Canted front sight

[Mustang5L5]

Oh I definitely will put some sort of optic on it. My range is only 100 yards, so it's not as critically for me just yet.

But with iron sights at 100 yards this is what I can do.....even with 16 clicks right.

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[oneyeopn]

Yep thats what caused me to put optics on and then the optics werent strong enough so I kept putting bigger optics to where I now have a 4-16x42 on it and keep thinking that I want to go to a 6-24x42 cause I spend alot of time out at 16...LOL And if i put a railed gas block with folding front sight I have a 8-32 that keeps calling to me.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Well, it's been a few months. I got myself a red dot and put the BUIS back on. I'm 17 clicks to the right to zero it and when I flip the sight up, it just doesnt look roght.


Seeing as I'm about 1 hr from the S&W warranty repair center in Springfield, I might take a ride over and get this fixed. It's bugging me now.

 

[oneyeopn]

Yep, I remember you telling us about it, and I remember when I wasnt running a 6-24x50 scope. Might as well get her fixed. Let us know how it goes.

 

[JaPes]

Seeing as I'm about 1 hr from the S&W warranty repair center in Springfield, I might take a ride over and get this fixed. It's bugging me now.

That sounds like a plan. Most of us would be giddy to be that close to a firearms manufacturer's warranty repair center.

 

[Plazzman]

My Sport I found was slightly canted also when I had sighted it in for the first time. Well that was all corrected by chance when I decided to added a YHM-100 upper. I noticed the canting was gone. I believe the indexing cut on the Sport upper was off. There was also no play between the barrel extension indexing pin and the upper cut out on either uppers. The canting really did not bother me. I just accidentally corrected it with a new upper.

 

[Milky]

I thought mine was off to the left but it is not, it appears to be an optical illusion for my eyes I guess. others look and say it dead center. I checked a few in the gun shop and to me they were off also.

In the picture you posted it doesn't look like the camera is lined up dead on, the camera looks to be off to the left some.

Most likely this^^^^^
Try a better cheek weld and line up the rear sight a little better in relation to the front sight. If the front sight shield (for lack of better term) is to close to the edge of your peep sight then an optical illusion will occur leading you to believe your front sight is canted (this has been my experience).

Of course double check the front sight if it's canted you will be able to see while inspecting without looking through the peep. Or while looking through the peep switch to the bigger (low light close range circle) aperture line up the sights and see if the illusion goes away.