ARMORERS HANDGUN SIGHT TOOL Reviews & Ratings

I have not had a chance to use this tool as of yet, but it seems to be well made, rugged and should be easy enough to use.

Now I dont give reviews mich but I believe this is a good tool solid and built its the best you can get i think. Can you just use a pinch and hammer yes, but this is nice too. Now the work is all in the prep. Oil the screws and the tool. The sights are built to be alittle positive of tolerance you have to slowly stone/sand (wet sand) the bottom of the sight until it just about goes half way, when sanding or stoning use a circular pattern. I pulled a night fusion installation guide for a glock. The product guide says drift left to right but the install guide i found did it the other way. I drifted from right to left. Im using a brownells g17 slide with no rmr cur and no window. Im using hi viz steel sights. So I put on 1 layers of tape setup the tool to be parallel to the drift head and stoned the sight. Be patient, the sanding and fitting took most my time. The stone wasn't working too fast so I stepped it up to oil and sandpaper. Id use 1000 but all I had was 400 then would finish with a fine stone. Well I had tight and I mean tight, I probably should have stoned alittle more but I went ahead, I put some force on it and the tool did it. When pushing the sight started binding and I would put so much turns on it and it would clunk like it relieved tension. There doesn't appear to be any damage to the sight tool or slide and its tight and right in the middle so I left it. I also placed the sight moved into a soft jaw vice. This is recommended by me, the the amount of force I needed it had to be stable. Read the directions and take your time that is my advice. Also read the wear marks and act appropriately. The only con i have is the price, its a chunk.

Very powerful tool, only limited by your physical strength. Be careful as you can scratch a slide. Be sure to use some shims between the slide and clamps. Business card stock works well.

Did a great job adjusting the rear sight on a G35. The only draw back was they did not supply the allen wrench needed to change the pusher from vertical to angled for Glock sights. Other than that, it is very well built and was offered for a great price.

Those Kimber sights were all from the early 2000's and thoroughly stuck in their dovetails. What made this possible was the stout thickness of the pushing forks. When you have the tension on the wheel at max you can turn the unit on it's side and offer a little help in the form of your largest punch and a light tap with a small hammer to help things "move" the way you need them to. I'm sure this is not recommended by Wheeler but worked effectively to move steel on steel sights without harming them or the jig. Just take your time. These sights would not push in or out without the extra "help". The unit is not an arbor press.

I bought this after CAREFULLY reading the other reviews on here. As soon as it arrived I immediately swapped the sights on an M&P and Sig P229. The first time it took a few minutes to understand the setup, but after that, it's a breeze. No scratches, no dings, changed sights quickly and easily.

Keeping in mind this is a universal tool so you will need to read the instructions and properly setup your slide to adjust or install its sights. If you are bending or breaking front sight posts you do not have the tool setup correctly. Also if you are marring the finish on your gun then you don't have the height adjustment set correctly. Take your time and read the instructions. Most dovetail sights should be hand fitted first prior to installing. They should slide about halfway into the slot before you attempt to use the pusher. If it does not then use a honing stone and rub the bottom of the sight across the stone 4-5 times checking for fitment into the slide. Then use your properly configured sight tool. Tired of seeing folks dig on this tool, it's robust and well made and moves sights like it's working through butter. I had a stubborn front sight post on a Sig P229 and this tool probably adjusted removed the old post and installed new Sig Xray sights without issue. Granted it takes 5-10 minutes to setup your slide properly but then it does exactly as advertised. Also used on extremely stubborn Springfield XD and Glock sights. Works perfectly and with a sale price of 129 plus 10 bucks off and free shipping this is a better value than many cheaply made mid-tier sight pushes. A home run!

Nothing satisfies quite like a quality tool and this is a glowing example. It's well designed and very solid. I was able to easily remove the OEM sights from my H&K P2000SK and install Meprolight night sights (ML-11519). I protected the contact points on the slide with painter's tape and made sure that the pusher block was as low as possible without scraping across the slide for best force application and to minimize unwanted torques. The removal and installation were straightforward and there was zero marring to the slide or sights. Excellent!

Looks good havent used it yet. Plunger staking tool was back ordered, in processing now.

I used this tool today for the first on my Sig Sauer P320 X-Carry. On this gun I had added Sig's Romeo 1 Red Dot so the stock front sight was now too short. I purchased Ameriglo's SG-160-350 Suppressor height front sight so I can be able to Co-Witness if I have a battery failure. Before starting the removal and installation process, I found a couple of YouTube videos on using the Wheeler Sight Tool and I also read the included instructions. I did put a little bit of penetrating oil at the dovetail at the beginning. Being this was the first time ever for me doing a sight removal and install (I consider myself very handy around tools) everything went well! Old sight came off (it was definitely a tight fit) the new one went on a bit easier. No marring to my slide, a good thing! But, I would never attempt this job with a punch and hammer! The only reason I did not give this tool a five star rating was that one of the two large studs (that secure the upper half of the fixture to top of the firearm slide) seemed to have a birr on the threads. I put more oil on the threads than came from the factory and just ran the knob / thumb nut back and forth a few times. Also, the Height Adjustment Stop (the part that contacts the top of the slide) didn't rotate as I thought it should. So, I removed the set screw which has a sharp point on the end opposite of where you would insert an Allen wrench. The point had dug into the unthreaded part of the Height Adjustment Screw. I filed the point so it was more of a flat and didn't tighten the set screw as snugly. Now it rotates more freely. Minor issues!