hawkway PST35 Iron Sight Pusher Tool Installation & Disassembly Bench Vise for Sight Adjustment Tool

Great build. Solid frame with no flex during proper use. Adaptable to a wide variety of semi-auto handguns in every conceivable size. The best feature is that you can pull the two bottom screws and remove the base so that it can be clamped to a fully assembled pistol for quick sight adjustments at the range without breaking the pistol down. Shoot a group, unload, clamp on the top of the slide and make your fine adjustment. Quick to remove, you can load back up and verify your adjustments in seconds.If you have particularly stiff or difficult sights, keep the bottom part on and mount only the slide into the tool. The added clamping action of the base, with it mounted in a vice or directly to a bench, gives you the leverage to install, remove, or adjust pretty much any rear sight you'll run into.The front sight tool also threads into the rear sight adjustment screw to give you leverage and control. I was able to make very fine sight adjustments with ease.My only very minor issue was that the tool was dry out of the box. The black oxide screws are threaded into aluminum without any lube or anti-seize. Just like your firearm or any other gun tool, take it apart and apply some light lubricating oil to the threads. Wipe off any excess oil and reassemble. You'll be smoothly adjusting sights for years to come.Highly recommend.EDIT: Review update for May 2024... This tool will NOT work on S&W M&P pistols. The rear sight on the M&P and Shield models have the rear portion of the sight offset from the dovetail by a significant amount. This tool pushes on the rear part of the sight and due to the tight, offset dovetail fit, it cannot put pressure in the correct direction to drift these sights off of these frames. Not changing my star rating, but understand the limitation of the tool.

Read the directions and make sure it's solidly mounted before you use it. It's designed for Glock sights, but I used it for my FN pistol, 2 Novak cut 1911s and my G48. In one day I was able to get all 4 done in a short time.Picture is my FN Reflex, which is a very small pistol.Understand how the tool works, before you try it out. Ruger 1911 sights can be a bear to replace, and this tool made it easy. If you are looking for a similar application, make sure you heat up the slide a bit with a heat gun to expand it a bit and prevent scratching the finish. Ruger uses adhesive when they install the sights. Heat breaks it down.It also helped me easily install a new sight set on my FN Reflex. It's adaptable, decent quality and well made.Make sure you lube the threads before starting, or it may not work as well for you. I used regular white lithium grease and it made it fairly straightforward to use. Just try it a few times, before you secure your slide into the pusher. Also understand some sights install left to right, and right to left. If you try and force it out the wrong way, you can damage both the pusher and the slide.Measure the sight cut before you try to push the old sights out, so you avoid this. And before you do anything, grease the threads and work it around a few times until it's smooth. I also recommend cleaning the threads before you grease them to remove the preservation chemical used to prevent rust in storage.For the cash, I have yet to use one this nice. I've had several over the years and this is the best quality at this price point.

My only gripe is the little silicone like tubes that press up against the gun aren’t all that secure. They fall out easily. I bought it for my 380 bodyguard and the slide is so small on that pistol that it would just roll the slide when it got really tight. It did push it a little bit tho. Enough I was able to pound it out with a roll pin where I couldn’t before. I like that you can bolt it down to a bench too. Multiple adjustment knobs for anything you need to line up your sight or remove it.

I got it to change the sights on my Colt 1911 45 automatic. It would not even bug the site the base plate where you adjust it up to hold the barrel housing in place as you turn the dial to move the site the entire Barrel flexes to the way you're trying to remove the site and the brace from the bottom flexes with it because there's only one single post threaded post that is supposed to hold it in place. Not to mention you have to be Hercules to turn the thing when it's time to move the site. Tried it on a newer handgun I had in neither case would it remove the site in one instance it went through their pads and scratched the top of my gun

So upon ordering this device I was very skeptical of it due it's description. I was curious how it would work on all kinds of models. After receiving it and using it on multiple type of fire arms (will not disclose models or any information on them due to its sensitivity) I am high suprised at how easy this was to use. One of the sights I had took a beating from a previous job and also training with it. After I left that it left my rear sight way our of line. I didn't even need to use the directions to use this piece of equipment. It just made sense. Its very solid. It's powder coating it's really nice. And it definitely well made. There is an option to mount it if you want. But tbh you don't need too. There is measurements on the inside and you should know your specs. All of mine now have proper alignment. And it took all of 20minutes. I highly recommend the hawkway PST35 Iron Sight Pusher.It's also very light weight so if you are doing a lot of training. Traveling is very feasible for this equipment.It also comes with multiple uses as well. Adjusting front sights. Or the vise portion for holding the slide to install sights or other repairs with fixing your sights or installing them.It comes in 3 colors. Red black and blue and will hopefully come in some camo colors in the future.This is a must have! The price and the quality are unmatched!