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Oh my gosh, I actually like my Gen 5 Glock 17. After reading all the comments from experts around here declaring the obvious failings of the Gen 5 Glocks, I expected today to pick up my new Glock 17 Gen 5 and be woefully disappointed. But ....
I love it.
Love the fact is has no finger grooves, humps and what not. SO much easier for me to grip and it feels GREAT.
Love the trigger. Definitely and noticeably less gritty, mushy and a crisper break and reset. If is HUGELY different, no, but ... every bit helps. I had the guys in the gun shop where I picked it up try it and one Glock fanatic in particular was particularly impressed. FWIW...again, nothing HUGELY better, but ... heck...nice.
I really like the new magazines, very easy to see the orange through the holes in the mag. Hope we can buy more soon.
The internals appear to be improved, the safety "plunger" looks much more robust.
The finish/coating on the slide is very nice. A nice rich black, rather than an anemic grey and the barrel appears to be treated comparably.
The front of the slide is nicely bevelled and while the critics (idiots!) here are declaring the frame not equally beveled, it looks great and just fine and dandy.
The RTF treatment on the grip is great, in fact, just about perfect in my opinion. I may or may not throw some Talon grips on it.
I purchased mine with Ameriglo Sights and they are GREAT...excellent front post width and rear sight width. For less than $100 bucks more, a good investment.
I've put together a HUGE photo album on Imgur if you want to take a look at it in detailed photos.
I noticed a few things:
The frame has a "tab" that fills/blocks a slot in the back of the slide, I used a Gen 3 Glock 17 for comparison's sake. You can see what I'm talking about in the photos.
Take a look at the photos, in a many of them I'm comparing this Gen 5 to a Gen 3 and I tried to show the difference in barrel rifling.
Click on this link to see this Glock 17 Gen 5 album, and you will notice a number of images where I'm comparing it to a Glock 17 Gen 3 model (in OD green).
https://imgur.com/a/OZegu
I've watched probably every Gen5 review video on YouTube. I've literally seen 1 piece of brass out the hundreds of rounds on video hit someone in the face and it was the last round of the magazine. I'll chalk that up to ammo. I have an apex extractor in my Gen4 19 that solved BTF, my 17 and 43 doesn't BTF, 26 does still BTF with certain ammo (not carry ammo). I'm thinking BTF is probably a non issue with the Gen5s.
While I can not say yet for the gen 5 19 model yet, all of my gen 5 17 feedback has been positive so far wth duty rounds and good magazines.
25 yards. Not too shabby. Gen 5 19 with tru glo tritium pros. Winchester white box ammo. 46 degrees out with almost no wind. Still getting used to the smooth trigger face.
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Last edited by TacticalFun; 09-10-17 at 17:52.
i had the will power to not buy guns. I even bought a gun store and work for a company that manufactures the forging machines for said guns. I need help.
Yep...she's pretty good @ 25
Heinie 10/8 rear trijicon HD front
124gr RN handloads
Gen 5 19
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Last edited by boombotz401; 09-10-17 at 20:39.
While I agree that my feedback has been pretty good overall. Maybe, it could be more useful to the group possibly to add more information besides targets. Not to play devil's advocate, but more to avoid possible flak. Model in question, ammunition used, position/ possible support, etc..
More to validate information, than to make arguments to invalidate that.
Last edited by tom12.7; 09-10-17 at 18:09. Reason: s
Thank you, additional information can help in many ways.
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