Glock Sight Install / San Diego

[RenegadeDefense.com]

Are any special tools required to install the rear sight? Is it best to let a Glock armorer install?

If so, I am in the North County area - any recommendations?

Thanks

[glock_this]

I have pulled off sights on +8-10 pistols. The Glock was the easist - S&W the hardest - I finally just invested in a sight puller off ebay years back. An armorer or smith will charge 30-50$ so I paid for it on my first use in money saved.

All in all removing is generally the easier part, pushing them back on can be brutal & time consuming to setup & go slow.

[Trenchfoot]

I've never done my own. It's cheap enough to take them to either Glockstore on Murphy Canyon Rd, or Parallax Tactical on Miramar Rd.

[JWHuey]

DAS in Solana Beach has installed all the night sights on my Glocks.

[mievil]

Glockstore did 2 sight sets for me for free. And I didn't even buy the sights from them. Win.

[Lead Waster]

I was at a GSSF match, chatting to the armorer. I asked him "how hard is it to change the sights on a Glock?" He said, let me show you. He took my friend's G27, unscrewed the front with the glock took (it's a nut driver), screwed in a new one. Then took a plastic hammer, knocked off the rear sight, put a new rear sight in the slot and knocked it into place with the hammer. 30 seconds. It was more-or-less centered, but it was installed. He didn't even use a vice.

Best part of it was my buddy got a free replacement of his plastic Glock sights for a set of metal Glock sights.

I replaced my sights with Warren Tactical sights. Rear sight, I used a wood working vise to hold my slide and I used a dowel and hammer to knock out and replace the rear sight. Dave Dawson has a short video on how to do it. I bought a glock sight tool from Amazon, basically a nut driver for $10 for the front sight.

[jeffafa]

Glockstore did 2 sight sets for me for free. And I didn't even buy the sights from them. Win.

+1 for Glockstore. The guys working at the store are great.

[clayton]

do you still have to site the pistol in ?

[glock_this]

do you still have to site the pistol in ?

What I normally do is make several pencil lines - stands out on metal of gun, easy to remove when done - of the exact placement of the old sites on the frame and then when I push the new sites in ether line it up with those (if base of site is same dimensions) or center it within those. Works like a charm.

Most, but not all of course like some 1911's, pistol sights don't have windage and elevation screws - they are fixed - so there is only so much sighting in you can do. The key is to just get them centered up.

[ijustdontknow]

+1 for Glockstore. The guys working at the store are great.

+2, of course I work about a mile away from it so it's an easy drop by. They have done 2 sets of sights and a trigger for me.