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<blockquote data-quote="druryj" data-source="post: 2772864" data-attributes="member: 10465">I kinda buggered my front sight up on this pistol <img src="/images/smilies/new/homer.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":homer:" title="Homer&nbsp; &nbsp; :homer:" data-shortname=":homer:" /> and after some whining and begging,&nbsp; S&amp;W sent me a new one.&nbsp; (Okay, okay...so I bubba&#039;ed the damn thing all to hell and back; it&#039;s a long story). Anyway.&nbsp; The front sight on these things is plastic and is just pressed into a dovetail in the slide.&nbsp; There is no screw or anything to hold it.&nbsp; I am not real sure how to go about taking the old, buggered up front sight out and installing the new one.&nbsp; If it was metal, I could just put the slide in a vise and punch/push it out and then punch/push the new one in.&nbsp; But since it&#039;s plastic, I am afraid I will bugger the new one up too.&nbsp; Does anyone have any smart <img src="/images/smilies/image1030.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":teach:" title="Image1030&nbsp; &nbsp; :teach:" data-shortname=":teach:" />suggestions on how to accomplish this relatively simple-seeming task on the M&amp;P .22 Compact?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="druryj, post: 2772864, member: 10465"] I kinda buggered my front sight up on this pistol :homer: and after some whining and begging, S&W sent me a new one. (Okay, okay...so I bubba'ed the damn thing all to hell and back; it's a long story). Anyway. The front sight on these things is plastic and is just pressed into a dovetail in the slide. There is no screw or anything to hold it. I am not real sure how to go about taking the old, buggered up front sight out and installing the new one. If it was metal, I could just put the slide in a vise and punch/push it out and then punch/push the new one in. But since it's plastic, I am afraid I will bugger the new one up too. Does anyone have any [I]smart [/I] :teach:suggestions on how to accomplish this relatively simple-seeming task on the M&P .22 Compact? [/QUOTE]

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