Need to push a Kimber rear sight

[olsigsalt]

I have a Kimber Custom II with the night sights that shoots a couple of inches to the right at 12 yards. Is there anyone in the Galveston area who has a tool for this or who can help me out?

Thanks

 

[dee]

You really need to get the tool cause if you try and use a drift punch the hammering force can bust the sights and the tritium can leak out.

 

[Freedom1911]

I take it, it is a non adjustable, drifted sight.
My XD was off a few inches too. You could see by looking at it that it had not been centered at the factory. I took a small piece of 1/4 inch key stock and a hammer and drifted the sight more to center. I still need to take it back to the range to see how it turned out.
The key stock looks like this
Start out with lite strikes on the side of the sight, If it is shooting to the left, drift the sight to the right as you are aiming. If the sight does not move, do it again but hit it a little harder, some sights have to be hit pretty hard to get them to move but you don't want to start out hitting hard.
Lite strikes, adding a little power to each one until the sight moves a little. You can put electricians, duct etc tape on the end of the key stock to help prevent marring the sight, but if you have to hit it hard it might scratch it.
If this gun is a hi dollar item a Smith might be better, but the above directions worked for me.

Good luck.

 

[Freedom1911]

My sights are Tritium sights and I had not leaking, and I had to smack it fairly hard to get it to move.
As a matter of curiosity, where would a person get "the tool" to properly move a pistol sight. I have looked on the net and could not find anything.

Thanks

 

[fnmedallion]

brownell's sells the tool that you need

 

[olsigsalt]

Thanks for the advice

Thanks for the good advice folks. Dee I did not know I could break the tritium loose with a punch. I will certainly not do so. I used to have such a tool that I used on my Sigs but it is basically $90 for a one time use. The gun is new, perhaps I can send it back to Kimber with a few targets (shot from bench rest) and they can push the rear sights.

 

[Texas1911]

Mailing it to Kimber would cost you the same amount of money to buy the tool.

 

[dee]

I would call around to your local gun smiths to see if any of them would do it. I had a set of meprolights installed on my Colt 1911 and it was $35 that included the rear dovetail sight and the front stake on site installed so I'm sure it would cost less just to move the rear site.

 

[Freedom1911]

brownell's sells the tool that you need

Cool. What is the tool. What is it called?
Sight drifter? Sight adjustment tool? Sight maker righter?

HA! found them. Cool beans. found 4 of them but one is more than 500.00 ouch.
Thanks for the info.

Cheersatriot:

 

[olsigsalt]

Good points

Good points made. I will hunt down a gunsmith. There is a shop in Texas City that can probably do it. You are right about mailing it. Mailing handguns to the factory these days is a nightmare.

 

[gerritm]

Pasadsena Gun Center can do it and you can shoot it there to check it. They have a gunsmith there. Give them a call.