Posted by John Leslie on February 10, 1999 at 09:19:41:
In Reply to: Can I get a 700BDL without iron sighs? posted by PoH-100 on February 10, 1999 at 09:01:31:
In the last 10 years, I can remember seeing only 1 factory new BDL that didn't have iron sights, a .22-250 that I should have bought. I'm not sure why it didn't have sights. I took the sights off my .17 Remington and plugged the holes with screws, and it doesn't look too bad. But I also remember it wasn't easy to get the front sight off. The front sight blade covers the forward-most mounting screw which is down inside a dovetailed groove, and my gunsmith told me later that there's a special tool just for removing the sight blade from the dovetailed groove. Live and learn.