Or take a wood rasp and some sandpaper.
As for the looks...well, keep it concealed.:cool:
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The last couple days I have been strongly considering going back to a gen 4 gun, or at least buying a gen 4 completed lower and using the gen 5 upper on it.
The ambi slide stop lever on the Gen 5 is too wide in my opinion, and causes premature lock-backs for me with my Vogel-esque grip. It doesn't happen often, only whenever my grip isn't 100% perfect. If I cheat my grip (slightly loosen) for slow-fire shots where accuracy is my one and only concern, it will pop back 10-20% of the time. Keeps me honest. Had never occurred during "practical shooting" before this past Thursday, doing the IDPA 5x5 Classifier. After my first shot post-reload, it locked back. The culprit: compromised grip after a bad reload.
The Gen 5 would be true Glock Perfection if the slide release was as thin as the previous generations.
I wonder if taking a 19.5 and changing to an extra heavy 6.5# firing pin spring and unmarked connector would yield a trigger feel similar to a 19.4 with NY1 and either a dot connector or minus connector?
It is the meat of my left hand that bumps the slide release lever. I am considering shaving down the thickness of the lever to match previous generations but I will not be grinding it off, I find them essential to prompt reloads.
As far as a gen 4 lever on the gen 5 gun, it *sortof* works. I fooled around with one in there but there isn’t enough spring tension due to the lack of a locking block pin. The lever will wiggle and can potentially catch the slide open in the way they can if installed incorrectly on the old guns.