WARNING: This is more a rant than anything else.

After telling myself for a few years that the Glock factory sights are fine; I have finally decided that I need to drop the dough and get myself a better set of sights. I ended up getting a Warren/Sevigny “Competition” rear with a Fiber Optic front. I still have not received them (they should be at my door on Monday) but I already know that the front sight is a snap to install (just use the provided tool and add a bit of red Loctite).

Well this is where my rant begins… A friend of mine stopped by my work this morning to say “Hi” and, as he was leaving he told me that he was going to stop by the gunsmith shop to pick up his pistol (he was having a trigger job done). I told him to ask the gunsmith how much he would charge me to install the rear sight. It turns out the smith charges $20 to push in a sight!! I am not talking about machining the slide or anything like that; I just wanted him to push it in (this won’t even take two minutes). I know this is a business and that this guy has to pay rent but I find that a tad excessive. For that price I might as well just buy the sight pusher myself and keep it for future projects (they usually run for about $60). Now I am going to have to wait another week for the pusher to arrive in the mail.

I just wanted to vent my frustration; thank you all for reading!