Rear Sight...

[Powerkraut]

I have a really hard time trusting a sight mounted on the cocking piece. Outside of increased sight radius, why wouldn't you make a receiver mounted sight?

[Josh Smith]

I have a really hard time trusting a sight mounted on the cocking piece. Outside of increased sight radius, why wouldn't you make a receiver mounted sight?

Hello,

Most people do have trouble with this, and it's something I understand.

There are a couple reasons for making it this way. First, it's easy to change it back to normal. Second, the closer to the eye, the more effective a peep sight is.

If someone wants me to make this for him, it would be a lot easier for him to unscrew the cocking piece and install mine than it would be to drill and tap the receiver.

I have this returning to zero the same way each time. I sent out a few units for feedback and they are all positive. The one negative (impact is a little low) has been fixed and had nothing to do with the movement of the cocking piece.

Interestingly, I was written by a couple older gunsmiths who used to do this mod back about 40, 50 years ago. I knew nothing about this, but it turns out they did something similar (Pacific sold a peep sight mounted in a similar fashion) and the Mosin had no trouble with it back then, even without the mods I've done to the cocking piece to keep it returning to zero.

Regards,

Josh

[Powerkraut]

I'd seen on a few forums where people had drilled and tapped the cocking piece for a sling swivel screw. At the time it seemed ridiculous. I'm looking for a peep sight for a mosin project I'm working on. I guess at $45 a pop it's hard to say no. What are your shipping times looking like?

[Josh Smith]

For the rear sight, we're currently looking at 1-2 weeks.

I've made some improvements in the spring system holding the ball bearing -- it's now a dual-spring setup -- and that takes some machining.

Just ordered some more cocking pieces and look for them to arrive early to mid-next-week. My supplier is still recovering from the panic buy last month.

Might send you the prototype version with the interchangeable peeps, if I have it looking acceptable by then... should be!

Regards,

Josh

[Powerkraut]

Awesome man, already placed an order.

[Josh Smith]

And sorry for the pics above not showing up. Photobucket is having problems with their Pro accounts, which I have. The pics should be back up shortly, according to them.

Regards,

Josh

[6mmintl]

The moison team is still looking for a Combat Mauser rifle team and not a swedish target rifle team.