Quote Originally Posted by candleman View Post
Yes I was there [not at Rivington on the day in question you weren't] and had a lot of experience shooting the 604.
You're telling me a fault with the rear site which is easily repairable is reason not to buy the 6004.
Meanwhile the OP points out a far more significant design flaw in the 604 which you choose to ignore.
Unbelievable.
I hear these stupid old is better than new cases all the time related to all sorts of things and most of it comes from ill informed forum sages who set themselves up as experts but in fact haven't a clue what they're talking about.
I'm sorry I touched a nerve; the fault with the 6004 was a steel 3mm screw badly aligned into a soft alloy block. It stripped the thread in the alloy and was totally u/s.

As a skilled engineer - toolroom fitter and production machinery maintenance technician as well as an ill informed forum sage I can usually recognise a design fault.

You can wind your neck in now; I don't argue with idiots as they tend to bring you down to their level and beat you with many years of acquired experience.