I just sent 300 rounds down range with my 19.4 a few days ago, along with 100 rounds on my work gun (22.3), and have a serious case of Glock Knuckle.
What I came away with was that the largest point of failure in any of my shooting drills (2-2, FAST, etc.) was the mag change... Meaning that 1) I need a larger magazine release, 2) baseplates of some kind to add a bit to grab onto / add a little weight to the bottom of any empty magazine, 3) a half-moon cut at the bottom of the grip (like on my work 22.3), and 4) invest in a magwell for easier insertion.
My 19.4 has a minus connector, an extra power trigger spring, and a considerable amount of dry fire, live fire, and two passes with a polish job. It has about the best stock trigger that I can imagine for the Glock because it: 1) shortens the pre-travel slightly, 2) retains a crisp break, 3) has a tangible reset.
From what I have heard regarding the Gen 5s, the trigger accomplishes all of those tasks STOCK. It has a scallop on the grip for easier magazine extraction, STOCK. The Gen 5 magazines have flared baseplates AND have a flared magwell, STOCK.
Basically, the Gen 5 does literally everything that I have done / want to do with my current handgun, AND it has ambidextrous slide stops (which is grrrrreat!)... all STOCK.
Gens 1-4 have appeared to be largely incremental in terms of features, and Gen 5 is still incremental in strict terms in that there is no serious change to the actual operating system, but the features added are what the whole of the after market has been doing for the weapon system in the past few years.
Like Euro, I have an unhealthy obsession with the Glock pistol.
The only enhancements that the Gen 5 needs that are not yet in place are: factory RTF2 texturing available on-order, and front slide serrations. Finally, their partnership with Ameriglo for the BOLD and FBI series of sights are producing some of the best pistol sights around.
Knocking. It. Out. Of. The. Park.
My next firearms purchase (after another case or two of ammo) will be a Gen 5 Glock 19.
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