I have a CZ 550 Safari Mag in 416 Rigby that I've lost the front site bead off the front site. Have e-mailed CZ American several times and received no response. I would like to increase the size of the front bead also as my eyes aren't what they use to be and the orginal bead was quite small. Does anyone have suggestions on what to do? I would also like to remove the front sling swivel stud and replace with a barrel band sling attachment. Any help there would be appriciated too.

Call New Enland Custom Guns. They definitely sell front sights. May be able to help with the sling swivel too.

Call instesd emailing to CZ I ordered fiber optic front site insert with no problem. They are $20 each and you can have choice of green or red insert. Insert size is still quite small but much more visible than original bead. As far as fromt sling attachement just remove it and cover it with modified black hole plug insert from Lowes. I think that I used 5/16" size. Just cut neck of that plug with sharp knife and crazy glue it in the place of stud. It looks exactly like ebony plug some custom gun maker will put in for couple hundred bucks. As far as barrel band goes it depends on how brave are you in trying something you did not have done before. I installed barrel bands on 4 of my CZ big bores. Measure your barrel diameter 1.5-2" from forend and order barrel band from Talley Mfg. These are the same people that make great Talley scope ring. I paid $20 for each. Rings are pretty and they coform to slight taper of your barrel if you force them in place. You should apply small amount of red Locktite to lock it in the place. You have to remove front site that is soldered in the place. I heat it up on our kitchen electric range coil set on high. Let it rest on red hot coil and periodically touch it with piece of soldering wire until wire starts melting. That way you make sure original solder have melted and you can knock front site off. I use small lead ingot from wheel weight I use for casting bullets as punch and medium size hammer to make sure I will not marr front site. Let barrel cool off and install barrel band making sure it is rotated the way it should before force it on. Let it sit for couple of hours and resolder fron site back the same way you removed it. I assume that you will remove stock and all internal components of front site as plunger, spring and small roller pin. Degrease whole front site by dipping it in acetone befor starting with whole procedure. Email me if you have any additional questions

Kosinar.

I forgot to mention that I ordered front site insert from NEG for my 416 Rigby couple of years ago and it did not fit. I eventually honed it down to correct size and made it fit but I had to re-blue it before installation. These inserts are very high quality no question about it and made of hardened steel. It was just too much trouble to gently hone it without butchering it. It is posible that current inserts are made to fit since CZ rifles are much more common now.

450 RIGBY
Thank you! Very helpful information.

I've fit a couple of the Recknagel (NECG) front sight beads to CZs and here's what I reccomend.

If you've got a vise, then clamp the bead in the vise (upside down) to expose the bottom of the sight. A good file works well here for quickly removing metal.

Remove a bit and check for fit. repeat, repeat and repeat until you remove enough metal that the sight fits snugly. I've fit mine for a tight fit, which is to say that to get the sight the last 1/8" in, it requires a light tap from a hammer (use a small piece of wood between the hammer and sight to keep from marring the finish).

After I've got the heigth correct and see that the sight fits well, I take the original CZ sight and while holding the old sight and newly fitted sight together (with the bottoms facing each other) I scribe a line to mark the overall length of the original on the newly fitted one.

Cut off the excess (from your mark above) with a dremel tool and clean up the edge with the file.

It will be square on the back-end - instead of contoured for the plunger, but the square end still fits against the plunger and I've had no problems with them moving.

I've also profiled one to fit around the plunger, but it seemed like added work for no apparent benefit.