One of the albeit lesser draws to me of switching from my Gen 4 G17's to Gen 5 G45's was the potential to run a threaded G19 barrel and still have the gun fit in all my existing G17 holsters. In case you didn't know, I have an AAC Evo-9 that is old school cool and has some nostalgia attached to it, but I haven't shot it on a pistol in years. Heck, I haven't even owned a pistol I could host in on in years.
So yesterday I met a guy locally selling an S3F fluted and threaded G19 barrel in black nitride for $120. Decent price and scratches an itch, so why not? I'd also read several reports of the S3F barrels being quite accurate. Maybe moreso than Gen 3 and Gen 4 guns, but it's not more accurate than the Gen 5 guns. It's about the same and maybe slightly less; at least with the 115gr Fiocchi I was using today. It does allow me to mount my can, though, and that was really the whole point. I'm running the Ameriglo Agent sights on this pistol and they're just tall enough to almost have tops of blades even with top of can. Basically, use a "drive-the-dot" sight picture with the can and you'll "mostly" hit the target. One cool feature of the EVO, though, is it's adjustable piston and I was able to dial it in to POA = POI at 7yds with this ammo, but that was after I took these pics.
7yd, 10-shot freestyle groups:
25yd 10-shot freestyle groups:
This is with the stock barrel and I think the group suffered by trying to aim at a 1" square in an indoor range @ 25yds. Still not bad overall:
I will say I'm anxiously awaiting the release of the ACRO and plan to have one of my G45's direct milled for one. Maybe once the RDS is in-play I'll appreciate the can more. Until then, it's good for nothing but a range toy and posting sweet pics on instagram to whore for likes