Remington 870 Tritium Rifle Sight Installation

September 22, 2012 Bill Marr Accessories, Gunsmithing, Shotguns, Tutorial 0

Tritium sights are an easy upgrade for shotgun users.  Here we install a set of Kimber tritium sights on a 18″ Remington 870 rifle sighted barrel.

For this installation we used the following supplies:

We begin by verifying the shotgun is safe and empty and then remove the barrel.

This is a quick and simple project, we grab a screw driver, sight pusher, night sights and the barrel.
While you can drift the old front sight out with a brass or nylon drift, we have found using a sight pusher provides the best results.  If you plan on changing ramped front sights on a few firearms, its definitely worth the investment.  Notice the two jaws that grab the sides of the base while the threaded pusher rod drives the dovetailed front sight in or out of the dovetail.

 

The Williams sight pusher mounted in place.  Turn the handle clockwise, the front sight slides out of the dovetail.
The replacement tritium front sight is then driven in from the other side with the sight pusher.
Swapping out the rear tritium sight is simple.  Using our Magna-Tip driver and a small slotted bit, we simply loosen the screw on the rear sight.
The new tritium rear sight is secured into place with the same screw that held the original rear sight.  We will apply a small drop of blue thread lock to ours once we get to the range and zero. If you do this make sure you use the proper size driver.

 

 

Related Articles

New

Installing an External Bolt Stop/Release on a Remington 700

July 15, 2013 Bill Marr 0

Installing an External Bolt Stop/Release on a Remington 700 The factory bolt stop/release mechanism on Remington 700 rifles is sometimes considered a weak point in the design. If the stop mechanism binds in the narrow […]

Accessories

EOTech Integrated Fore-End Light (IFL) Review

January 20, 2013 Bill Marr 0

  EOTech has entered the shotgun forearm light market with its Integrated Fore-End Light (IFL).  Powered by a single  CR123 battery, the IFL provides 120-lumens of light for a 90-minute run time from an LED […]

Gunsmithing

Special Purpose Rifle (SPR) Upper Receiver Build

August 22, 2012 Bill Marr 0

  We decided to take a crack at building a .223/5.56MM Special Purpose Rifle style upper receiver for an AR15.  We wanted to end up with an accurate rifle, low recoil impulse that is extremely shooter friendly. […]