front site is twisted to one side, if this is the case you have a defective situation, the site has a round piece that the adjustable (for height)site pin sits in, this may on occasion be off set to one side to properly sight in the gun, if this is the case it is not uncommon. Hope this helps.
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  • competentonecompetentone Member Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    oro,My Sar-1 has both it's sight and gas block slightly out of alignment.They're held in with pins and won't twist straight. It's not an easy task to drive out the pins and re-drill and install new pins--I'm playing with mine since I'm adding a muzzle brake now, but before starting that I had just installed the RPK adjustable rear sight for good windage adjustment.You can adjust the front site post, but then it's not aligned evenly between the site's ears--which "annoys" me personally, but the gun still works fine.It's an AK...only needs to work, not be "pretty".
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  • orooro Member Posts: 174 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ammo Guy,yes the whole sight is twisted.I will try to adjust the front sight for windage and see if that works.If not it has a scope rail,the lucky buyer has that option I guess.Most of what I sell are tack drivers,and hunting rifles.I guesss when the boys are on the front line going "hand to hand" with the AK's my buyers will be 800 yards behind them,but doing damage one shot at a time.........Thanks for the help guys. Oro
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  • ED PED P Member Posts: 190 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    oro, I'm in the same boat with my SAR-1, for some reason in the cheap AK manufacture process, the front sight isn't always put on straight. Seems a common problem, as the other post said. Seems like it'd be easy not to do, but happens alot.I was returning another SAR with a bent gas piston, and the only one they had left in the store was this one with the sight off to the left a little, so I had to go with it, and didn't bother me too much. Still shoots reliably, and I can hit within a pie plate with it's sights at 100 yards, so I'm happy.
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  • cpermdcpermd Member Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you for bringing a smile to my face this morning."within a pieplate" is hilarious.
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Most of the AKs have barrel assemblies that are drilled, reamed & crosspinned after being press fit into the receiver. This process would have to be reversed and redone to properly correct the problem since sight and gas block are preassembled on the barrel before being press fit into the receiver.
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  • PhilPhil Member Posts: 47 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    AKs don't come with a windage-adjustable rear sight.Like ammoman said,windage adjustment is accomplished by twisting the front sight-they even have a tool for doing same.
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  • PhilPhil Member Posts: 47 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hup...never mind...foot in mouth...misread your post.Yep,many of the Romanian guns did get imported with sights and/or gas blocks canted.
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