Mounting a Sightmark Red Dot

You know, I've always wanted to put a red dot sight on one of my pistols, but I never wanted to deal with getting the slide milled or anything complicated.

The folks over at Sightmark have a base plate that allows you to put a red dot sight into the rear sight channel of your Glock pistol. I think I'll put it on and see how it works.

So the first thing we've got to do is remove the rear sight. Put the slide in the sight pusher and simply turn. Out comes the sight. Now, all we got to do is turn the handle the other way and push the sight base into the sight channel.

So now that we've got the base plate in there, all we need to do is remove the slide from the sight pusher, set that off to the side and drop this mounting plate right on top. Then we're going to use the two small screws and one drop of Blue Loctite on each screw to hold everything in place.

Just make sure that you're careful not to over-tighten these screws. You don't want to yank the threads right out through the bottom. The mounting screws for the red dot sight are already treated with Blue Loctite. Just drop them into the hole and tighten them down.

And that's all there is to installing a red dot sight with this Sightmark system. Simply remove the rear sight, replace this mounting bar [and] mounting bracket. And now you're ready to go. Now we reassemble the pistol, and we'll have to take it out to the range and see if it shoots straight.

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