well, many of them, but besides being too old, lazy, broke, retired...wait, THAT'S not a problem, the retirement thing...
Anyway, I digress. I have a problem trying to change rear sights on my Ranch Hand. How in the HECK did Rossi install
them, welding??? Now, I'm no gunsmith, but I figured I'd change out the rear for a Skinner peep sight, which was an exercise in patience,
trying to get it through Canada Customs. I've only changed irons on a couple of guns over the years, and my recollection of the process in past has been along the lines of take a drift punch, apply it to the dovetail of the sight, bang on that bad boy with a hammer until you drifted (see what I did there?) it right out of the dovetail.
Problem I'm having is that DANG thing will NOT move! Do I;
- Get a bigger hammer?
- try and freeze it to shrink it enough to move?
- try to heat it off? ( I dunno...covering all the options I can think of...)
- dynamite???
I'm seriously wondering if I woke up stupid today, or stupid & weak, or...???
I'm hoping one of you folks with vast amounts of experience has a suggestion, or do I just keep beating on it until my arm gets (really) tired?
In all seriousness, I've never seen a dovetail sight this unwilling to budge. I'm using a brass drift punch & light hammer to try to minimize damage to the buckhorn, but I don't know it'd move with a good wallop from a 2lb. deadblow hammer.
Any tricks or suggestions will be GREATFULLY received!