A few friends have bought used Glocks (1st, 2nd and 3rd Gen) from Department Trade-ins.

Replace the springs and a good deep clean are all I can recommend.

Recoil Spring Assembly, Firing pin spring, Firing pin safety spring, Magazine springs.

Total cost for all of this should be around $50 or so, depending on how many mag springs.

Use to hate glocks. Went through the traditional dilemma's and denials most do; grip angle sucks, feels like a brick, trigger like a staple gun, slide finish to slick, etc.... I seemed to be one of the few that liked the finger grooves though.

But then I started shooting the piss out of it (instead of just fingerbanging it). Now I have several. 9mm, 10mm, 45 and 40s&w. Actually I just put a KKM 40 conversion barrel in my g20.

I like them now and they get as much range time as the Sigs

It's been 25 years now and I still haven't purchased a Glock. My latest purchase was a used Tangfoglio TZ75/88 and the trigger in single action is very good. Still puzzling about how to put an adjustable trigger stop on it because the distance between release and reset is actually quite short.

Tomorrow is another day

Finally found a G17L gen 5 in stock.

Picked it up yesterday and my buddy got a new G20 while we were there. They had a nice Trump model too,

When this thread first posted over 15 years ago I'd owned .40 caliber Glocks for nearly 10 years. Prior to that I was a die hard Sig guy, would never own "plastic" guns.

Two years to the day after this thread first posted I started selling off my .40 caliber Glocks for 9mm Glocks. nagging pain in my right elbow during the preceding year, precipitated this. No regrets.

Two years ago I decided that Shadow Systems guns were the "Gen6" upgrade. After shooting an MR920, (their version of the Glock 19). I was bitten by the bug, in the same way when around '98 I shot my buddy's Glock 23. Now I shoot Shadow Systems exclusively. So I did buy a Glock, and have been on the operating system for the last 25 years.

Anybody in Northern Illinois have access to a Glock rear sight tool, and know how to use it?

I got a G19 Gen 5 a couple months ago, bought night sights for it, and hired a local gunsmith to install them. He can't get the rear sight centered.

I'm near DeKalb, if anybody can meet up with me after I've had a chance to get back to the range.

When you say “he can’t get the sight centered” do you mean he cannot push the sight all the way or that he just isn’t going to sight it in for you.

If it’s the former he likely needs to file some material off the new sight. If the latter most ranges I’ve been to have a sight pusher and will let you use it if you need to fine tune something, so that might be worth asking.

Take care, shoot safe.
Chris

You're right, I should have been more specific.

When he installed them, the rear sight was a bit too far to the left, when he tried to correct, it ended up too far to the right. He said that's the best he could do. I think he's just a bit off-center himself. He doesn't have a range on premises.

I don't think my local range has a sight pusher, but I'll ask, if I can get them to answer the phone. They're only open Saturday and Sunday from noon to about 4pm, I'll try tomorrow.

Thanks for the idea, cslinger. I know Glock Store sells a sight tool, but I think it's about $65 and I'll only use it once.

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:
He said that's the best he could do.

That's a bizarre thing for a gunsmith to say. It's a Glock - it doesn't get much easier to get a rear sight perfectly centered. You can check it with dial calipers and any decent sight pusher should be able to get it dead-nuts centered. Is he using a friggin' hammer and eyeballing it?

He was recommended by the FFL I bought the pistol from, and I had been in his shop a couple times 20 or more years ago. The place is now a mess, and I suspect he's suffering deterioration as well, but thought he could at least put sights on a Glock. As you say, it doesn't get much easier.

I was wrong to trust him, but he's the only gunsmith I know of anywhere near here. Now, I'm stuck trying to clean up after him.

You mention dial calipers and any decent sight pusher. I don't have either, but suspect all I need to do is get the rear sight centered.

I just checked Midway USA, and they have a dial caliper on sale for $25, but sight pushers start at $100, a bit much for a one-time-use.

Send me an email and I will let you borrow a sight pusher.


Chris

Wow! Thank you very much!

I'll e-mail you, but please hold off until I get a chance to check with the local range, and maybe see how far off my sights are now. My feeling is that they are pretty far off, but I'd want to make sure before putting you to the trouble.

And thank you, Para, for this place!

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:
I'll e-mail you, but please hold off until I get a chance to check with the local range, and maybe see how far off my sights are now. My feeling is that they are pretty far off, but I'd want to make sure before putting you to the trouble.

If it even looks like the rear is off, it's off. The last set I did was my G45 and it's a few thousandths off, but I would dare anyone to look at it and tell me that with just the naked eye. It hasn't been enough that I can notice with my abilities at the ranges I shoot at, but if it were much more, I suspect it would be. If your rear sight looks off, then it's off by a fair bit. Even if you don't have the dial caliper, if you have a reasonably good Mk1 Eyeball, you can get it about as perfect as it needs to be with a sight pusher.

I strongly suspect your gunsmith tried drifting it in there with a punch and a hammer and gave up chasing it back and forth. Just pure cheap and lazy on his part, I would almost guarantee it.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

If it even looks like the rear is off, it's off...

It does look like it's off. When he first installed the sights (Ameriglo, BTW, decent quality), it shot about 4-5 inches left of center at 50 feet, now the sight looks even further off, but to the right. I didn't get to watch him do the adjustment, but your theory that he used a punch and hammer makes sense, so I'm going to see if our local range has a sight tool as cslinger suggested. In the meantime, I'll check Youtube for videos on this so I can adjust it myself.

Dang that really sucks, it is not hard at all to install combat sights with even a mediocre sight pusher. How anyone can consider themself a gunsmith and not have a sight pusher is just bonkers. I’ve put sight on my Glock 26, Glock 20, P226, and (P)320 and they all shot pretty damn good. Sure if you tried to group at like 50 yards you could find som drift one way or the other, but they’re combat pistols and 25yds and in I have zero issues hitting so why worry. Again that’s me with just hobbyist level tinkering with guns. I’ve rang steel out to 100yds with all of the above pistols, too, no idea of groups but hitting the steel at 100 is good enough for me.

If you have any inclination to shoot pistols for a bit, I’d highly recommend getting even a decent sight pusher, mines paid for itself plus a bunch and I’ve helped a friend a couple times so I’d say get one!

Even when I’ve adjusted me sights, I simply took a toothpick and marked it off and kept adjusting the sight until both sides were about equal. Good enough for any shooting I’ve done.

ETA Even if you get your rear sight centered, make sure it shoots straight because I suppose there could be an off chance the front sight hole in the slide could be slightly off. I’ve never considered that until this thread, but I'd guess it’s possible, though unlikely with reputable slide manufacturers.

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Originally posted by SigSauerP226:
...I suppose there could be an off chance the front sight hole in the slide could be slightly off...

It shot dead-center with the factory sights, and since the Glock uses a screw hole to mount the front sight, I'm sure it's a rear-sight issue.

Back when I was shooting competitively, I had adjustable sights milled into the slide of my Colt Mk 4 Series 70. I couple quick adjustments at the range and I never had to adjust them again, easily keeping tight groups out to 100 yards plus.

As to buying my own sight tool, I can't see buying many more guns in the near future, I only have one other that I may change the sights on, and I don't think I'd carry it, at least not in Illinois.

Cslinger is sending me his sight pusher this week, and I watched a YouTube video on it. I suspect I'm just a few days away from solving the problem.

It’s in the mail. Sent the front sight tool with it as well. Just get it back to me when you are done. Should be there Wed.

Got your e-mail and replied. Thanks again!

DEY GOTS ME AGAIN!!!

Around last December I did some shooting with a Glock 48. I came away with a mostly positive experience noting that its biggest failing were the poor trigger which also showed on others I played with, the lack of any texture so to speak and a value proposition that seemed a bit low. That said I really dug the fact that it was a single stack G19 with a fairly long barrel and I liked that it would make a perfect “50 state gun” if you will without running a larger gun with blocked mags. It stayed in the back of my head.

Well I came across a smoking deal on a new G48 MOS and had some discounts on top so the value proposition was there. Upon receiving I was happy that it was an Austrian gun, I know it doesn’t matter especially with Glock but I like that Austria on the side, and I was very pleasantly surprised with the trigger. It was great! I mean for a striker fired Glock and in comparison to the others I had played with. The texture on the grips also seems “slightly” more aggressive. All in all most of my “complaints” were addressed.

I replaced the dovetail protectors with some Night Fision Costa sights and off to the range.

135 super pleasant rounds later she seems to run 100% with 115 grain target stuff and 124 grain HST and Gold dot offerings. No issues loading mags or “plussing up”. Extremely pleasant gun to shoot. The new sights work great, although require a hint of 12 o’clock hold with the 115 grain Norma I was shooting.

While I don’t have a bespoke holster for it I was able to use a PPS holster to test out carrying (unchambered for safety of course) and damn this gun is going to carry amazingly well. Wicked comfortable. More then the Hellcat Pro which was already carry with cheat mode enabled.

So there you have it…….DEY GOTS ME AGAIN!! . Maybe Newtosig765 should have kept my sight pusher….might have saved me money.

Take care, shoot safe,
Chris