I swear my Sterling front sight is NOT adjustable for elevation!

[tax_monster]

While I was fiddling with my new end cap latch, I decided to see if I could adjust my front sights, because they were shooting high at 10 yards. I figure since I was blind, I'd sight them to point of aim at 20 yards or so.

- I talked to Andrewski on the phone about this.
- I read the manual
- I read the posts here from other Sterling owners

My Sterling DOES NOT HAVE any hex head bolt or screw to adjust anything with!! There are five holes in the front cap:
1. Big hole for the muzzle
2. Two medium holes for those hex bolts that hold the barrel in the gun
3. Two little holes at 12:00 and 6:00 that simply go through the front cap and seem to serve no purpose.

The manual says there is an adjustment block on the right of the sight, mine has no such block. It appears to me the front sight is simply dovetailed into the front of the gun. I guess I can adjust it for windage using a hammer and punch, but short of filing down the front post, I simply see no possible way to adjust for elevation.

Am I the only one? Or am I simply so clueless and have breathed in so many Butch's Bore Shine fumes that I can't see what's plainly in front of me? Do I need to sell all my toys and buy a Hi-Point 9mm carbine? :argue

[tax_monster]

I think I'm understanding this better now and am more certain that I'm not insane.

Look at these pics rsilvers posted (I wish I could take pictures this nice)

http://photomosaic.com/gns/sterling/2.jpg
Notice that there are no holes at 12:00 and 6:00, and look at the way the front sight sits - kind of like a stick in a hole.


http://photomosaic.com/gns/sterling/3.jpg
Look at the side of the front sight - that clearly is the adjustment screw I've been looking for on my gun but couldn't find.

Here are my crummy pics of my gun:

Here's my front sight as viewed from the front of the gun.
http://tinypic.com/dgx7o

Here's my sight from the side - no adjustment screw hole!
http://tinypic.com/dgx9j

It seems obvious to me now that I simply have a drfit adjustable sight and that's it. Anyone else have a front sight like this?

[L34A1]

Page 121 of The Guns of Dagenham. You have an old Mk4 sight, one of seven models they made. I had a kit with the same, I ordered a new ajustable one from PS Arms.

[tax_monster]

I really need to buy that book.

[Mario_FAMO,Inc]

what are you going to do about the elevation adjustment?

[tax_monster]

Aim 2" low. :D

[MuzzleFlash]

Originally posted by tax_monster
I really need to buy that book. Sources:

http://www.uzitalk.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5791&postid=40220#post40220

[Leroy]

My only conclusion can be that, the parts kit used were from the lower end of what IMA has to offer from the parts bin.

I almost posted or should post about the "select" parts kits from IMA for a extra 15.00 charge.
I just received 2 "select" parts kits from IMA that were so very bad that they made the ones I received 5 years ago, that were not "select", look like diamonds!
I kid you not, these 2 recent kits look like crap! They are supposed to be select at an extra cost of 15.00 bucks each, they were merely selected from the others in the parts bin is all.
These really look nasty, rust, wear or worn out completely in condition.
Even the 1 mag for each kit looked very bad and are useless in condition, the one mag had the back area lip torn away from the metal.
When the mag is so worn that the lips don't or can't run paralel to the rear area of the mag where it should meet the radius area, they can't be ajusted to feed, as the lips brought inward to hold at the correct paralel distance, after being shaved out from use, will hold the 9mm in too close to allow proper feeding. This can be cured if one were to, either add material or work the metal out to then shave even, both are not easy in task. Also if you hammer out the metal, the lips will be so weak as to allow a full mag that is left overnight or an extended period of time, to bend the lips like a sten mag will or worse, as they become extreemly thin.
I suggest that if anyone buys the parts kits, don't bother to pay extra for select, they should all be the same. If what I bought was turely hand picked in selection, I should think that ones that are not, are not even worth the asking much worth useing.
One had flat standard screws for the muzzle cap, the other had the knurled alan head screws from the latter Sterlings.
I have yet to date the parts and the contracts, but one looks like that from India, and the other from the fazackery plant or Enfield.
If I were to choose a Sterling made from these parts without serious attention to reworking and heat treating the the diconnect or replacement, and all other parts reworked like the one endap that is so tired I would call it scrap, and the choice of a Sten that has seen very few rounds, I would have to go with the Sten.
These kits would make a C-II earn the money on the conversion.
At least I would not convert a well working Sten with these parts as they are in their "as is" condition.
Those extra holes that you have are for the muzzlecap removel tool that unscrews the endcap, that is a plus, however I have never needed to remove the muzzlecap and probably never will.
None of the parts kits that I have observed from IMA looked to all have been parts from the same gun.