Details out on Glock 17M

[Hambo]

Might have been smarter to equip an early class at Quantico with the M, and let them live with it for some months, since apparently the only real danger they face, if the show is realistic, is a STD from a fellow recruit.

If the FBI hadn't gone co-ed and switched from .38 revolvers none of this would be happening.

I thought I'd try anachronistic misogyny instead of straight Glock hate.

[Totem Polar]

Regarding the trigger bar incorrect reinstallation, are people just not inserting the forward part of the cruciform into that little notch thing that the trigger spring is connected to?

That's the scuttlebutt.

[BCL]

That's the scuttlebutt.

Good to know, thanks. I'll avoid doing that incorrectly in the future.

[JHC]

I'd still buy one today if I could. But I suspect I'd be buying it for different reasons than most.

Me too. I know how easy they are to make right living a 45 min drive from the factory.

[ranger]

Me too. I know how easy they are to make right living a 45 min drive from the factory.

So nice to buy a used Glock and then head to Smyrna for a free "inspection" plus new night sights for $55 - almost worth the Atlanta traffic!

[JHC]

So nice to buy a used Glock and then head to Smyrna for a free "inspection" plus new night sights for $55 - almost worth the Atlanta traffic!

It's not even fair

Last time there the tech pressed me if I had any mags. Well yeah just these 5 beat to hell range mags of years abuse.

He takes them and explains later he had replaced/upgraded everything but the baseplates. New mag bodies too because they were so tore up.

Just sayin

[TCinVA]

BBI, the movie is called Color of Night, though it is heteroerotic rather than homoerotic. A character starts out the movie by fellating a revolver, which I find quite disturbing and off-putting by the way, then kills herself by jumping out of a high-rise window instead of with the gun, which kind of makes me feel like her fellating the gun is at least somewhat gratuitous. Anyway, her psychiatrist, portrayed by Bruce Willis, then loses his ability to see the color red, due to oh the horror of the sight of his patient's blood. Then blah blah blah there is various sex, murder, and a lot of unintentional hilarity. It has a truly all-star cast, with some of my most favorite actors: Bruce Willis, Jane March, Scott Bakula, Lance Henricksen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Reuben Blades, AND Brad Dourif. I probably forgot someone but you get the idea. It is a very amusing 2am-on-Cinemax flick from the mid-nineties. Go to the video store and rent it today. I guess if worst comes to worst I can mail you my DVD of it but it is probably available to you locally and that would be faster.

Fucking bravo, sir. Well done.

As to the serious stuff in this thread: Were new 17M specific holsters being used with the 17M pistols?

[Robinson]

So M stands for "scoff" now?

[BehindBlueI's]

So M stands for "scoff" now?

...Mockery?

[Rex G]

This has been an interesting read.

I am not surprised that this happened. I switched to the G22, for police duty carry, in 2002, and soon experienced the drama of Glock denying the obvious. The work-around of heavier magazine springs made my Glocks sufficiently trustworthy, but, yet again, I found myself wishing I had just grandfathered my .357 duty revolvers in 1997. (We standardized on .40, in specified pistols, in 1997.)

Notably, the problem was NOT just when using WMLs on the rail. One of my three G22 pistols was unreliable even without a WML in place, until I installed the heavier mag springs.

I switched to a P229 in 2004, for better accuracy. I do not, however, hate Glocks, and switched back to Glocks, though in 9mm this time, for personal-time carry in 2012, and for duty in 2015, when my chief approved the change, because .40 recoil, combined with the high SIG bore axis, was starting to torture my right wrist.

FWIW, the finger groove spacing of the Gen4 G19 is actually quite good for my hands, better than the G17, Gen3 or Gen4.

Anyway, I hope the problems with the M can be made right. The ambidextrous slide stop would be handy, to expedite left-handed administrative handling of the weapon.