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I took my Thunderhawk to a local gunsmith, of good repute, to have my nifty TC factory aperture sight mounted. Looks like an open sight converted to aperture.
This required d&t for 2 holes. One hole is good. The other... Off enough that the sight sits just a tad crooked. Its off enough that plugging it and doing over, would have about a 3rd of the new screw in the plug. I'm also not crazy about giving this fellow another crack at my rifle.
So. Right now, its on with one screw. Seems solid, but I wonder, with all the nifty adhesives out there today, could I just use that to make the sight more secure? The rifle is stainless and the sight base blued. There's a lot of surface area for bonding. I'm also thinking about good old solder. I don't see that sight ever coming off, so the more permanent the better.
Whaddya think?
This required d&t for 2 holes. One hole is good. The other... Off enough that the sight sits just a tad crooked. Its off enough that plugging it and doing over, would have about a 3rd of the new screw in the plug. I'm also not crazy about giving this fellow another crack at my rifle.
So. Right now, its on with one screw. Seems solid, but I wonder, with all the nifty adhesives out there today, could I just use that to make the sight more secure? The rifle is stainless and the sight base blued. There's a lot of surface area for bonding. I'm also thinking about good old solder. I don't see that sight ever coming off, so the more permanent the better.
Whaddya think?