| I was looking around the
Tapco
Web Site and came upon a windage adjustable rear SKS
sight. True, you can adjust the windage of the front SKS sight,
easy enough. You have to remember all of them there complicated
thoughts, like you move the front sight in the opposite direction
you wish to change the windage (intended grammar errors for editorial
effect and humor). For some reason it took me years before I
could remember this correctly. Every time I would be at the range
and want to adjust windage on a Mauser or other rifle, I would always
forget which way I was supposed to move the front sights! Some sort
of Freudian mental blockage, my college books would say.....on with
the story. I always thought that the 1903A3 and the Garands were
made for people like me. It is a lot easier to move the rear sight
in the direction you actually wish the change to be applied! For
$12, I could afford to experiment, so I ordered it.
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| Figure 1 shows the new Replacement
Sight. Notice at the front of the sight, the two trunnions. These
slide in over the flat rear sight leaf spring to rest in grooves
in the sight base. |
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| Figure 2 shows the New Replacement
Sight's windage adjustment screw. The sight is made of a polymer
and seems to be pretty soundly made. |
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| 1) First move the elevation
slide on the original sight to the rear. |
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| 2) Use a small to medium size
flat blade screw driver as shown in figure 4. |
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| 3) Using the flat blade screw
driver, push down in front of the sight leaf on the spring. |
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| 4) As shown in figure 6,
while applying pressure to the spring you can easily pull out the
old sight leaf. |
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| 5) Remove the slide from the
original sight as shown in figure 7. |
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| 6) Install the original elevation
slide on the new sight leaf. |
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| 7) While applying pressure
on the leaf spring, slide the new sight into place and then release
pressure on the spring and the sight will stay in place. |
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| 9) Figure 10 shows the installed
sight. |
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| As shown in figure 11, you
can use a small flat blade screw driver to adjust the windage on
the new rear sight leaf. The sight picture is a little different,
but nothing you won't get used to and you did not have to permanently
modify the rifle to install it. You can easily return it to its
original condition. jlm ;)
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| Note:
Tapco no longer carries the sight in the above article but it
can be found at
Numrich for around $16. |
