My glock front sight is off by like two degrees. If I lay a piece of paper along the sight, you can see it. If I sight down it, I can see it barely especially as I turn the gun to the right. That being said, I can still shoot quite straight, hitting a 5" circle at 20 yards 10/10. Aside from the tritium dot being slightly to the side, and the front sight appearing wider than it should, it doesn’t affect shootability.
I guess the main thing is my gun shop treats me rather poorly when I complain about it and ask them to straighten their work. They make me feel like a OCD butthole for asking… I don’t know. If I pay for it, I say I should get it. I digress though. What do you gentlemen think?
It’s unacceptable, and I would make them fix it, and never shop there again. There are plenty of shops who want your business and will treat you right to keep it.
In my experience with different brand sights for Glocks, the front sight is known to turn from side to side in the way you’re describing. I have seen this with Meprolight, Heinie, Warren Tactical, etc. In order for the front sight blade to be able to drop into the hole on the front of the slide, there is a little bit of wiggle room allowed. Some brands allow more than others, Meprolight vs Heinie for example. As you tighten the screw on the bottom of the sight to mount it to the slide, the sight tries to rotate the tighter you torque the screw. One trick is to hold the sight blade firmly with pliers (tape the sight blade to avoid marring) as you tighten the screw.
That being said, even with my front sight firmly mounted with the screw loc-tite’d using red loc-tite, every now and again I’ll find a front sight blade looking ever so slightly off center. I have not noticed it effecting accuracy POA/POI at all, even out past 50 yards.
Those who are jumping on the F*$K the gunshop bus either don’t know squat about how a front sight mounts on a Glock, didn’t bother to read that you have a Glock or have never bothered to mount their own sights. That or it is some of TOS issues that have been creeping into this forum as of late.
I have 7 Glocks at the moment and some models when paired with specific brands of sights exhibit this issue more than others. I wouldn’t get spun out about it.
This is common. I wish glock would go to a dovetail front sight system instead of that stupid hole thing.
Most guys probably never notice it. I’m super anal about sight picture… so I hold my sight straight with pliers when installing the sight screw in the bottom.
I think the “stupid hole thing” is quite easy actually.
OP, buy a replacement front sight and install it yourself in the future. It’s really easy to do. Ameriglo usually supplies the tool to do the installation when you order from their website. that’s the route I’d go.
