Ok Forgive me on asking this question. I am totally new to pellet guns. I just bought a 2240 Xl and I bought the rear sight for it. Just received it today. What good is the rear sight without a front sight. Am I being forced to buy a scope or red dot. I paid $ 60.00 for the rear sight and its useless. .Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Thanks Steve
2240 Xl Front sights
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Sights are just not that difficult.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2240+front+sights&t=ffab&atb=v180-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
An Allen screw or some kind of screw filed or shaped werqs just fine for a front sight. Or you can Dremel and file one of the Crosman stock front plastic sights and epoxy it on. Get creative instead of upset. It's easier on the nerves. ;^)
Rear sight is off of a Gamo rifle cut to fit and screwed onto the DAQ breech. The trick was getting the same screw to hold the breech on the gun. I had o get creative so the screw has a different set of threads on each side and a slot on top. Front is just the very top off of a Crosman Fiber Optic sight glued on the carbon fiber.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2240+front+sights&t=ffab&atb=v180-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
An Allen screw or some kind of screw filed or shaped werqs just fine for a front sight. Or you can Dremel and file one of the Crosman stock front plastic sights and epoxy it on. Get creative instead of upset. It's easier on the nerves. ;^)
Rear sight is off of a Gamo rifle cut to fit and screwed onto the DAQ breech. The trick was getting the same screw to hold the breech on the gun. I had o get creative so the screw has a different set of threads on each side and a slot on top. Front is just the very top off of a Crosman Fiber Optic sight glued on the carbon fiber.
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Thank you both for the above suggestions. You're right instead of getting upset I need to be more creative. Thank you both for your suggestions. Steve
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Airguns being such excellent mechanical platforms for customizing, none more-so than Crosman 2240s, once you overcome initial "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" hesitancy, it's easy to become intoxicated on overdoses of creative juices... to the point of hopeless addiction! Not to encourage or enable such benignly decadent behavior (I lie), but it's much easier to monkey around with a sub-$100 piece with excellent availability of cheap parts and components than it is a multi-thousand dollar gun built in Bumfuct, Egypt that you might be lucky to find any part for, at any price.
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