Heavily Modified Glocks, all the kool-kids are doing it...

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But be careful, as seen in this link, things don't always go as planned.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/...ENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED--CENSORED-=buffer

I have to admit, I'm a little biased with this new craze. I don't understand changing the frame, cutting the slide, and all the things that aren't necessarily a "need" to most of the people who are doing it.

This link is from June 29, 2016. But it keeps getting updated from what I understand.
 
Even some less-severe tinkering goes bad. I am a member at a Glock forum, too, and when failures occur the first question asked is, "What have you changed?," and the first advice given is to return the pistol to factory parts.
 
I'm ok with the MOS. But all these serrations, fancy triggers and barrels are not my thing. Certainly not for $1500 and up.

But who am I to talk?

I put my Glock 23 into a Micro Roni Stab with a Primary Arms Microdot, TLR4 laser/light.

But I can also shoot out to 75 yards, either hand, and it works like a SEMIAUTO UZI. But it stays a Glock, as this is just a cocoon.



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Even some less-severe tinkering goes bad. I am a member at a Glock forum, too, and when failures occur the first question asked is, "What have you changed?," and the first advice given is to return the pistol to factory parts.
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Pretty much every time I've taken advice from "teh Internet" on gun modification, I've taken it back to factory. Only exception is grips and sometimes sights.

It usually turns out not to have been worth doing.
 
Saturday, I was talking to a Glock armorer about this subject, and this advice deserves repeating; "don't do to it what you can't undo to it".
 
The problem is that the Glock is a fine ootb tool. When you try to make it look cool without knowing what the result/conseqare, then you invite failure.

The other issue id s $600 Glock has a crappy trigger. There are inherent design issues to overcome. Playing with parts can yield unreliable results. The stock parts can be polished and fit to make a pretty good trigger.

Adding $600 in more parts will get you something, but a target trigger it is not. Better to give the stock parts to a gunsmith and have him dial it in a bit safely. Ask for a 2 lb teigger snd it will be done, but not safely!
 
Seems like many entrepreneurs with access to a soldering iron and milling machine have discovered a Gold Mine in the plastic pistol modification craze. Witness the video game inspired pistol on the cover of the latest American Handgunner magazine. There's not much left on that pistol that hasn't been subjected to the soldering iron and/or milling machine. Don't know how many video gamers at the keyboard in their underwear in their parents basement can afford the ~$3000.00 price tag, but I wish them well;)

Reminds me of those silly fantasy knives sometimes seen for sale. Perhaps the same customer base?
 
I wouldn't go to the extent a lot of folks do, but frankly it's their money and impacts me not at all.


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I've got a few guns that are purely "range toys" and I do what I want to them. But the guns I might have to bet my life on don't get changed much. Basically I only change them if one or more of the following is true:

1. The change involves factory parts and is to a manufacturer recommended configuration. An example might be changing to factory night sights.

2. The change is one that is required to deal with a specific and non-voluntary user requirement that can not easily/reasonably be met in other ways and the final configuration is tested thoroughly and is not one that the manufacturer specifically recommends against. An example might be adding an extended slide stop to a gun for a user who can't easily release the slide manually due to hand strength/health issues.

3. The change is very minor/the new part does not alter functionality in any significant way and the new configuration is thoroughly tested. An example of this might be going to aftermarket magazine springs from a reputable parts manufacturer.
 
Pretty much every time I've taken advice from "teh Internet" on gun modification, I've taken it back to factory. Only exception is grips and sometimes sights.
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I first heard about the D spring for the Beretta 92FS on the net, but aside from that I am with you.
 
A buddy of mine put a compensated barrel on his G20 (10mm), and even loading over recommended max, cases were still barely dribbling out of the ejection port.
He kept lightening the recoil spring to increase slide velocity, but it got to the point that the striker spring was as stiff as the recoil spring, and when you pulled the trigger you could see the slide moving out of battery. :eek:
That was the end of the project.
 
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