{"id":3558,"date":"2010-03-30T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2010-03-29T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T03:33:48","slug":"gunshow-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3558","title":{"rendered":"Gunshow wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing I managed to take home from the funshow, the bayonet mount for the Carbine, had to wait until I could pull the front sight, of course. I wasn&#8217;t about to spend a wad of cash on a puller, so I made one<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image3557\" alt=sightpuller.JPG src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sightpuller.JPG\" height=250><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a couple blocks of steel, a cutout the same diameter as the barrel, and a pair of socket screws. Yes, you have to carefully turn one and then the other so it doesn&#8217;t cock, but I didn&#8217;t want to be pressing against the actual barrel, so I figured this was the easiest build <\/p>\n<p>It worked like a charm. I had the old barrel band off and the new one on in a few minutes. Now I just need to buy a bayonet.<\/p>\n<p>Purists, I suppose, may point to the fact that a bayonet on an M1 carbine is like a spinnaker sail on a wombat, but fuck you all, I want a bayonet on an American rifle. <\/p>\n<p>Also, if anyone wants to borrow a cool sight puller I gots one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing I managed to take home from the funshow, the bayonet mount for the Carbine, had to wait until I could pull the front sight, of course. I wasn&#8217;t about to spend a wad of cash on a puller, so I made one It&#8217;s just a couple blocks of steel, a cutout the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}