Blackpowdersmoke

Extra front sights are a good thing, but I'd rather rely on the adjustable rear sight. I've had several ML's over the years that the adjustable rear sight was bottomed out and they still hit way too high at a relatively short range of 30-40 yards because the front blade was too short. And this was with relatively light loads of 50 gr. or less.

Well... ya can't file the front sight because it's only gonna cause you to shoot higher so here's what I did...

I took a sliver of black electrician's tape and wrapped it onto the front sight as if wrapping it from the face of the sight that you see looking toward the muzzle. I trimmed some off as it was excessively too much (you can always put another piece of tape on). I fired a few shots to get a "feel" for things and then with a single edged razor, I shaved a little at a time off the top of the tape until I was still a bit low but was now able to begin adjusting my rear sights up again. I played around with both until I had my rear sights about in the middle of their adjustment range and stopped.

I then took a measurement of the height from the flat of my barrel to the top of the "taped" front sight and ordered a front sight that would be of that (close proximity) height.

I have bought several replacement front sights from MarbleArms company. They have a lot of different dovetailed front sight styles and heights to suit your needs and they factor in your distance from the base of the sight whether it's a standard or mm dovetail... depending.

Here's a helpful link...

http://www.midwayusa.com/s?targetLoc...front%2Bsights

BPS