Sight Pushing Nirvana, At Last!

[ASH556]

Allow me to eat some crow over my last post. I spent about 15 min trying to bang a rear sight out of a Beretta Brigadier slide today. The little bastard wouldn't budge. I finally relented and hit it with heat and used a MGW sight pusher. Got her out.

I prefer a vise and punch, but will admit the MGW has its uses.

I battled Beretta sights with a punch once. I've also seen slides cracked with sight pushers. Nothing is failsafe.

[seagiant]

Hi,
I will stick my neck out and say the main problem seems to be removing OEM Sights...

From these new Pistols where the Makers are using A Hydraulic Press Set Up, to keep down cost of a hand Sight Install.

Just set it in and hit the button and it will go, but...

Any Sight that was fit correctly, is not really that hard.

Yes, I know from working on rusted stuff all my life, HEAT is the final answer!

[seagiant]

Hi,
Well, my Sight Pro, came in!

Interesting, not as big as I thought it would be but heavy and SOLID, that's for sure.

No Washers for the Post Nuts, but did come with the Springs.

Maybe they figured the washers were not needed or I'm missing something???

Might call MGW and ask the Nice Lady about that.

You can see the deeper cut that it has over the "Range Master" for 1911 type front sights.

Well. I called MGW and they said they changed the design and no washers were needed...

Said, everyone was losing washers so looks like I have the latest Edition!