Tech Sights Owners - Sight Alignment Issues

[TKM]

Yeah... I noticed that last night. Even though the title of thread says Tech Sights Owners. He must not have them, or doesn't have them on a 10/22.

I've actually got them mounted on a 10/22 Fungun build from Ojisan. It's a neat looking kit but the sights leave something to be desired. Tech Sight to the rescue. I had to loctite the front sight to a thread protector and install the rear sight between the ears of the Fungun rear sight.

http://www.1022fungun.com/store/pc/home.asp

I just have so many 10/22s that it is hard to keep track.

[Darryl Licht]

I've actually got them mounted on a 10/22 Fungun build from Ojisan. It's a neat looking kit but the sights leave something to be desired. Tech Sight to the rescue. I had to loctite the front sight to a thread protector and install the rear sight between the ears of the Fungun rear sight.

http://www.1022fungun.com/store/pc/home.asp

I just have so many 10/22s that it is hard to keep track.

My bad... but how would you do the eyeball test you described below on a 10/22 with tech sights?? When the rear sight is mounted to the receiver and not the barrel?

Pull the barrel and find a steady rest of some kind. Look through the barrel and find a small target at about 100 yards, reflectors work well. Are the Tech sights still all Marty Feldman when on target? It should be really obvious what part of the equation is off.

[Darryl Licht]

I chucked my leveled fore to aft barreled action up in a padded machine vise, put a level across the ears on the rear ears making sure they were leveled left to right, and put a level on the front of the barrel, on the dovetail to check left to right. When both were level, I locked the barrel down with the Gunsmither block. It worked just fine, owing to the precision of the Tech Sights machining. I own one Tech and two Nodaks, here's the proof...
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I CAN SEE YOU LOVE HOGUE STOCKS!!!
Also are you sure you didn't mean one Nodak and two Tech Sights? <--- I see two Tech Sight front sights in your photo. LOL!

So you put gun in on its side and once you establish the gun is level then you checked the ears front to back for level?

Either way I got it sorted out... the V-block needed to be loosened and then it was easy to get on target with the boresighter. Tightened it all back up and now I'm ready for the range!

['ol shooter]

Hogues just on the trainers, laminate or walnut on all the others (lots more than I should have). Yeah, one of the sights is a hybrid, Tech in front and Nodak in back, works good except that even with the taller NM post the Tech won't sight closer than 50 yards. I bought the Nodak for it and am going to buy the new rail mount Tech for a Compact stocked build for the dimensionally challenged Appleseeder's and will use the Tech front on it. I like the Hogues for trainers and field rifle, they take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.

['ol shooter]

I guess I'm not a very good explainer. I put the barreled action in a machinists vise, sitting straight up, like shooting position, level the receiver front to back. Then, lay a level across the rear sight ears, left to right, and make sure the receiver is level in that direction. Lay a level across the front dovetail, left to right. Turn the barrel as required to level the front. When both bubbles are centered, the sights will be aligned when it is all assembled. Hope I did better this time. I should take pictures.

[Darryl Licht]

I guess I'm not a very good explainer. I put the barreled action in a machinists vise, sitting straight up, like shooting position, level the receiver front to back. Then, lay a level across the rear sight ears, left to right, and make sure the receiver is level in that direction. Lay a level across the front dovetail, left to right. Turn the barrel as required to level the front. When both bubbles are centered, the sights will be aligned when it is all assembled. Hope I did better this time. I should take pictures.

That's what I thought, thanks for 'splaining it to me!

[TKM]

My bad... but how would you do the eyeball test you described below on a 10/22 with tech sights?? When the rear sight is mounted to the receiver and not the barrel?

I've drilled a hole in the back of a few 10/22receivers so I can clean them from the correct end without disassembling the whole works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ2zxnMzhTk

It's a common mod and I've just taken to mounting the barreled action in a vise for the rough bore-sight. Fine-tuning is done at an indoor range so when I miss in the wild it's all me.