Model 141 Front Sight Ramp/Base

[nambujim]

A month or so back there was a discussion about whether or not the ramp/base for the front sight was actually milled into the barrel. At the time I provided a photograph of a barrel stub
that I had put a torch to for 3-4 minutes and then cut it through the dovetail with a hack saw, the back portion of the ramp simply fell off the barrel. While I knew that these sights were a separate piece, the method for attaching them remained a "bit" of a mystery. Before the severe application of heat to the ramp I had beat the dickens out of the bloody thing in an effort to remove it, it stuck to the barrel like Gibralter.

A "gunwriter" friend said that he had been to Remington some years back and watched them
attach vent ribs to shotguns and he asked about the procedure. He was told that it went back many years but has been improved/perfected since the installation of ramps on the 141.

Sounds easy/reasonable............the barrel was put in "jig", fluxed, silver solder applied, and
then "induction heated". The latter is a process where the barrel/ramp within a few seconds are so hot that they glow. The result of the process is obvious, the two pieces are made almost one. For info, some of my more knowledgeable collector friends were even unsure of the process. While I might not have "the process" perfectly described, we all get the picture.

[Rickster]

That's good info. Thanks Jim.