Mossberg Ghost Ring Sight Adjustments

[Once A Marine]

I'm preparing to zero my ghost ring sights on the 590A1, and the manual has a nice diagram on windage/elevation adjustments. You're supposed to turn a wheel under the ring for elevation, but I cannot seem to make it move easily as there are raised parts on the wheel that hit against parts of the sight leaf.

Now I guess they are there to provide positive lock of the sight, but is there a trick to overcoming those, or are they normally so friggin tight you cannot turn the wheel with your fingers?

[Once A Marine]

Nevermind - I see how it works. I pull up on the ring, spin the wheel to the next set of stops.

[97F1504RAD]

Did you install the sight yourself or did they come on the gun? If you did the install how difficult was it?

[Once A Marine]

It was factory installed. Putting the rear ring assembly on shouldn't be hard - the front sight post needs to be soldered onto the barrel, which might pose a problem depending on your equipment and experience.

[SPaikmos]

Nevermind - I see how it works. I pull up on the ring, spin the wheel to the next set of stops.

I was gonna say... silly marine!

[Once A Marine]

We didn't have sights like that on the 590s when I was in the Marines. I've never ran into a sight like that in all my 30 plus years of shooting. Who would ever naturally think of pulling on the ring to make the adjustments?

[97F1504RAD]

It was factory installed. Putting the rear ring assembly on shouldn't be hard - the front sight post needs to be soldered onto the barrel, which might pose a problem depending on your equipment and experience.

Yeah I did not figure the rear one would be to difficult but it did have a warning that a gunsmith would need to install it which is what has prevented me from buying one at this point.

[jdewolf]

Haha it's a bit of a pain, I ran into the same problem on my GR's on my 590A1. It's a great shotgun even if the GR's are a bit of a pain. Although I think the 930SPX has a slightly different style of GR that has more user friendly adjustment knob.