Is it soldered on? or Press fit?

and how do I take it off?

Thanks

Here you go

http://forums.accuratereloadin...9411043/m/9741076222

No, that won't help; they aren't brazed on or even soldered on; they are very tightly installed and held with a set screw. They are hard to remove.

dpcd is right. Ruger actually imports great big Russian, Bubba girls and Sumo wrestlers that were too heavy and tough to compete on the amateur level to twist them on with their teeth. I have had to resort to cutting the odd one off after I destroyed it with conventional methods. I recently built a device to pull the welded flash hiders off the Norinco M305s and next time I get a Ruger in for sight removal I may build a block that fits the sight that will allow me to pull them that way.

Remember the East German Olympic girls of the 1960s who looked like men? That is because, hormonally, they were. Ruger hires them to seat their front sight bands with 9 pound hammers as they have been banned from Olympic competition..

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Remember the East German Olympic girls of the 1960s who looked like men? That is because, hormonally, they were. Ruger hires them to seat their front sight bands with 9 pound hammers as they have been banned from Olympic competition..

Actually, I think if you check the records dpcd. You will find that Ruger cloned those wimmens, using cross mutated strands of DNA from Chuck Norris and a nasty old bobcat with rabies in a little, dirty, backroom lab as sight installation tools. They later sold them to Germany as part of a cost cutting program after automation and hydraulic presses were installed in the plant !

NO BULLSHIT ! I read it on Facebook.

I read that too and I believe it.

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I read that too and I believe it.

It's a damned good thing that we're here to separate the facts from the bullshit and set the records straight on these matters national importance. We have probably saved the world many times over, or at least kept a sizable chunk of the Eastern Seaboard from snapping off and falling into the ocean !

Yep, a lot of these young guys have been led astray by all the nonsense and bullshit they read on the internet. But we will insure that will never here.

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Yep, a lot of these young guys have been led astray by all the nonsense and bullshit they read on the internet. But we will insure that will never here.

And to start right now. That rumor that we somehow bear any resemblance to Statler and Waldorf off the Muppet Show, is totally FALSE. And, we deny the accusation with the utmost, righteous indignation !

I wasn't sure -- a gorilla on the assembly line or something on the other side of the RED line !

A fellow brought his new Ruger 22 pistol tome and asked if I would check it out as he couldn't take it apart.He said "must be a little trick I haven't found yet"
After multiple hits with a big hammer it came apart. The some file work . I just said "a little tight " Fortunatey he hadn't watched !!

Terry, you could try lightly peening all around the band, that should loosen it.
A non-destructive method for shrunk on bands is to hit it quickly with a hot oxy acet flame to expand the ring but not the barrel and quickly whack it off. Sometimes works depending on how tight it was installed.
Or you can mill/cut it off.
Good luck.

Update; today I removed the front sight band and the sling band from a #1; the front sight came off with 3 medium taps with a light hammer. The sling band took 4 taps.
I was shocked.

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Update; today I removed the front sight band and the sling band from a #1; the front sight came off with 3 medium taps with a light hammer. The sling band took 4 taps.
I was shocked.

Don't buy any lottery tickets. You used up all of your luck for the next 20 years.

I know, and today I also threaded a barrel for a muzzle loader receiver; no mistakes there either. And I got a Ruger 77 tang safety to feed 404 Jefferys; And I roughed out a barrel channel on my mill.
So, my luck can't keep going this good. I better quit for today.

Update/Update. Today I removed sights and bands from two Ruger 45-70 barrels.
Front sight; one medium tap.
Sling band; 3 medium taps
Second front sight; no amount of whacking nor heat would budge it. I had to resort to the peening method, which makes it need re-polishing and refinishing. This is the last resort.
Second sling band; one fairly light tap.
So, you see, they vary from held on only with the set screw, to installed by Igor in the basement with a 3 pound hammer. No offense if your name is Igor.

I have removed a couple of Ruger front sights by taking a piece of .250 thick plate and milling a slot half way across to form a C shaped slot that will slip fit over the barrel below the sight band. Set the assembly up in my hydraulic press, set a piece of scrap brass on the muzzle and pressed it off. One of them must have been installed by Speer Chucker's Russian pro-wrestler girl friend because it made a loud pop when it finally turned loose.

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Next time I get one, I'm going to make a new set of bars for this rig with a cutout for the sight and try that. I'm thinking that it should work just fine. All I meed is a Ruger owner who wants a sight removed and a bit of motivation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LUH0kfXSws

All good advise..cut the barrel behind the sight with a hacksaw then drill it out and get the Russian bitch to swedge it back on...Trust me on this and you will wear diamonds as big as horse turds.