StarONE Handguns Sight Pusher Tool Fit for Glocks

After reading some of the reviews I was half expecting this to be a fail, but for the price, it was worth taking a look at. All I can say about many of the bad reviews is.... OPERATOR ERROR! I just used it to switch sights on 5 different slides and it works flawlessly with very little effort. It is now much easier to see exactly where some of the bad reviewers were going wrong.In the gallery photo by Pith, the slide isn't secured tightly between the blocks. The slide is also too low and should have been raised so the push arm is making contact with the base of the sight in the dovetail itself, not the top of the sight. That creates a cross lever action that will cause binding rather than applying horizontal push power. Think of a glass. If you apply pressure at the base of the glass right at countertop level it slide across the surface easily. If you only push at the top rim, it's more difficult for the base to overcome the friction and you are just as likely to tip the glass over rather than slide it. Common sense folks!The other issue in that photo.... the pusher is being used backwards. The side of the rear sight in the photo is slanted so the slanted side of the pusher should be used to meet and push evenly across the slant of the sight instead of one sharp point of the pusher only exerting pressure at a single point in a polycarbon (plastic) rear sight. Again, common sense folks!As far as bending the whole frame of the tool... my guess is that the push arm was not aligned to run within the dovetail track, but likely misaligned and pushing into the frame itself. The arm has nowhere to go against solid metal and the light aluminum frame, of course, is going to deform long before you're able to push the pusher arm though a solid metal frame. That's actually a good thing! The tool will fail before you do serious damage to your slide upper. Common sense!Not enough room to get the new sight started in? How about you lightly tap the new sight in part of the way so there IS enough room and do the more difficult and finer pushing with the tool, as intended? If it's much harder than it really should be... you're probably doing it wrong. Take a step back and rethink. Common sense!Pros: The tool works perfectly. The price is incredible. What more can one say? It does exactly what it is supposed to and requires minimal effort without leaving a single mark on the slide or the sight itself.Cons: Biggest... setting the proper alignment can be a little tricky and takes exponentially more time getting it just right than it does to actually push a sight. Clamping the tool in a vise gives you that third hand you wish you had and makes it incredibly easier, but it still takes a bit of finesse and double checks to get it aligned.In practial terms, using it for fine tuning POI on a non adjutable rear sight is going to be tedious. Once the slide is removed to test fire, if more adjustment is needed, the whole finicky alignment process starts all over again. It's not "prohibitively" tedious since you only have to sight in your firearm once, but it's not much fun, either.The nutshell: It's definately not a commercial grade tool. For the home amateur gunsmith that needs to push a sight every once in a great while and you're okay with having to take a few more mintues getting the alignment set... and the $ savings is key... it is more than capable of getting the job done. Not as easily or as quickly, but $20 vs $100+ to do the same thing? It's your call!

This unit was garbage. Not sure if it was previously used and returned, but it arrived DOA.The main sight mover part would drag on the top frame. The threads on the main bolt were cross-threaded and the sight pusher was stuck to it. I added a bunch of WD40 to work it loose. The other end of the main bolt had a lock nut on it, but turning the handle end of the bolt to move the sight pusher tightened the lock nut in the process after a few turns, thus preventing the sight pusher from moving further. Ended up taking off the lock nut and washer, and guiding the sight pusher by hand, while turning the handle end.The adjustment piece to raise/lower the gun slide up to the sight pusher was stuck - could not loosen or tighten it so it was not stable.The 3rd adjustment piece for side-to-side movement did not attach to its adjustment bolt - the bolt just sits in a hole in the side, thus making it very unstable.Pretty much need 3 hands to hold all of the parts in the correct place, then a 4th to twist the knob to move the sight pusher.The side slide-clamps are all just metal - no foam, rubber, or plastic so it scratched the finish off my slide when trying initially to get it in position. Ended up using a piece of cardboard moving forward to try again. Ended up returning this unit after 90 minutes of messing with it. This was on sale for $20 for Black Friday. I guess "you get what you pay for" on these types of items.

This pusher was successful in removing the stock sights from my M&P Shield, and installing new sights on it. Before I bought this pusher, I had tried the hammer and punch method, which worked in removing the rear sight. But the front sight was very stubborn, as if it was welded on. The punch couldn't budge it. So I ordered this pusher, and it did the trick. It was a little tricky getting the slide aligned just right so the pusher would engage the sight at the right point, but not too bad. I secured the pusher in a bench. After soaking the sight in solvent, and cranking on the pusher's bolt/worm screw until I thought something was gonna break, the sight suddenly broke free and came out easily after that. Installing the new sights was easy. The pusher did a good job for such a low-priced tool. I recommend it if you can't afford the high-end pushers, or if you're not a gunsmith and you're only gonna need to do a few sight replacement jobs.