Night sights : suggestions/help/opinions

**danhr** · March 16th, 2018, 01:06 PM

I just use a plastic drift punch and a hammer

**Corey G** · March 17th, 2018, 07:41 PM

I have been fine with cleaning the groves, and making sure the sight bases where flat-paper sand a bit, and a brass punch, but I picked up a NcStar VTUPRS dirt cheap They are still on $40 and figured I would give it a try its actually worked well on a most but not all things I used it on. Its worked really well as just a range drift rig if I do sights for someone. Remember sights are not suppose to be very hard to push in if it comes to a stop there is usually a reason for it.

**TooBigToFit** · March 17th, 2018, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by Knightshift

Thanks for the replies. Just ordered a pusher from Washington Gun Works that lots of people liked so we'll see. Had a bad experience with a brass punch vs Shield a while ago. Rear sight tapped out just fine but the tritium rear sight went half way in then mushroomed to a stop! Tapped it back out but totally deformed. Stock sight went back in with no problem so I know it was not my fault. May just put in the front tritium on the Shield. Anybody just use a front night sight. I can see the sence in that.

Dovetails will usually have a taper to them, so make sure you're putting it in the right way. Generally, take them out left to right, put them in right to left (oriented as looking down the sights, so basically, remove in the same direction as cartridge case ejection). It may differ for some guns though, so double check with the power of Google.