I have a shoot tomorrow, and decided tonight that the rear sight on my Marlin #2 cowboy .45 Special conversion had to go. Unlike #1, this gun had the original rear sight, that does not fold down, and I plain don't like it sticking up there while I'm using a Marbles peep.
With no time to ORDER a slot blank, a quick and dirty filler had to do.
So, I snipped a piece of dead soft lead (recovered bullet) to about the right size, and using a small brass hammer and brass plate anvil, beat it into a roughly "brick shaped" rectangle just about as wide as the narrow aspect of the slot, and just about as long, but too tall. Then I peened the lead into the slot, trimming and final shaping uising a piece of sheet brass under the hammer as a "leveller", and the same sheet brass as a scraper.
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I don't expect Tiffany's will be hiring me any time soon, but it'll work,and only took about 15 minutes
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