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Hi all,

Is removing the flash hider on a No.5 carbine an easy task?

I've just realised I've not taken mine off in all the time I've owned the rifle as I don't know how to

...and you NEED to remove it, because?

saddler wrote:...and you NEED to remove it, because?

Thats what I was thinking.........aren't they sweated on anyway?.I've never had the flash hider off my Dragunov and have no intentions to.

saddler wrote:...and you NEED to remove it, because?

I didn't say I NEEDED to remove it at all fella.

It would be easier to clean inside the cone it I COULD remove it but I suspect you have to knock out two pins, if this is the case I shan't bother.

sign92

Stuck wrote:

saddler wrote:...and you NEED to remove it, because?

I didn't say I NEEDED to remove it at all fella.

It would be easier to clean inside the cone it I COULD remove it but I suspect you have to knock out two pins, if this is the case I shan't bother.

sign92

CLEAN it?
It's designed to get dirty/rusty in them there jungles...makes the bullet holes it produces that much more interesting!

Easy enough to remove.

Drift out the front-sight blade.
Peek in a down-ward direction in the now empty sight dovetail - I spy a screw.
Unscrew the screw....job done.

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Cheers Saddler.

The originals are hot-pressed and pinned on by the two left-to-right pins. Very rarely one of them comes off easily - mostly they have to be heated and/or bashed and/or cut off...

If there is anything like a keeper screw, then its an aftermarket repro thats been fitted.

In military service, replacement barrels came with the flash-hider prefitted. It wasn't a normal armoury job to try and shift them.