Taking the front sight off of a Remington 700 BDL...?

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Anyone know exactly how to do it without scratching the sight or anything else? Any information would be great. Thanks in advance!

[WIG19]

Sight hood comes off, sliding in its grooves. With barrel in padded vise, drift out the sight blade with a brass drift punch. You want the barrel area in the vise that is closest to the sight at the muzzle end to prevent unnecessary leverage on the barrel. Now...

Before you get cranking on the screws, search high & low for the absolute best fit screwdriver blade you can find to the screwheads. This will let you apply the best amount of torque and avoid buggering up the screws. Additionally, I'd suggest you mask off the area around where you're going to be working for when you slip - but then if you have the proper screw bit you've gone a long way toward avoiding that. ;) Likewise the barrel area around the rearmost screw; at least cover it so if you slip you don't scratch the barrel.

Check with your local gunshop, etc., and ask them if they have a couple of the proper size plug screws floating around in their big plastic tackle-box lookin' case they use for that stuff. (4 if you're removing the rear sight as well.) The proper size plug screws DO exist, are very common, will go in easily, and will be FLUSH.

Now put the forward screw back in the sight, tap the sight blade back a bit into the dovetail to cover it, put the rear screw & hood and the sight into a little plastic bag and put it away.

Have fun.
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Excellent post, thank you very much WIG19! I have a brownells gunsmithing screwdriver kit so I have the proper sized blade taken care of, I just needed a little info on the rest. I greatly appreciate it, that was exactly what I was looking for!