Has anyone who had issues (trigger bar flaking, failure to extract, etc.) been able to fix the problems?
Has Glock worked out all the bugs with the Gen 5's?
Carry a Gen 3 19 bought in April 2015 and looking to either purchase a back up or "upgrade" to the Gen 5, if it's worth it.
Haven't heard of any trigger bars flacking on recent production guns. Pick up an extra trigger bar, just in case. In the event it happens, it doesn't stop the pistol from functioning, only makes the trigger heavy and gritty. Swap out the bar and your GTG again.
The Gen5 Guns are GTG. I have rotated all my earlier Gen guns to Gen 5's
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Cheap way? All of your Gen3 peripheral items (mags, holsters, etc) will fit the Gen5 perfectly. There's no cost at all.
If you want to avoid taking a bath on selling your old Gen3 guns in a tight market, I can't help you.
But now's probably the time to sell them, since demand is higher with the current panic, than before.
I was talking about trying to off load my gen 3 guns for gen 5. I have a few with weak ejection that I with I could let go and get back more than $200 a piece. Heck, they might not fetch that at this point... I’ll just mill them chea- for a dot and make them dry fire guns and try to bust the breech face out of them. lol