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After losing an opportunity on a nice buck lst year due to a fogged scope I decided to convert my smokeless muzzle loader to see thru mounts and iron sights. Being a gorilla I've always been nervous when tapping anything smaller than 1/4-20 and I've never even attempted 6-48 blind holes in a rifle barrel. After local gunsmiths said they were backed up from 10 to 12 weeks I decided it's time to man up and learn how to do this. With little patience, a quality bottom tap and a spring loaded tap guide it turned out to be fairly easy. I had to remove my NIKON 2.5-10x50 in favor of a Leopold 2-7x32 as the 50mm objective bell hit the rear sight. I had to fab the front sight as I couldn't find a suitable factory blade.
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