There are differences in front sights. I'm posting this so maybe someone won't make the mistake that I did. I needed to push the front sight as it was shooting left.

Bought a sight pusher online billed as the tool for M44 1945 on. My rifle is stamped 1945. Good to go. Nope. Mine is an early 1945, built with an M38 barrel and sight. Maker sent me the instructions included in the ad that should have guided me to the correct tool when I told them more info is needed in his ad.

The info is there. It just didn't mean a lot to me, because I wasn't familiar with the differences in the manufacturing of M44s. Now I get it. The lesson learned was worth the reasonable price of the tool, plus I am able to make it work with some modification.

The early 1945 M44s have a narrower width sight and base, same as an M38. Mine is .446". The wider one is, well, wider.