puting a Ruger front sight on a frontier rifle

[canuck4570]

I have a Ruger frontier rifle in 358 winchester and I have noticed that the diameter of the barrel is exacly the same has my ruger no 1 in 4570..... that is both are .670.... so I will buy from brownell the front sight and put it on the frontier and use has a peep sight the NECG rear peep.... what I woul like to know is glueing this sight on will it be ok or you have a better idea..... I have phoned Ruger and they said to me that the front sight is lock with a set screw and sweated on.....if glue will do please give me the name....thank you for your time Canuck....

[leftiye]

The screw is to hold the sight in position while it is "sweated" (soldered) on. Silver solder is usually the solder of choice. I don't know if a glue would work. Ventilated ribs on shotguns used to (not all of them) be glued on with a thing called Poly Choke adhesive. Worked fine for me for a rib on a bull barrel .38, but I never tried it on anything else.

[timkelley]

I had the sight off of a 357 B'hawk and put it back with JB Weld, it has held for a year now.

[canuck4570]

thank you.... and to your opinion could this affect the precision of the rifle.... it is very accurate with everything .....Canuck

[Ben]

I have several rifles ( 06', 308 Win. 8 mm's , etc ) with front sights put on with JB Weld. Never moved a millionth of an inch since installation.

Better be " Dog Gone Certain " that your sight is in perfect alignment during the installation process. Once the JB Weld is hardened, you won't be moving anything ! ! !

Ben

[canuck4570]

where do I get JB weld....