Question for the folks who actually have and maintain a comprehensive firearms service schedule of duty Glock pistols - what would constitute a "stopgap" refurbish of a .40 Gen 3 G23 until new pistols are procured, hopefully during the 20/21 FY.
A little background information first - We had one of our fourteen year old Gen 3 G23s go down hard at the annual qualification session on Monday. Multiple failures to eject and extract with all issued magazines.
I suspected a locking block or pin failure. Sure enough, the locking block was broken in two, the trigger pin was broken and missing a third of it, and the locking block pin was bent. This has happened twice before with these older G23s that were utilized as academy training guns with correspondingly high round counts. This particular gun concerned me more because it has been issued to the same veteran deputy since July '05. He is also a shooter on his own time, which leads me to believe his pistol has a higher round count than average. Most of our folks are not shooters.
For the non shooters, the round counts on these guns is probably around the two thousand five hundred mark. Recoil springs were finally changed last year on nearly all of the '05 pistols. Turns out that this deputy's gun did not get the new spring and he practiced over the weekend before his qual.
Our Comptroller asked for a dollar figure to get the older guns in a better condition until the new ones can be bought.
This is what I came up with:
Part # 4361 – Locking Block - $20 each x about 250 guns still in service – I am trying to get an exact count. $5000 total
Part# 4368 – Locking Block Pin - $2 each x 250= $500 total
Part #420 – Trigger Pin - $2 each x 250= $500 total
Part #2317 – Slide lock spring - $2 each x 250 +$500 total
Grand total without night sights - $6500
If new night sights are included:
Part #39724 – Glock Night sights - $67 each x 250=$16750
Grand total with new night sights - $23250
This does not include labor.
I am inclined to omit the new night sights at this time. We have not had night fire in-service since the Great Recession. (That is decided way above my pay grade).
Thoughts? Constructive criticism is always welcome.