Need front sight ideas - Interarms Rossi 92 rifle

[ScottZ]

I recently picked up an Interarms Rossi 92 24" half octagonal .45 Colt. I have a tang peep sight and a folding rear sight on order and would like to upgrade the front sight. This model does not have a dovetail mounted front sight, instead, it has a brass blade pinned into the barrel band. I may try to make a replacement blade with a fiber optic insert but wanted to see if there were any ready made solutions available. If not, I'm thinking of brazing a small diameter brass tube to a brass blade so I can slip a fiber optic rod into it.

[J Miller]

ScottZ,

Welcome to the forum.

Here is what I would do: Call VTI { https://www.vtigunparts.com/ } and buy a real magazine hanger and pin. I suggest them because I do not know for sure who else might have Rossi parts.
Have the bottom of the barrel dove tailed for the hanger, then have the top of the barrel dovetailed for a sight.
Then throw that stupid barrel band sight in the trash.

That bb sight was Rossi's idea of a cheap way to do that. Have you ever seen a Winchester 1/2 round - 1/2 octagon barrel with a band on the end of it? I haven't.

Joe

[Griff]

That bb sight was Rossi's idea of a cheap way to do that. Have you ever seen a Winchester 1/2 round - 1/2 octagon barrel with a band on the end of it? I haven't.
Joe

What Joe said... but I have seen one... easily recognized as a do-it-yourselfer conversion... ugly is the nice terminology!
And yes, , Welcome to THE Forum.

[ScottZ]

I don't have the BB sight, as I said, I have a brass blade that is pinned.

[J Miller]

I recently picked up an Interarms Rossi 92 24" half octagonal .45 Colt. I have a tang peep sight and a folding rear sight on order and would like to upgrade the front sight. This model does not have a dovetail mounted front sight, instead, it has a brass blade pinned into the barrel band. I may try to make a replacement blade with a fiber optic insert but wanted to see if there were any ready made solutions available. If not, I'm thinking of brazing a small diameter brass tube to a brass blade so I can slip a fiber optic rod into it.

You said you did. BB is short for barrel band and you said you have a brass blade pinned into the barrel band. That makes it a barrel band sight.

My biggest dislike for those is if you bump that barrel band, there is a good chance it will move and then your sight adjustment goes out of adjustment.

Joe

[ScottZ]

My mistake, I thought you were talking about the ones with the small round brass bead inserted into the blade, that looks kinda like a BB.

[FatJackDurham]

Nate Kiowa Jones on this forum offers to make front bead sights on the front band.

You could grind the front band down to eliminate the sight, and cut a shallow dovetail in front of it for a bead sight.

I eliminated the band altogether on mine by cutting a dovetail above and below. I made a threaded insert below and screwed the mag tube to it, and made the top dovetail undersized to I could fit the front sight to it. The dove tails are very shallow, I think 3/32 deep at the most. My barrel is a .357 magnum carbine, and at the muzzle it measured about 8/32 thick. I didn't dare cut the dove tails deeper.

Yours being a 45 colt, the barrel may not be thick enough to cut a dove tail at all, even if you ground the front band smooth and put the dove tail behind it, as you see insome of the newer 92's.

Do a search for Steve's Gunz and check out his offering's.