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.
Last edited by fwrun; 04-18-2019 at 11:55 PM.
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.
There's nothing civil about this war.