*THE* Gen 5 Glock thread: First Impressions, Reviews and Thoughts

[JodyH]

Only had enough time to run 100 rounds of Federal American Eagle 115gr. FMJ through it today.
Zero malfunctions (stock recoil spring), comp stayed tight (cleaned threads with acetone prior to the Locktite and torqued it tight).
RDS zero remained the same.
Muzzle rise was tamed to the point the dot never left the window at any time, pretty noticeable.
I'm looking forward to trying some +P and +P+ when I get a chance to see if more gas equals more better.

[CDFIII]

Only had enough time to run 100 rounds of Federal American Eagle 115gr. FMJ through it today.
Zero malfunctions (stock recoil spring), comp stayed tight (cleaned threads with acetone prior to the Locktite and torqued it tight).
RDS zero remained the same.
Muzzle rise was tamed to the point the dot never left the window at any time, pretty noticeable.
I'm looking forward to trying some +P and +P+ when I get a chance to see if more gas equals more better.

Very nice.. I have one very similar I’ve been carrying for a year or so now.

[Duke]

The Roland continues to impress

[TOTS]

The Roland continues to impress

I thought you hated Glocks!!! Don’t cave in, I’ve been using you as inspiration to stay strong in the “not-shooting-Glock” club!!

[HCM]

Actually, listening to the discussion where the developer of the gun was talking about the “why”, it started as a joke but he found a lot of functionality from the comp as he was teaching mainly closed enrollment classes and found himself shooting thousands of rounds of duty ammo. I think he specifically mentioned 147 Ranger T +P.

"Roland" aka Chuck Pressburg was a member of an Army Special Mission Unit at the time, meaning training with actual 9mm 124 grain NATO ball (+P equivalent).

You can listen first hand here, nothing about 147 Ranger T +P.

[ECVMatt]

Well I added some Ameriglo Agent Sights to the G45 and headed out to the desert to confirm zero and do some shooting. It is extremely windy but I am happy with the results.I have some small tweaking to do to get the sights aligned and will head back out tomorrow with hopefully less wind. Pics just because.....

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[Duke]

I thought you hated Glocks!!! Don’t cave in, I’ve been using you as inspiration to stay strong in the “not-shooting-Glock” club!!

Well to get here I’ve done all the things to it that folks say don’t do - and I dig it.

[GearFondler]

Well to get here I’ve done all the things to it that folks say don’t do - and I dig it.

I just did the same to a Gen3 and it's a bad-ass blaster... "Leaving it stock" is un-American.

[TOTS]

"Roland" aka Chuck Pressburg was a member of an Army Special Mission Unit at the time, meaning training with actual 9mm 124 grain NATO ball (+P equivalent).

You can listen first hand here, nothing about 147 Ranger T +P.

Yeah, I’ve heard all Chuck’s stuff from Patreon and Primary and Secondary. Wasn’t referring to the origin story. He developed the gun initially as a joke but observed it really worked. The Ranger T comment came from a podcast after he retired and started Presscheck Consulting. During the closed enrollment classes, he uses the gear, guns, and ammo the customer uses. He had to shoot alot of a certain agency’s duty ammo (the Ranger T) for a class and was commenting about how “legit” that ammo was and how well it worked with the comp. It seemed relevant to the question EVP asked. I’ll link to it if I ever come across it again. I believe it was during the opening of one of the modcasts.

PS, while I won’t speak for SF or the Rangers, I know a lot of SOF guys do shoot duty ammunition for training. A MARSOC buddy I train with gave me a couple boxes of 124 Federal Hydroshock from a pallet that DOJ left them after a training package.

[HCM]

Yeah, I’ve heard all Chuck’s stuff from Patreon and Primary and Secondary. Wasn’t referring to the origin story. He developed the gun initially as a joke but observed it really worked. The Ranger T comment came from a podcast after he retired and started Presscheck Consulting. During the closed enrollment classes, he uses the gear, guns, and ammo the customer uses. He had to shoot alot of a certain agency’s duty ammo (the Ranger T) for a class and was commenting about how “legit” that ammo was and how well it worked with the comp. It seemed relevant to the question EVP asked. I’ll link to it if I ever come across it again. I believe it was during the opening of one of the modcasts.

PS, while I won’t speak for SF or the Rangers, I know a lot of SOF guys do shoot duty ammunition for training. A MARSOC buddy I train with gave me a couple boxes of 124 Federal Hydroshock from a pallet that DOJ left them after a training package.

Until the MHS program most .mil training was done with M882 ball which is nato spec / equal to plus p. Back in the light fighter days, long before P&S people were trying KKM comps and complaining to Roland when the would not run with weak sally world Winchester white box. The answer was - the concept was for nato spec ammo, don’t be poor.

Many traveling instructors doing GOV agency classes include the host agency supplying them ammo. OPA (Other Peoples Ammo)is the best kind of ammo.

Re: hydra shok - though some SOF used pistol hollow points during the GWOT I don’t believe it was hydra shok. Ammo guns and gear get distributed, traded, surplussed among .GOV agencies all the time. We’ve had old hydra shok 9mm 124 surpluses from another agency as training ammo- it’s likely how your buddy encountered it. I’ve mentioned before shooting British surplus L2A2,5.56 as training ammo.

Since the hotter the ammo the better the company works I kinda want a to comp a G23.5 MOS ..