Sight pusher for PM9

[par3]

I'm new to PM9 and want to change out the front sight for a night sight (mepro).

Everything I read says the PM9 front sight is TIGHT and a good pusher is needed if you don't want to send the slide back to Kahr.

Everything I seem to read is several years old at the latest!

Anybody with recent experiences with a sight pusher and can recommend a candidate and/or give advice?

[Alfonse]

http://www.harborfreight.com/12-ton-shop-press-33497.html#.UypWEKhdUlo

[Alfonse]

Just funnin ya! A sight pusher, like the midway one, is a good idea.

[CJB]

Hey I've got that press!

And FWIW, I used a steel rod and that press to remove a string of pellets from my boss's pellet pistol. He had maybe.. oh... twelve or fifteen strung in a row.... in the barrel. They came out like a string of silver dog poo.

I just use a big vice (8", heavy, also HF) and a brass punch, and "Mr. Hammer" to get sights out. The key is holding that slide solid as Gibralter. Kahr sights are noted for being tough hombres to move. I dunno if a mere pusher would break 'em loose sometimes.

[340pd]

Unless you plan on moving a lot of sights, send the slide to someone to have it done. Hammers and punches slip, vises bend stuff, and not all sight pushers will move all manufacturers sights.
my 2¢

[muggsy]

Unless you plan on moving a lot of sights, send the slide to someone to have it done. Hammers and punches slip, vises bend stuff, and not all sight pushers will move all manufacturers sights.
my 2¢

Ding, ding, ding, ding! We have a winner. Best answer yet. Why pay more than the cost of the sight for a pusher unless you're going into the sight pushing business. Great post, 340pd.

[par3]

Ding, ding, ding, ding! We have a winner. Best answer yet. Why pay more than the cost of the sight for a pusher unless you're going into the sight pushing business. Great post, 340pd.

Kahr wants $40 + $25 shipping + $5 to send it in + God knows how much down time.

Seems that $70 is more than 1/2 way to a good pusher. If you do sights twice, then its paid for and also nice tool to have.

[jocko]

OK: Nimrods, here is the best pusher money can buy and it will work on kahrs, glocks and the little 380 kahr evn.

Called the Universal Site Tool P500 #694-000-001 brownells part #. I tink a tad over a $100. a good investment if ur gonna push. I have had one for 5 years and I don't use it hardly anymore but at first I thiough I had to move my sites on my PMJ9 to ge the accuracy that I needed, as my shooting skills suckeslike a Hoover or a Monica. I moved my site son my PMJ9 so uch that it go to be funny that every time I would pull that P500 out of the shooters bag, my sites on my PMJ9 would just move automatically, so I have o real need for iut anymore. Funny dan thing though I bet I moved those sites left and right and then back left and thenb back right until I finallygot the gun shooting pretty good and I noticed tha tthe sites were exactly in the middle where I originally started with.DA!! Just sayin

But this is a good tool won't mar jack sh!t either. ol jocko recommends it.

[FLBri]

Here is all you need.
Ive pulled, changed, and adjusted sights with one of these ... even installed a LaserLyte sight on aT9 with one. Use a socket set to "push" the blade and it's safe, non marring, and effective. If you don't need the many different blade patterns of this one, the same guy sells a single bladed version for about $45.

No smith is going to charge you less than that ... and you still own the tool for the next gun you want to change.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Handgun-Sight-Pusher-Tool-Universal-for-front-or-rear-1911-Glock-Sig-and-Others-/161096823767?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25821e73d7

[100percent]

Glad mine came with the night sights. Good luck.

[340pd]

Lowest cost solution appears to be..... Sending your slide to Jocko.

Next alternative is bring it in to a local gunsmith. The last set of Truglo's I had installed on my XDm ran me $10 and I tipped him $10 more. Took less than ten minutes if you catch him in a good mood.

[muggsy]

Kahr wants $40 + $25 shipping + $5 to send it in + God knows how much down time.

Seems that $70 is more than 1/2 way to a good pusher. If you do sights twice, then its paid for and also nice tool to have.

You LGS will probably install the new sights for about $35-$40. No shipping required.

[ScottieG59]

I use special tools for my Glocks, but I would send or take my Kahrs to a pro.