Swap out the barrel on your G19 with a training barrel?
https://cpwsa.com/product/glock-inst...safety-barrel/
Swap out the barrel on your G19 with a training barrel?
https://cpwsa.com/product/glock-inst...safety-barrel/
I didn't know that was available. This is my vote now.
Should be much easier to show your wife that even though it is a real gun, it isn't capable of firing with this installed and your real barrel stored elsewhere than it would with the firing pin modification.
Edit: They have one less G19 barrel in orange now. $10 for shipping isn't cool though.
I would suggest getting all the guns and accessories out of the house and stored at a distant place. Nothing to do with the guns should be present.
Put a lock on the door to your room that only you and your girlfriend have and carry the keys with you, not stored in the house. Keep the door locked when you or she are not present.
You will probably need to forgo dry fire for the present.
We are living in perilous times. Be safe.
Thank you for confirming my suspicions with using an airsoft replica. I think you have the pro/teacher model of the SIRT and I'm not sure if that is worth around $400, IIRC. Airsoft might be fun for its own sake, but I guess it'll have limited benefit over my other options.
I completely agree with your last sentence! This is definitely not ideal, but I enjoy dry practice/occasional comps as its own thing. Despite the wanting to get better, I am also a big fan of the journey, and this could all be enough for me.
I really appreciate your input as you have experience and present constructive points -- I posted this on reddit and a lot of it read as just criticism. For what I bolded: this is the one thing that actually bothers me the most. I can put up with not making ideal progress, but the defense part is what bothers me, too. This event actually occurred yesterday and my partner is quite emotionally stressed, so I haven't brought that up yet. I plan to at a better time. For what I put in blue: No, the threat turned out to be a "prank" with other boys he was with over the weekend. Still serious but according to the local PD he is not the one who made it, but it was with his phone and he was present -- I still judge on that. The going in our room was one time. By other situations specifically, I mean he has boxed other kids (with consent and gloves, but still) in a public park, had to go to court with mom for shooting a BB gun in a public park with another kid. He is pretty much a straight A student and does take the "advanced" classes, but his circle of friends and mental health could use improvement, IMHO. Thank you for your thoughts!
I've thought about this, but I think it might be too "similar" to a gun for my girlfriend. Up until this point she has been fine with me shooting and has even gone with me a few times, but doesn't even know how to field strip a glock and I'm not sure she would understand this. I could maybe bring it up at a later date.
I appreciate your experience using a blue gun daily. To clarify, do you do pseudo trigger pulls with it? I feel like it might be close enough to the idea of pulling on a dead trigger (e.g., What Stoeger talks about), but a bit different. For starters, the plastic is further up the trigger guard than a dead trigger would be on an actual glock.
I actually haven't thought about that. I've seen the UTM conversion, but I'm concerned that is too "similar" to a gun for her. I answered similarly/more detail to dontshakepandas. I get it is not logical for the likelihood that teens would be able to be able to access the correct parts to make it able to fire ammunition.
This seems to be the consensus for SIRTs. I knew the laser would not be helpful and was hoping I could work around that if it had a realistic trigger.
I get it. As I said above, the process of dry practice and occasional matches is enough to keep me going even if it's not ideal. According to her, she thinks he doesn't even know I have firearms as I've kept it secret in terms of transport/dry practice/etc. I'm hoping this isn't long term. I'll look into the 17T and see if I could obtain one. If not, I guess I'll use the blue gun. Now, I just need to figure out how to mount my RDS.
As an aside, has anyone had experience with Ace XR? I've heard mixed things.
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I have a wetech Glock gen5 mos. The weight is pretty close the trigger isn’t bad and it’s very close size wise (the slide is a tad thicker and doesn’t fit in all holsters) I mostly use it with a piece of cardboard (just like a normal Glock so I can actuate the trigger). It has the mos plates and I added a fake rmr on it. It gets used a lot and I haven’t had any issues. I have broken a few of the fake rmr though.
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I suggest a SIRT pistol with Laserx training software. The software will use the camera on your phone or iPad to record the timing and placement of your shots on a “target” allowing you to focus completely on the sights and target without looking for the laser. Having this feedback is helpful.
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