Thread: SMLE No 1 Mk3* Front sight adjustment tool where to get?

You can drift it with a brass punch and a hammer. THats how you adjust a lot of open sights. Support the base of the sight on something hard when you hit it. (not the barrel) I often use the the thick end of an axe blade, or another hammer head. Or a vise. Lay it so a hard steel is holding the sight base, and then hit the front sight with the punch at its base where it is slotted in the dovetail.
Have a good look at the front sight blade from the front before you start, as if its from teh army and no one has moved it before then it may still be staked in place, this just means the armourer hit it on top with a punch himself and deformed the base with a dimple so it would be harder to move in its dovetail by accident. In this event, it will just be harder to drift yourself. There is no trick to it. Hit it smartly until it starts moving.