Thread: Self isolation gun projects

Finished this a while ago, but lockdown finally got me to post about it.
Decided I wanted some front and rear sights for a single shot rifle but didn’t have enough time to do it in the workshop, so modelled it with 5 minutes here and there and then printed it instead.
Ultimately these were to test the idea and adjust rather than a finished product, but they worked out really well. Great way to prototype stuff or just make something tough and lightweight quickly.


Front sight is a keyed insert so you can change it out as you want – the triangular profile was made to be filed down for testing but ended up not needing to file. Next version would be carbon fibre for rigidity and have a fibre optic insert for low light.


Rear sight is elevation adjustable with a through-drilled hex head screw and nut assembly. I pressed a disk onto the head of the screw to block the right a bit better. Printed the rail too just for fun – A carbon fibre rail would actually work quite well. In the future I’ll probably either make the rear sight a clamp-on unit or built it into the rail so it can fold away when not in use and not interfere with a scope.