Dutchman
09-30-2009, 06:57 PM
The Elit kornring (front sight) are expensive. And the unique inserts are hard to find and to my eye rather coarse. The Elit kornring itself is a good sight, the best IMO.
http://images44.fotki.com/v1461/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts08-vi.jpg
For rifles that have a threaded muzzle, the m/96b, there's an alternative... though I wouldn't call it "cheap" or inexpensive. But it solves the problem of lack of inserts once and for all.
http://images45.fotki.com/v1480/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts04-vi.jpg
The muzzles are threaded M14x1mm. I made this thead-on doohinkus.
http://images45.fotki.com/v1480/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts13-vi.jpg
http://images47.fotki.com/v1473/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts15-vi.jpg
http://images49.fotki.com/v1460/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts16-vi.jpg
http://images46.fotki.com/v1482/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts23-vi.jpg
Lee Shaver inserts. Way nice.
http://images47.fotki.com/v1478/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts05-vi.jpg
http://images45.fotki.com/v1481/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts03-vi.jpg
http://images47.fotki.com/v1478/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts02-vi.jpg
It cost about $100 to do this but the resultant shooting improvement is worth far more than that.
The Lyman 17 is a small tiny itty bitty target sight that's ok for .22 rifles with 24 inch barrels. But on the end of a 29" barrel you need a larger globe sight. This Lyman 93 is the same size as the Redfield and Anschutz and almost exactly the same as the Swedish Elit.
I'm going to experiment further with this and make a closed ring with setscrews to replace the Lipski barrel clamp. I can lower the globe a little bit by doing this and make the whole setup less expensive and a bit less bulky.
The obvious question: Why can't you mount the Lyman sight directly to the doohinkus? You could. But the M14x1 threads are not indexed the same for all rifles. It wouldn't line up. The doohinkus gets locktighted in place and the "collar" gets setscrewed (or also pinned) to the collar after its located top-dead-center. If I was doing this for just my own rifle I could make the doohinkus smaller in diameter instead of 3/4" to take the Lipski barrel clamp. All Ar15 front sight doohinkus' are 3/4" diameter, thus laying before the humble feet of thee, the entire universe of front sight doohinkii, the individual inhabitants of doohinkusstan. This grand adaptation of existing technology was created for the betterment of all mankind, including polar bears dying because of polar ice melting from global warming and most of all for the children.
Dutch
http://images44.fotki.com/v1461/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts08-vi.jpg
For rifles that have a threaded muzzle, the m/96b, there's an alternative... though I wouldn't call it "cheap" or inexpensive. But it solves the problem of lack of inserts once and for all.
http://images45.fotki.com/v1480/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts04-vi.jpg
The muzzles are threaded M14x1mm. I made this thead-on doohinkus.
http://images45.fotki.com/v1480/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts13-vi.jpg
http://images47.fotki.com/v1473/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts15-vi.jpg
http://images49.fotki.com/v1460/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts16-vi.jpg
http://images46.fotki.com/v1482/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts23-vi.jpg
Lee Shaver inserts. Way nice.
http://images47.fotki.com/v1478/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts05-vi.jpg
http://images45.fotki.com/v1481/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts03-vi.jpg
http://images47.fotki.com/v1478/photos/4/28344/7364172/ts02-vi.jpg
It cost about $100 to do this but the resultant shooting improvement is worth far more than that.
The Lyman 17 is a small tiny itty bitty target sight that's ok for .22 rifles with 24 inch barrels. But on the end of a 29" barrel you need a larger globe sight. This Lyman 93 is the same size as the Redfield and Anschutz and almost exactly the same as the Swedish Elit.
I'm going to experiment further with this and make a closed ring with setscrews to replace the Lipski barrel clamp. I can lower the globe a little bit by doing this and make the whole setup less expensive and a bit less bulky.
The obvious question: Why can't you mount the Lyman sight directly to the doohinkus? You could. But the M14x1 threads are not indexed the same for all rifles. It wouldn't line up. The doohinkus gets locktighted in place and the "collar" gets setscrewed (or also pinned) to the collar after its located top-dead-center. If I was doing this for just my own rifle I could make the doohinkus smaller in diameter instead of 3/4" to take the Lipski barrel clamp. All Ar15 front sight doohinkus' are 3/4" diameter, thus laying before the humble feet of thee, the entire universe of front sight doohinkii, the individual inhabitants of doohinkusstan. This grand adaptation of existing technology was created for the betterment of all mankind, including polar bears dying because of polar ice melting from global warming and most of all for the children.
Dutch