Think some jackwad installed my sights!

[speakle]

Well I got my trijicon's installed on my xd40 sub today and I am a bit . I paid out the a$$ for them at $115+tax but he said they install them for free if I buy them there so I figure what the hell, makes my life easier for a few bucks more. Well it was busy in there today but I noticed a few things while I was in there but some wiped off so I just figured the guy was dirty. Now I see the side of the sights have tool marks in them (like a punch head size) but it was definatley pressed I think..... I have some pics but they didnt come out so good, dont think you can see anything. I will just suck it up since you cant tell unless you look close IF it shoots as good as it did before. If its off I am going to raise hell. I waited 2 f'in days for the "gun guy" to come in and I get crap for work. What really gives me the red a$$ is I didnt go back and say anything!!!!!

[speakle]

As I figured..didnt come out worth a crap. I dont know how to get it to focus up close like that. Its a great camera (canon a620) anyone know anything about it?

[thomye]

The carpet's in focus...

That sucks man. I ended up buying the sites and cecided to get a site pusher. I have 3 xd's and I didn't want this kind of thing happening to me. Bummed for you man. Did they damage the gun at all?

[ajamesp51]

hold the pistol in the air then take a picture of the slide. Dont put the slide next to anything since it will focus on the largest object. I feel sorry for you installing the sights are not that hard so there really is no excusse for your local smith to mess it up like that. Let us know where you got the sights installed it may help the next person.

[nightraider]

Installing the sights is so incredibly easy that it takes maybe, maybe 15 minutes, took me only 5. You should of just installed them yourself, live and learn.

Pushing the sights off, now thats a task for the experts and the right tools.

[speakle]

Upon further inspection they were put on with a hammer and a center punch. The trijicons are made very well and that is the only reason they held up as well as they did. There are at least 7 dimples tightly grouped on the rear sight and you can tell the guy over did it because there are only 2-3 dimples on the other side where he beat it back. The front sight has dimples on it as well on the lower and middle part of the blade. There are some burrs on the gun as well as a small gouge running trhough the channel of the rear sight.

The saddest part of this whole matter is I live across the street from my dad who has a machine shop. He is a machinist and I have done a lot of work in the shop and am VERY good with my hands. I just figured...its a precision piece of equipment, I will leave it to a professional. We literally could have made a sight pusher in 3-4 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am going back tomorrow and I am going to tell him to take the sights off and give me my money back. The jack*## threw away my old ones because they are not in the trijicon package so I will have a gun with no sights but I can get them cheaper and I WILL do it myself next time. I swear I dont know why I let others do work for me. If I do it myself I know it will be done right. SOrry to run on here I am just really aggravated!

[KYDoc]

That sucks. Sorry 'bout your luck.

[DoctorDawg]

It's not too late to go back in and tell them to try again with a new pair of sights and, this time, do it right. While you're saying that don't be angry or rude, but be firm; don't give them any reason to write you off as a jerk. If they tell you to go fish, request to speak to the manager. If he tells you to go fish, request to speak to the owner. Or, if this is like a major chain store, go home and Google the e-mail address of the company's CEO, then send him a polite and clear explanation of the situation; make no demands, just tell him you thought he might want to know how his troops are alienating customers. Don't ramble, and use correct punctuation and a spellchecker. Include your address and phone number in your signature.

I do this all the time. CEOs read their e-mail just like everbody else, and they hate hearing stories like this. Nine times out of ten you'll get a call from the CEO's secretary, apologizing and offering to make everything right.

How to find the CEO's email address? First find out his name (check the company web site, and/or Google "Company-X CEO"). Then Google "@companyx.com" (or whatever the company's domain name is); you'll turn up dozens of employees' email addresses. None of them will be the CEO's, but at least you'll learn what pattern the company uses for usernames, like maybe firstname.lastname@companyx.com. Your email will bounce if you didn't get it right, in which case try the other obvious alternatives, like firstinitial_lastname@companyx.com.

Squeaky wheel still gets the grease, so start squeakin', man...

[The Knight Of Light]

Hopefully he didn't bust the tritium inserts. They might look OK now but keep an eye on them and make sure they don't go dim on you.

[speakle]

The owner of the store is who I dealt with, he works there all the time. He has some guy come in a few times a week to do gunsmithing. I will be very polite but will certainly express my feelings about the job. I am just going to ask him to remove them and give me my money back. I will then order the sights off ebay for $30-40 less and do it myself. I will give you guys an update tomorrow.