Man I'm so pissed off at that damn front sight that now I'm even thinking about filing it down and just rip it off. Not suggesting you should do the same thing though. I just got this brand new Gamo Varmint Hunter scope and the light on the scope keeps reflecting off the front sight back into the scope so you can't see a damn thing at night. I've lost boat loads of rabbits because of that.
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Couldn't find a heat gun either so I just took a blow torch and lightly torched the front sight, tugged it a bit with a old Winchester multitool's plier, then got pissed off some more and went back to lightly torching it ... then I just scraped it off with a kitchen knife after the front sight was weak enough. The only thing left to do for me is to put my Gamo Varmint scope back together and get me a muzzle brake.
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Hey, if anyone else wants to remove the front sight, don't worry. You wont have to melt it off with a blow torch or scrape it off with a knife or anything like that. Simply take a block of wood( a 4" piece of 2x4 works great) and tap it off with a hammer. Comes off in one piece and everything. Hope this helps.
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I would be carefull with the weight, as this gun is actually heavy on the front, not the back...
To answer others, I have installed a Beemans Ported Muzzlebreak on mine, and except for improving the viw for the scope, and making the loading process easier (better grip on the barrel), and SIGNIFICANTLY improving the looks of the gun, in the shooting department, it is mostly the same. I would recomend it for the other reasons, though.
As for removing the front sight, according to Winchester, you can walk the front site off the gun with vice grips.
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