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Taurus rear sights are not pressed in as tight as M&P or Sig, so budget sight pushers handle them. Which tools fit the G2C, G3, G3C and GX4, the GX4’s slim slide, and the one Taurus quirk to watch.

Hellcat slides are slim and XD rear sights are tall, so fixed-height clamps tilt or land the shoe on the slide. The adjustable and full-capture sight pushers that fit Springfield pistols, and the front-sight note.

1911 sight pushers compared: which tools handle the 65-degree Novak dovetail, the rounded slide top, dovetailed front sights and the set screw under most 1911 rear sights.

Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0 and Shield rear sights are among the tightest factory sights on any pistol. The sight pushers that move them without stripping, why budget aluminum tools fail here, and the stuck-sight sequence.

Sig rear sights are flat-backed and Sig slides are rounded, which is why Glock pushers and flat two-jaw universals slip. The sight pushers that fit the P365, P320 and P226, and how to handle Sig’s tight factory sights.

The best Glock sight pushers compared: why universal tools slip on Glock’s angled rear sight, which pushers fit Gen 5 and MOS slides, and the right tool for G43/43X/48 slimlines.

Glock, M&P and most Sig front sights are screw-in, not dovetailed, so a front sight pusher is wasted on them. Which pistols have dovetailed fronts, the pushers with a real front adapter, and how to push a front sight near the muzzle.

The best cheap sight pusher tools compared by failure rate, not price tag. Which budget universals strip, which hold, the one habit that saves them, and when the Wheeler is the cheaper buy.

“Universal” means something different on every sight pusher listing. We checked clamp type, shoe set and clamp height against Glock, Sig P320, M&P, 1911, Hellcat and CZ slides. These are the universal sight pushers that are universal for real.

Wheeler Handgun Sight Tool vs the Patch Heavy Duty Universal, Amazon’s bestselling sight pusher: clamp, shoes, push block, frame, what happens on a seized sight, and who should buy which.

Sight pushers fall into three price tiers: budget aluminum universals, mid-tier name brands with steel push blocks, and gunsmith-grade machined tools. What each tier buys you, what it gives up, and the gunsmith and rental break-even.

Whether to use thread locker on pistol sights, which strength (blue 242, never red), where it goes (the set screw and the Glock front sight nut, never the dovetail), cure time, and how to remove a sight that someone glued in.