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  • Josh Smith
    Senior Member
    • May 2011
    • 1101

    Rear Sight...

    Coming Soon...



    Josh
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  • #2
    pro-nra
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 2270

    Maybe this sight will uplift the Mosin team's performance on the next match?

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    • #3
      harmoniums
      Veteran Member
      • May 2008
      • 3488

      Need bigger pictures....
      WTB Irish firearms:
      old SxS shotguns, Enfields (Irish contract or FF marked), RIC marked carbines or revolvers, odd ball flintlocks.

      VZ58 PARTS F/S - I've got everything except magazine parts
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      • #4
        Josh Smith
        Senior Member
        • May 2011
        • 1101

        Originally posted by harmoniums
        Need bigger pictures....
        Forthcoming. These are teasers from the workbench. I'm waiting for the rest of the stuff to get here, then I'll make the first one.

        Regards,

        Josh
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        • #5
          DennisCA
          Veteran Member
          • Jul 2011
          • 4064

          Originally posted by pro-nra
          Maybe this sight will uplift the Mosin team's performance on the next match?
          DAAAAMN!
          "The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke speech of 23 April 1770, "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents," delivered to the House of Commons.

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          • #6
            Josh Smith
            Senior Member
            • May 2011
            • 1101

















            ... for sale now

            Regards,

            Josh
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            • #7
              v/dBrink
              Member
              • Sep 2008
              • 213

              Looks strangely like a sling swivel QD stud...

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              • #8
                billmaykafer
                Senior Member
                • May 2012
                • 1264

                i like it. innovation keeps coming.
                MOLON LABE

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                • #9
                  Josh Smith
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2011
                  • 1101

                  Originally posted by v/dBrink
                  Looks strangely like a sling swivel QD stud...
                  Why make from scratch when it exists?

                  I make most of the stuff on my front sights from scratch. If it already existed, I could be that much faster!

                  Regards,

                  Josh
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                  • #10
                    v/dBrink
                    Member
                    • Sep 2008
                    • 213

                    I would've carried the innovation a step further by drilling & tapping the hole for some existing target apertures.. like Lyman or Marbles.

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                    • #11
                      Josh Smith
                      Senior Member
                      • May 2011
                      • 1101

                      Originally posted by v/dBrink
                      I would've carried the innovation a step further by drilling & tapping the hole for some existing target apertures.. like Lyman or Marbles.
                      Hello,

                      That's in the future works. Folks have been wanting a rear sight for about a year, so I took that time to study the whys and wherefores about this type of sight.

                      Most don't work, and for good reason. That's why the slack adjustment is in there. It makes this work.

                      Regards,

                      Josh
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                      • #12
                        Josh Smith
                        Senior Member
                        • May 2011
                        • 1101



                        Please excuse the surroundings and the picture quality. I did this at home, not the shop, in response to some concerns that the cocking piece will move on the x and y axis and not only the z axis. The first part demonstrates that I have a standard sear, while the second and third parts give different views of the striker knob dropping.

                        You will see that the cocking piece only travels in the direction it's supposed to.

                        Regards,

                        Josh
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                        • #13
                          Josh Smith
                          Senior Member
                          • May 2011
                          • 1101

                          Hello,

                          I hope to be well enough this weekend to get out and shoot it for "postable" targets. I already have two orders.

                          I guess 60-70 years ago this was considered quite the modification.





                          M91 Mosin Nagant

                          Regards,

                          Josh
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                          • #14
                            Josh Smith
                            Senior Member
                            • May 2011
                            • 1101

                            Hello,

                            I'm currently in the office/workshop. Orwell is on internet radio, and I'm filling sight orders.

                            I've also prototyped an interchangeable aperture rear peep. The first size is 3/32", which is my favorite size peep sight.

                            Pictures to follow later tonight or sometime tomorrow.

                            Regards,

                            Josh
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                            • #15
                              Josh Smith
                              Senior Member
                              • May 2011
                              • 1101







                              The existing ghost ring is about 0.125". This aperture shown is 0.094.

                              I don't really like the 0.094" as it just falls in between ghost ring and not-ghost-ring, and if I go to production, the standard aperture size will be about 0.063 or so to start with, anyway.

                              I still like the ghost ring as it holds the front sight hood centered perfectly, but I understand those who desire the smaller aperture and will be trying it out myself shortly, before I start making it.

                              Also included is a slightly improved lockup to return the cocking piece to perfect zero every time.

                              I'm not sure it's needed, but it's there as a redundancy.

                              I'm also trying to watch the complexity as complexity = weight = slower lock time, which we don't want.

                              Josh
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