Pistol Sight Pusher Tool, Front and Rear Gun Sight Adjustment Removal Tool with Heavy-Duty Construction for Handgun

Pretty decent tool to have when putting new sights on. Was able to adjust front and rear sights on Kimber no problem.

TLDR - this tool is so close to being a top tier smithing tool but they cheaped out on one part and messed it all up. It’s not useless but as it stands, it’s mediocre at best. There are better pushers for the money needed to buy this. Read the entire review before you buy if you wanna know more. It works well enough with all of my compact and full size pistols. If you’re wanting this for anything subcompact, this will most likely not work for you (for example - S&W .380 Bodyguard). I don’t blame the tool for that as it never advertised that it’s good for subcompact slides. That’s just something I know subcompact owners will want to know when they go to find a sight pusher. I’m going to start with the good because there is a good bit of good in this tool and a lot of potential. -The part that pushes the sight is made of decent steel, is super thick and has the ability to push a dovetail red dot adapter into place without cutting into it like some the cheaper sight pushers will. It is anttached to a threaded block with a grade 12.9 fastener (which is pretty good for those who don’t know). That block also has a plate on top bolted in such a way to where it runs down a large groove in the frame which has basically zero chance of popping out of regardless of how much you crank on it. The block assembly runs down a fine threaded shaft with milled grooves on the handle end where a large C-Clip is used to hold it in place and a large giving you decently fine tuning when landing a sight. The base/frame (I’m calling the part of the tool that meets the bench the base and the part on top with the handle and pusher the frame) are extremely stout and I never once felt like the base itself was going to flex when dealing with a stubborn sight. It’s seems to be thick casted aluminum so it should last for a long time as long as you don’t try to put a ratchet on and crank on anything (which would take a lot of modifications but I don’t ever doubt what ridiculous things some people will do when encountering a tight part). The good enough -The vertical adjustment is nice and easy to adjust with good return spring tension so you don’t have trouble fine tuning that last couple centimeters. The knobs are a bit small but not bad. They used decent enough steel for the rods the frame slides on and they are course threaded so you don’t get the fine adjustment like you could get from a fine thread but admittedly, I didn’t have have any trouble with them so I suppose they are good enough for the job. However, I found this tools weakness fast when trying to get it to work on my subcompact stuff. I ended up designing and 3D printing a jig to help hold the slide high enough for the horizontal bars to clamp it in place just to find out that they are too short for that. That was annoying to learn but out of stubborn determination, I designed and 3D printed little slide in place spacers to give the feet the extra length needed to contact the slide. Then that is when I discovered the massive corners cut on this tool, the threaded tubes for each of the horizontal clamps were made on just plastic! Then I realized the vertical front clamp and even the feet on them all were just the same plastic! Even the cheapo, low effort, pot-metal sight pushers use metal with rubber feet for the horizontal adjustment and the vertical front clamp. Now I am an avid user of polymers with my excessive use of 3D printers, but if I wanted a sight pusher with polymer clamps, I would have just made it myself. Now I’m thinking that perhaps they use plastic to prevent dummies from squeezing their slide too tight and cracking it but there are better ways. It’s like someone put a lot of thought into making the ultimate sight pusher but once they were 90% done, some pencil pushing value-engineer came in and said “that’s cute, now make the parts that take a large portion of the forces exerted when the tool is torqued on hard and make them as cheap as possible”. I am even willing to concede a bit to the argument that these design decisions were made to protect the end user from unintended damage but I can think of several ways to make those parts from better materials for cheap while retaining that end user safeguard. I will happily update this review if the manufacturer fixes these massive flaws. There is A LOT of potential for this tool if just a bit more effort when into a few areas.

A must for swapping sights on an Sig …

I would not recommend this. It is cumbersome and the knobs are all in bad placement to reach unless you have hobbit hands. Plastic pieces that hold slides already bent/warped in two places on just my second replacement with it. Slides will rotate no matter how tight you have all positioning plastics. Also pusher itself is incredibly hard to see when dialing in close to slide. I ordered new brass punches it’s so bad and this thing is a new boat anchor.

Said it worked for 1911s in the description but didnt fit great to the sight. Also didnt have enough side to side to fully push out the sight. Had to finish with a hammer :(