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Installing a receiver sight.

Is this still bread and butter gunsmithing?

Or is it only for an old craftsman in a dusty room?

2 hour job, or all day?

Sycamore

It is a relatively simple job for someone that knows what they are doing...

The title of this post gives me the shivering bejabbers because I have the vision of somebody laying a pristine model 71 Winchester 348 across the roof of a dog house in the middle of a bunch of abandoned Farmall tractors, and drilling it with a handheld 1/2 inch drill and a rusty bit!

no, I will clean up the bit with some steel wool and sewing machine oil, first!

After marking the receiver with a nail punch and a ball-peen hammer.

I'm just trying to see if I can have this done in state, or have to send the rifle off.

Experienced gunsmiths keep passing away at an alarming rate.

And mounting a receiver sight is probably not that common anymore (my guess)

Sycamore

God, you are a cruel man...

Why don't you just send me that Model 71 and I'll trade you a J C Higgins single shot 16 gauge with a Poly Choke and a near full box of shells as trade. No boot needed as long as you pay shipping both ways.
Seriously, any decent smith should be able to drill and tap a receiver on a model 71.

Fred

is it a tactical jc higgins, or just the regular kind? any kind of camo?

Not like your gonna' send the thing to Mars, ya' know.

Second year apprentice work.

Lotsa' luck, in today's snap together Leggo shops.

GTC

CFO,

I think you expressed my concerns well. Between the loss of experienced folks, the increasing scarcity of receiver sights, and focus on aftermarket ar-15 stuff, the trick is to find someone who still does this work enough to be set up, and comfortable with it.

Sycamore