OK, I finally got an extra barrel but I am having a friend parkerize it so as to match the Deerslayer barrel and receiver. Any tricks or advice on removal of the front sight before doing such?
Thanks
Removal of front sight
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It depends on the sight. It is a bead? If so there is a tool you can get from brownells that will remove beads. Most beads and derivatives are screwed in. But be careful and not force it. Raybar types are wedged in. They have tools that can push them out or you can try to tap it out with a wide screwdriver tip heavily wrapped in electrical tape. Be careful, though, they are old and get very brittle. You might want to buy a spare from the factory in case it breaks. because odds are, it will.
--Jim
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It is a Ray-Bar. So I should tap it out from inside the barrel?
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I think we got a bit of confusion here.
there are 2 different kinds of sights your standard bird barrel brass bead or raybar type that's a elongated bead screw in that are oranage and your deerslayer raybar the deer slayer raybar is used on a rifle type sight system.deerslayer raybars a long and triangular and as raven says pressed in |
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It is the Raybar on a field barrel, not a Deerslayer.
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both sights can be called raybar ,that is what the company called the translucent orange plastic used.
bird barrels have just the bead type, the orange part is round and is held by 1 or 2 bands around it depending on year these types are screw in's the deer slayer has rifle type sights on it , a rear V and on the front a triangular orange strip that's pressed into the front sight mount |
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If it is a screw-in, go slowly and unscrew it gently. I've wrapped up the jaws of a pair of needlenose pliers with electrical tape (lots) and used it like a lever. Just be careful and go slowly or you can break it off (I have, it is not fun)
--Jim
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Sight unsrewed without any problem, even though one of the bands on the bar were broken. Barrel off to be reparkeried. I need a new front sight though. I hate to use the old one with just one of the securing bands in place.
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