Red Dot Fitting

Gumbo

Guys,

I have a red dot I’d like fitted.
As per the title, I obviously don’t have a rear sight tenet tool.

The rear sight is a dove tail mount and the new red dot will sit on a dovetail plate.

Anyone around Dublin do this service?

Or alternatively, I’m on the road to Galway today so could leave it with someone and collect on the return trip on Thursday if someone can recommend someone along that route?

thanks.

Grizzly 45

If you are handy enough and its a dovetail,it should be a few minutes work with a hammer,padded vice and BRASS punch to drift in the dove tail to centre?

dc99

If you are doing it yourself - be aware that on some (or maybe all?) firearms the dovetail is cut to only remove the sight in one direction.

badaj0z

This came from a search a few years ago and I often go back to it to check. It applied when I removed the rear iron sight from a Walther GSP in order to insert a one piece mount(Picatinney) for a red dot sight.

I was told this by an old gunsmith: left to right to remove, think of it as how the empty brass comes out of the gun. Right to leftto install, like how you put the shells in the gun. Never failed me. 

Look ar the rifle as a clock, the barrel is12:O'clock and you take out the pins from 9:O'clock to 3:O'clock and put back3:O'clock to 9:O'clock 

Left to right to remove. Re-install the same, left-right. If you look at most handguns/rifles such as Colt 1911 the pin will havea dimple for the punch to set in while tapping, another example, Remington rifles and shotguns also have the dimple for such. Both come from the factorywith the dimple on the left when manufactured, if its in backwards you can betits been tampered with prior to your ownership if its a used gun. There may besome where it does'nt matter but this is the rule of thumb most go by. Yourchoice though. 

I think you got that wrong. Drive horizontallyestablished pins (and dovetails) out from left to right and reinsert them fromright to left. Some modern pins have no taper and then it doesn't matter. Forvertically established pins drive them out from below to upwards and toreinsert them drive them from above downwards,