I am new to the world of Garands!! Just got mine yesterday! YEA!!!! Well I have been doing a lot of reading on the function and mechanics of the rifle but cant find a lot on the rear sight. On mine the elevation and windage nob are wacky. I can adjust for elevation fine but when I turn the windage it wont move and will start to make it move for elevation. I am not sure I am explaining it right. Anyway I bought it from The Gurand Guy so if its just broken I can bring it in and he will fix it for me. I just want to make sure I cant just do something on my own to trouble shoot first.

It's not broken it is just adjusted incorrectly The windage and elevation screws have counter opposing threads and a camming actions that forces the windage to move left or right If you go to the CMP website it will show you how to break it down and reassemble it correctly it is not broken

 

Either I am compleatly incompatent! (stranger things have been true lol) Or something is not right with the sight! I followed then CMP instructions and still no good! I will go see the Garand guy today and see what he can do.

turn the little slotted screw on the windage side of the sight with a screwdriver counter clockwise one click. that is a spring loaded screw which keeps pressure on the windage adjustment. If it was turned one click too tight the windage doesn't want to adjust. To do a check for accuracy adjust elevation for the rear sight fairly high and try to wiggle the aperature. If it wiggles either the rear sight spring is worn or the aperature is worn. Both are fairly common issues and easy fix.

Usnmars is correct. Saw a similar issue on the CMP forum and that solution fixed the problem. The best place for garand info truly is the CMP forum. Check it out. Lots of guys with lots of knowledge.

 

http://forums.thecmp.org/

Thanks for the help guys.. I ended up after driving myself crazy for a few hours i gave up. I took it to Tony the garand guy and he magically in 2 minutes had me rocking. I was Luckey enough to get a few lessons form the man himself on sights and the trigger group. A perfect case for a new garand owner to go with one of his rebuilds.

Usnmars is correct. Saw a similar issue on the CMP forum and that solution fixed the problem. The best place for garand info truly is the CMP forum. Check it out. Lots of guys with lots of knowledge.

 

http://forums.thecmp.org/

thanks i am going to join up tonight when i get home.