Thread: Aperture, peep, sight for Baikal IZH-18MH.

Hi Guys. Am setting up my old Baikal with a peep sight. Williams Savage 54 will work but struggeling to get my hands on one. Looking to get a longer sight plane. It's a camp rifle, so don't want to get to carried away. Something that will fit onto the chamber dove tail will work. Any ideas? A spare time project. Cheers

RIMFIRE GROOVE SIGHTS

I have bought a couple of sights off these guys in the past very nice. Not sure if they still do international quick email will tell.

If that's the incorrect groove size plenty on there to choose from get a gunsmith to tap the top.

Thanks Bundook. Looks very promising. Cheers

Thanks for the heads up. They do ship, sights on the way. Cheers

Hi, nice setup and most fun rifle in my safe, I also installed skinner sight but then front sight post was too short, but reasinably easy fix making a taller sight with a 1inch wood drill bit replacing factory post, a spot weld and some dremel work. Heat and blue in oil and shoots like a dream.

@Hatz. Done and dusted now. Looks great. Going to range on Thursday. Hope I don't have issue with foresight, let you know. Cheers

nope...you HAVENT POSTED PHOTOS YET.......chop chop ol chum LOL

@Bundook. Sights arrived, now fitted. Rock solid, great bit of gear. Thanks again

@Hatz, rifle got put on back burner for awhile but now back on bench. If you still have yours can you give me the height of your new foresight blade? From top of ramp to tip of blade. Will give me a baseline to work with. @Micky Duck, yep, photo for sure

Sorry dont have rifle anymore, just clamp/tie something onto barrel and zero through barrel and over clamped sight(Looking through peep) to get hight.

Yep, tried that, old eyes I think. Have made 3 different blade heights. Will post my desired height when finished mucking around. For future reference.

a meter ruler should be able to be sat in rear sight groove,lined up with guts of aperture and give you right height for blade....if you have ruler between the rear v and existing blade...the difference between it and aperture will/should be same needed for front blade..eg 2mm lower it rear need 2mm lower at front..sort of thing. looking forward to seeing your end result..my crude sights let me down today.

Thanks @Micky Duck. I'll give that a go. Got three blades made, hopefully one will be close.

@Micky Duck photo as promised. For anyone attempting the same, this is what I used. Handy bit of metal lying around, angle grinder with cutting blade, bastard file, 2mm drill bit (several actually) and small bolt cutters. Blade measures .365 from top of foresight ramp to top of blade. I cut the existing spring in half with bolt cutters (really tough bugger side cutters not up to it). Placed half spring on front screw instead of rear. Cut blade to measure so sits flush on top of rear screw and rests against rear of front screw, Half spring produces sufficient tension so blade doesn't move. Cureently shoots 3" high at 100 meters with skinner sight as low as it will go. That was with factory ammo. I'll see what it does with my home loads before I muck around anymore.

hmmmm so you need bugger all more height to be just about ideal....wonder if you can somehow put a bead on top??? so you have a circular front to poke in guts of circular rear..... the hori in me says a shotgun bead threaded down into your blade..... you can get some very small beads that would be just about perfect,the drilling hole into blade top to thread it will be the challenge....