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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: syoungs on February 23, 2017, 08:43:14 PM

Title: Help removing sight on Taurus revolvers!
Post by: syoungs on February 23, 2017, 08:43:14 PM: So I've got a Taurus tracker 44, that broke it's rear sight after the 5th round was fired, wouldn't hold a zero. Taurus sent me a replacement sight a couple weeks ago, looks real easy to drive the roll pin out, swap the sight, drive the pin back in....

Looks real easy. But the pin don't move, I ended up bending my cheap punch, and I'm afraid to keep going at it and peening the pin in or something.

Any tips or tricks to get it out? Or should I bite the bullet and just drop it at a Smith?
Title: Re: Help removing sight on Taurus revolvers!
Post by: Bofire on February 23, 2017, 08:47:45 PM: Smith
Carl
Title: Re: Help removing sight on Taurus revolvers!
Post by: syoungs on February 23, 2017, 09:30:05 PM: :bash:. Your right. Hopefully they don't take 5 months to get it back to me! Might just send it back to the factory, that's the other option.
Title: Re: Help removing sight on Taurus revolvers!
Post by: Evil_EdwardO on February 24, 2017, 08:16:01 AM: Are you possibly knocking the pin in the wrong direction?
Title: Re: Help removing sight on Taurus revolvers!
Post by: j_h_nimrod on February 24, 2017, 09:07:10 AM: Quote from: Evil_EdwardO on February 24, 2017, 08:16:01 AM
Are you possibly knocking the pin in the wrong direction?

As far as I know they don't use a tapered pin, but trying from the opposite side can't hurt. Make sure your punch is small enough as well, I remember some of these pins that were slightly smaller than a standard 1/16" punch.
Title: Re: Help removing sight on Taurus revolvers!
Post by: syoungs on February 24, 2017, 09:35:15 PM: I went both directions yeah, the punch is smaller then the pin for sure, but the pin has a somewhat rounded head, making it tough to get a good solid punch, with the punch. My biggest hurdle is just supporting the gun while trying to hammer on it.
Gonna swing it by cowboys and Indians tomorrow to have them take a look at it.
Title: Re: Help removing sight on Taurus revolvers!
Post by: Blacklab on February 26, 2017, 08:03:42 AM: A ole friend had or has a tracker 357. Three shots and the front sight fell out :chuckle:
Title: Re: Help removing sight on Taurus revolvers!
Post by: ndcasla on February 26, 2017, 08:42:49 AM: Send it to Taurus for repair. I had a problem with a mdl 85, sent it to them, got it back in about a month fixed.