Hello. I have a unique problem with my AMD 65's front sight block. Luckily it is not connected to the gas block, so I don't have to worry about that.
I had that AK zeroed, beautifully, shortly after I had it. The windage was right in the center and the gas block was strait. OUT OF NO WHERE, and I do not recall hitting it hard enough, or anything that would cause this, the rifle is off zero. So I commence to zeroing it back in. It takes the windage to be as far left as possible. It can't go anymore, so if the post was canted even a hair, I would not be able to zero my rifle. I tried to smack the post back a little, but it wouldn't budge. So I don't know what could have caused this.
I know that a canted post is no big deal as long as it can be zeroed with windage adjustments. I don't mind the funky look. The thing that is bugging, first, is that I don't know how the gas block is so tight on there, but somehow became canted. I am afraid and confident that it will cant even more, to the point where windage won't help. So I was thinking about putting it into a vice and giving it a hammering.
I have tried a couple of local gun shops with no luck. There are only two that I got ahold of that had a gunsmith. One would have my rifle for, "a few months". Not an option. The other literally could not understand that AKs exist with front sights that aren't connected to the gas block and didn't know how to tell me if they could fix it, or not. They had me on hold for 15 minute intervals and every new employee would get dumber. One came back and started telling me the price of a gas block, after 5 minutes of me explaining to him that I needed the sight post uncanted and it had nothing to do with the gas block. I explained to another, in the simplest way possible that I just needed the front post aligned, it would have nothing to do with the gas port, and all they had to do was move it to the left a couple of millimeters or so. I guess he got so brain dead, he just hung up on me. Then when I called back and asked to speak with a person who had enough experience with firearms and could answer my questions, he told me I, "wasn't experienced enough to get the name of the guy that hung up on me", and just started saying bizarre, irrelevant things obviously aimed to try and piss me off. I just hung up. This place is gun central, in El Paso TX. Never going there again. Hahaha, this reminds me, and sorry I'm babbling now, but I asked an employee to hand me a Del Ton AR 15 off of the wall and he gave me a WASR 10. I informed him of his mistake so he changed the subject to try and sell me an ak that he "spray painted to be invisible to the naked eye in the woods". No woods around these parts. Anyway, my point is these guys are beyond strange and I am out of options for professional help.
SO! Please advise me. Should I take the hammer to it? If it moves a hair, it will be permanently unzeroable, until I get it uncanted and/or rely on my Aimpoint T1, which is not an option and I will not rely solely on it. Irons are the most important of the two, to me.
Thank you for your time, and I appreciate ANY help. God bless.
I had that AK zeroed, beautifully, shortly after I had it. The windage was right in the center and the gas block was strait. OUT OF NO WHERE, and I do not recall hitting it hard enough, or anything that would cause this, the rifle is off zero. So I commence to zeroing it back in. It takes the windage to be as far left as possible. It can't go anymore, so if the post was canted even a hair, I would not be able to zero my rifle. I tried to smack the post back a little, but it wouldn't budge. So I don't know what could have caused this.
I know that a canted post is no big deal as long as it can be zeroed with windage adjustments. I don't mind the funky look. The thing that is bugging, first, is that I don't know how the gas block is so tight on there, but somehow became canted. I am afraid and confident that it will cant even more, to the point where windage won't help. So I was thinking about putting it into a vice and giving it a hammering.
I have tried a couple of local gun shops with no luck. There are only two that I got ahold of that had a gunsmith. One would have my rifle for, "a few months". Not an option. The other literally could not understand that AKs exist with front sights that aren't connected to the gas block and didn't know how to tell me if they could fix it, or not. They had me on hold for 15 minute intervals and every new employee would get dumber. One came back and started telling me the price of a gas block, after 5 minutes of me explaining to him that I needed the sight post uncanted and it had nothing to do with the gas block. I explained to another, in the simplest way possible that I just needed the front post aligned, it would have nothing to do with the gas port, and all they had to do was move it to the left a couple of millimeters or so. I guess he got so brain dead, he just hung up on me. Then when I called back and asked to speak with a person who had enough experience with firearms and could answer my questions, he told me I, "wasn't experienced enough to get the name of the guy that hung up on me", and just started saying bizarre, irrelevant things obviously aimed to try and piss me off. I just hung up. This place is gun central, in El Paso TX. Never going there again. Hahaha, this reminds me, and sorry I'm babbling now, but I asked an employee to hand me a Del Ton AR 15 off of the wall and he gave me a WASR 10. I informed him of his mistake so he changed the subject to try and sell me an ak that he "spray painted to be invisible to the naked eye in the woods". No woods around these parts. Anyway, my point is these guys are beyond strange and I am out of options for professional help.
SO! Please advise me. Should I take the hammer to it? If it moves a hair, it will be permanently unzeroable, until I get it uncanted and/or rely on my Aimpoint T1, which is not an option and I will not rely solely on it. Irons are the most important of the two, to me.
Thank you for your time, and I appreciate ANY help. God bless.
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