92F sights

[Fear]

I bought an old Beretta a while ago and it's sat in my drawer until I took it to the range a little while back with some other guns and realized the sights are useless. It has a tall match-style sight in the rear and a stocker in front. So, unless I attempt the 200-yard mortar-attack approach at shooting or ignore sights and shoot gangster-sideways above my head-style of shooting, the gun is useless.

 

Anyone local stock Beretta sights and the press tool for the dovetail? At this point, stock rear sight is fine but I'm always up for the night-sights. Not much point to match-sights on a carry 9mm.

 

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Shooting close in, around 10 or 15 yards, I get closer to the bullseye with 92 or cougar putting the front sight dot right "ontop" of the bullseye. Putting the top of the front sight "right below" the bullseye seems to shoot low. But maybe that's just me.

Years ago I put an adjustable sight on one of my 92's, which works good. That 92 seemed to get more accurate as it broke in, but maybe that was just my imagination. Bought the replacement sight from Dillon (the reloading company). It seems about the same height as the factory sight. Can't recall the brand but it was a real common brand.

It would probably go smoother nowadays, but back then I was even dumber than nowadays it was a difficult install. Just about bent a brass punch into a pretzel before getting the factory sight pounded out and the new sight pounded in. Was afraid I'd beat the slide apart, but the slide was tough enough to survive with nary a scratch. Strong steel.

[Fear]

I'm thinking I wasn't clear. My rear sight is tall, my front sight is short. Not a matched set. So when I aim at a target in an indoor range, the bullseye is centered in my sight, but the bullet is going to the ceiling because someone installed a tall rear sight without installing a tall front sight. I have tons of punches, but feel my upper receiver would look like a dogs chew-toy by the time I got the sights swapped with just punches and not the cool clamp-on press that pushes sights in and out of dovetails. I was just hoping someone carries Beretta parts around Nashville. I figured they would because this was a standard military sidearm model for some time so I figured there's a lot of vets with tooling,parts and knowledge on servicing the M9 Beretta (92F).