Originally Posted by OldmanoftheSea
SS,
If I am understanding you correctly, the under surface of the dovetail below where you marked your arrows is not contacting your sight even with your shim which is between the horizontal surface and your sight.Wouldn't a few layers of paint on the bottom of the sight provide enough upward pressure to engage those surfaces?


I think the paint would peel off when pushing the sight in. I used .002 brass him stock and then peened down the top of the dove tail as it was pushed up a tad bit higher than the flat of the barrel.Then I carefully center punch a about 6 places on the flat of the dove tail. It seems to be fairly snug now.
Now once I get it zeroed in with the bullet I will be using, I will put a small bead of back epoxy one each corner of the dove tail as a back up.

Thanks to everyone for their ideas and responses.It helped me out a lot

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