Glock 17M

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Glenn E. Meyer

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The models are being delivered to the law. Pictures should be appearing any minute. Watch for Internet fury!

Now if the Army could get off the stick.
 
So they are building a gen 2 frame with two pins again and not 3? This also has no gen marking just the 17M. And they changed it just enough so none of the aftermarket parts fit. The magwell flare should be good but thats about it unless they are finally changing the rifling so I can shoot lead reloads through the factory barrel.
 
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I see one pin.

The flared Buck Rogers Race Gun Mag Well is goofy looking and is a deal breaker for me since it would gouge into my appendix.

Contoured leading edges of the slide like the Glock 26.

I like the Glock barrel as is. The accuracy on mine has been superb. It out shoots my conventional rifled barrel pistols by a country mile.

I do not see myself drinking the M series Koolaid. Never thought I would ever say this about a Glock.

Consider the people now calling the shots and it's not hard to understand------the same folks who refer to ISIS as JV and who gave Hillary a pass.

As a young Marine who survived two tours in Afghanistan recently told me: " When it comes to small arms, you can never go wrong doing the opposite of what our Federal Govermment does. "
 
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Look at the leading portion of the frame rail----poor injection work. Looks like a kindergarten student either made the mold, poured/injected it and finished it. Note: I am a diehard Glock Guy.
 
I like the Glock barrel as is. The accuracy on mine has been superb. It out shoots my conventional rifled barrel pistols by a country mile.
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As someone that has owned numerous HKs and Glocks with polygonal rifling and has owned a number of other pistols with conventional rifling, I really don't think the polygonal rifling adds accuracy. For that matter I have a conventional rifled aftermarket barrel for my Glock 19, from KKM, that shoots noticeably better than stock simply because the fit of that particular stock barrel is relatively poor. I have other Glock pistols with stock barrels that fit much tighter.

To me accuracy in a pistol is far more to do about the fit of the barrel to the slide than the type of rifling. And either of those are well after the shooter and his/her ability to shoot that particular model well (which can involve the fit of the grip to that shooter as well as that shooter's competence with that trigger system). Then you have the manufacturing process (i.e. cold hammer forging) and the twist rate. This isn't me saying pistols can't be shot accurately as that's obviously not true.
 
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TR: It could be that I just shoot Glocks better. I'm one of those who likes the factory sights and I go so far as replacing them with the steel version after I damage the plastic ones from holster-ing and un-holstering and otherwise dinging the heck out of them and I do.

I have also become very accoustomed to the trigger reset and the Gen 3 23 and Gen 4 22 frame sans any backstrap sleeve fit my hands perfectly. The slide is relatively thin although it appears blocky so it carries well. I AIWB a Gen 3 Glock 23 all the time so they are second nature to me.

So, you could be right, it's me and the gun versus the type of barrel rifling. Whatever it is, it just works for me. I've been Glocking since 1993. I hated them until I got used to the whole idea. Now I would not own anything else. They do take some time to warm up to. They did for me anyway.


ALL: I am hearing the 19M will not have the IMO silly mag well flare and if this is the case, I will buy one when the price and time is right.
 
WB: I also find for some reason that I shoot Glocks well. There are any number of guns that "fit" my hand better, but for some reason I shoot Glocks better than those and especially so at speed. They just work for me. I keep trying different striker fired pistols and even after months of use I still end up going back to the Glock.
 
I gave up on it. Now when I handle another make, it feels weird. I also like the fact that with a minimal wipe down on days when I am perspiring heavily otherwise hardly no care in the winter months mine have not rusted even with a worn finish.
 
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