Good afternoon, everybody,
I am new here - I haven't attended an Appleseed clinic yet but an signed up for one in April. The only rifle I owned was an SKS, so I started looking for a Marlin 795 or Model 60. Both of those (along with 10/22's) were sold out for miles around my location. I finally found a pawn shop with an old Marlin Glenfield Model 75. The guy at the pawn shop told me that the Model 75 was a shorter barreled version of the Model 60, which does seem to be largely true. So I bought the rifle and ordered Tech Sights for it.
Well, there is a bit of a hitch, however - the rear tech sight fits just fine on the receiver, however the front sight on the Model 75 has a barrel band (around the barrel only, not around the magazine tube like the older model 60's do.
So my question is, if I remove the little pin that unscrews from the front ramp sight, can I take a block and a mallet and beat the front sight band off? will the barrel be blued underneath? Has anybody done this before?
By the way, I guess installing the front tech sight would also involve drilling a tapping a small hole too.
I know this sounds like a pain in the rump roast, however I have shot this rifle and it is really fun to shoot and seems to be pretty accurate considering I haven't really trained with it yet.
Has anybody done this before?
Thanks for any thoughts on this...