The math to move a front sight is the same as a rear. Sight radius divided by distance to the target in inches equals 1" in correction.
I made a fixture that allows me to move the front sight in increments of as little as .0025" to get your windage dead on. It was easier and cheaper than buying an expensive leaf sight drilling fixture. I've used it on 3 or 4 muskets and it works great.
Even the flats milled on a musket to mount a front sight may have a very shallow angle dovetail, and then are very often soldered in place. (I forget the exact degrees the dovetail is made with, but I have a cutter that works.)
Bob Anderson
Ordnance Sergeant
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
- John Wayne in "The Shootist", 1976
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