June 15, 2021/Riley Draper Table of Contents
If you have a handgun you’re going to want to get to know it inside and out. You don’t have to become a professional gunsmith in order to customize some of the parts you use the most. Your sights, for example, can slide right off with the right tools. If you love your gun, but you wish it had some night sights, or something a little flashier, you don’t need to take it in to get that job done. Maybe your Glock sight just isn’t cutting it at the range,
Customization is one of the most exciting parts of owning a gun. From adding a suppressor to sliding on s set of tritium night sights, making your gun your own is incredibly satisfying!
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This one is for the guys that want to get serious about their gunsmithing. It’s an amazing little piece of machinery for the price, and the quality of life improvements they managed to pack into this sight pusher put it head and shoulders above its competitors. It’s durable, it’s practical, and it’s beautiful. This is a new iteration of W Wiregear’s previous sight pusher, and every single tweak they made makes for a wonderful brick of practicality and precision.
It’s easy to use, any slide will fit into this sight pusher, and the four knobs along the bottom half will allow you to ensure a tight straight fit all the way down the piece. The plastic pushing the sight off of your slide is incredibly durable without being so rigid you run the risk of damaging your parts. The screws here have also been re-engineered. You’re not going to end up with a glorified paperweight after a handful of customizations. It’s versatile. This sight pusher is made with the breadth of gun models out there.
The crank is easy to use. The long handles give you a great deal of leverage, so you’re not going to have to hit the gym before you can push your old sight off of your gun. The easy-to-follow instructions are great for beginners and experts looking for a refresher.
There are incredibly detailed markings along the sight prong that allow for extremely precise placements of your sights, which you’re going to need, of course. Guesswork is unacceptable if you’re going through the effort of customizing your sights. If you want to get the job done right the first time and every single time you bust out the sight pusher, then you’re going to want to check out the W Wiregear sight pusher.
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When trying to change or adjust a sight on a Glock, you need a durable tool to get the job done. After all, guns on their own are heavy-duty, so you’re going to need a tool that shares some of those qualities when making adjustments or customizations. This NcSTAR universal sight pusher is tough, easy to use, and can be used on a wide variety of sights.
To make sight adjustments with this tool, all you need to do is lube it up, set up the pusher, and get to work. It will easily and conveniently push your sight for you, whether you’re doing this to make adjustments, or if you’re doing it to customize your gun.
While it can work on both rear and front sights, using this tool for front sights is pretty tricky, so expect to put in a little more effort for the front sights. Its dimensions are 4.7” x 7” x 2”, which is fairly compact, but large enough to be able to handle hard-to-move sights. On top of that, it weighs around 3.5 lbs, so it isn’t too heavy, but won’t be too light either.
If you’ve been on the hunt for a simple and easy-to-use sight pusher that comes in a unique blue color, this could be just the right pick for you.
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The Fisher Solutions sight pusher tool proves that simple is best. This sight pusher doesn’t really seem like something to write home about. In fact, if you have no idea what a sight pusher is, you might be looking at this thing and wonder if it even has a function at all. It’s basically just a frame with some holes drilled in the side and a bunch of cubes. That simplicity, however, is its greatest strength. You’re not going to be twisting a dozen knobs to find the exact position for your sights down to the millimeter or fiddling with settings and twiddling your thumbs for an hour before getting to work.
This pusher is about knowing your slides, slotting in the shims you need, and getting to work. This sight pusher is their XL variant, so big or small, your slides will fit right in, no sweat. It’s sturdy and there are no frills. You don’t have any extra doodads tacked on for you to ignore or break on accident. The fanciest thing about this sight pusher are the side windows drilled into the frame so you can keep an eye on things.
The simplicity of this thing also means it’s great for front sights as well. Some sight pushers out there spend so many of their resources on helping you get the rear sights off that they forget that sights need to come off on the front as well. The compact shape and straightforward design make it simple to pop off any sight on any side for any slide.
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This dovetail rear sight pusher is the whole package. It’s designed to fit on any surface you could think to do your gunsmithing on. The bottom of the frame can be drilled onto a table or against a wall, whatever you’d like to attach it to in order to keep your hands open for alignment and cranking the pusher. Maybe you’d prefer to attach it to a clamp or vise instead. This heavy-duty anodized aluminum frame can withstand a great deal of pressure, so clamp away.
It comes with dovetailed slide clamps, but you can slot in a pair of the many aluminum blocks ATG sends along with this sight pusher to create flat clamps, adding to the universality and versatility. The pusher handle is removable if you’re having trouble or you just don’t like it, you can slot in a 15mm wrench or socket tool.
The base of the sight pusher tool is adjustable to accommodate slides of basically any make or model, tall or short, you’ll find that clamping your slides into this pusher will be a breeze. Side windows built into the tool just above the clamps will grant you a view of all of the action. Take your time and take advantage of these windows and you’ll be sliding off even the toughest smallest, most stubborn rear sights on the market.
The brass bushings on the steel screw of the sight pusher are excellent additions to the build quality of this pusher tool. The friction it provides for the surface of the bearings makes use a sturdy yet smooth breeze. The bag they provide is simple and sleek if you’re the meticulous type that needs a home for all of your tools.
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The Sylvan Univeral sight pusher kit doesn’t believe that one size fits all, and for that, we’re thankful. One of the pitfalls some universal sight pushers run into is trying too hard to please every single gun with just one set of tools. Sometimes the best solution is the most obvious. If you want your pusher to fit every gun out there on the market, then make it fit every gun on the market.
This sight pusher comes with a decent handful of different jigs for you to slot into the pusher so you can go into any customization job confident you’ll come out the other side feeling successful. If you’re worried about notched inserts or slides you’ll find on berettas with decocking or slide-mounted safeties, there’s a piece for that.
If you want to accommodate for the angled slides you’ll find on Springfields or the M&P shield there are blocks you can slip in. What if you just purchased a dead eye sight and you need an offset pusher? Don’t worry about hitting up amazon again to find that one little piece, this sight pusher has it.
From block padding to avoid scratching the sides of the slides to disassembly tools for the Glock, this universal sight pusher truly epitomizes the spirit of the word. It comes with a convenient soft body case for carrying all of these treasures, and it’s light enough to fit comfortably in your life, be it in the shop or on the road. This fourth generation of the Sylvan sight pusher bears on its sleeve all of the hard work and dedication they’ve put into perfecting the art of universal gunsmithy tools.
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This is a close one. Competition here is stiff, but we’re going to have to crown the Wiregear sight pusher as the king of this round. The durability combined with flexibility in the right places alone is enough to put it in first place. Sights want to sit firmly on the slide, and you definitely don’t want your slide jostling around after a day out at the range. That, however, means that sights aren’t always the easiest thing in the world to remove from your gun.
You want a sturdy piece of equipment that will allow you to put some real force on things to get the process moving along. At the same time, the Wiregear sight pusher isn’t going to leave you with a scratched up slide, because that power is coupled with gentle clamps designed to keep your slides in place without applying coarse edges to your precious parts.
This model has been revisited by their designers several times. They’ve compared the Wiregear sight pusher to others on the market and patched up common points of failure. The screws holding everything together as well as the screws responsible for moving the pusher along your slide are thick and durable. You’re not going to be wearing down any threads or snapping them in half.
The handle is also unique enough to put this sight pusher ahead of its peers. This large easy to use crank is going to transfer most of your rotational energy into horizontal energy without requiring too much grip or awkward angling with your hands. You’re not going to find yourself wishing you could tag in a massive socket wrench. The markings they’ve added to the pusher are precise enough to allow for easy sight installation and calibration of your front and rear sights for an accurate shot when it matters.
Front adding a red dot sight on the front of your gun to adding high-quality rear sights, this handgun sight tool, and its heavy-duty construction and handle it all.
Guns are the kind of tool you never feel satisfied owning just one of. Over time you’ll start learning about new pistols or your old pistol may start showing you its less flattering side after your thousandth shot. Whatever the reason, when you start leaning further into the vast realm of gun ownership, you’ll find yourself picking at narrow niche aspects of your gun and wishing you could improve them. Grabbing a sight pusher is the most cost-effective way to do this.
At first, it can be intimidating to pull your slide off and jam it into an aluminum block, but after your first attempt, you’ll see that it’s as simple as changing a light blub. You’ll just need to be willing to put some elbow grease on it.
Using your sight pusher really isn’t that hard. Most of them come with a manual, and if you’re good at following directions and patient enough to line things up right, then more often than not, your slides will come right off. Then you work in reverse to get the new sight on your pistol. All it really takes is finding the pusher that’s right for you.
When it arrives just, arrange your blocks or platform to the right height, this is probably the hardest part of getting your sight pusher going. After that, it’s just a matter of selecting the right pusher. By this point, you should know your gun well enough to understand the shape of your sights and the position they occupy on the slide, so figuring out which pusher you need is as easy as matching shapes or brand names.
Once you’ve starting sliding things off of your gun, it’s hard to stop. The allure is intoxicating. You’re going to want to start changing slides for your friends and family, maybe even you’ll feel like starting your own business, Who knows?
Bonus tip: Intimidated by using a sight pusher for the first time? Check out this handy video that clears up any apprehension you might have.
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Riley Draper is a writer and entrepreneur from Chattanooga, Tennessee. As a world traveler, he has been to more than fifty countries and hiked some of the most elusive trails in the world. He is the co-founder of WeCounsel Solutions and has published work in both national and global outlets, including the Times Free Press, Patch, and Healthcare Global. When he’s not writing, he’s probably on a hiking trip or climbing in the mountains.
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