Help removing sight on Taurus revolvers!

[syoungs]

So I've got a Taurus tracker 44, that broke it's rear sight after the 5th round was fired, wouldn't hold a zero. Taurus sent me a replacement sight a couple weeks ago, looks real easy to drive the roll pin out, swap the sight, drive the pin back in....

Looks real easy. But the pin don't move, I ended up bending my cheap punch, and I'm afraid to keep going at it and peening the pin in or something.

Any tips or tricks to get it out? Or should I bite the bullet and just drop it at a Smith?

[Bofire]

Smith
Carl

[syoungs]

 . Your right. Hopefully they don't take 5 months to get it back to me! Might just send it back to the factory, that's the other option.

[Evil_EdwardO]

Are you possibly knocking the pin in the wrong direction?

[j_h_nimrod]

Are you possibly knocking the pin in the wrong direction?

As far as I know they don't use a tapered pin, but trying from the opposite side can't hurt. Make sure your punch is small enough as well, I remember some of these pins that were slightly smaller than a standard 1/16" punch.

[syoungs]

I went both directions yeah, the punch is smaller then the pin for sure, but the pin has a somewhat rounded head, making it tough to get a good solid punch, with the punch. My biggest hurdle is just supporting the gun while trying to hammer on it.
Gonna swing it by cowboys and Indians tomorrow to have them take a look at it.

[Blacklab]

A ole friend had or has a tracker 357. Three shots and the front sight fell out 

[ndcasla]

Send it to Taurus for repair. I had a problem with a mdl 85, sent it to them, got it back in about a month fixed.