TGO David

Let me just say that I swap this slide onto my G45 as well, whenever I want 17-rds and a slightly larger grip. I mostly carry this as it looks here, though, since my G45 is also milled for an optic but includes a comp and larger light. This Gen5 Glock 19 is definitely more of an EDC for me and has been through three different slide/optics configurations since I've owned it. (^^ This is an older pic with a Night Fision rear sight. I didn't like it, so I swapped that out for a 10-8 Performance rear sight) What you're looking at is a setup that has worked very well for me. Specifics are: Gen 5 Glock Frame with mostly stock internals. Zev Pro Trigger with Zev "Minus" Connector. Curved trigger shoe version. Agency Arms Syndicate S2 Slide with Agency Optics System (AOS). Holosun HE509T-X2-GR Green Dot optic on AOS plate. Traditional "irons-behind" plate version. Night Fusion front sight with green outline Tritium dot. 10-8 Performance rear sight with solid-black configuration. Glock OEM Gen5 "Marksman" barrel. Streamlight TLR7A weapon light. LAS Concealment Saya 2.0 holster. Why this setup? The key component in this setup for me is the slide because of the Agency Optics System. For years now I have run slides cut specifically for the Triicon RMR footprint. But as other players, like Holosun, have entered the game and gotten to be really good at it, I have wanted an optics mounting system that was manufacturer-agnostic. The AOS setup fits that bill for me and is really strong and very proven under some abusive conditions thanks to folks like Aaron Cowan at Sage Dynamics. How does it perform? Really well. I've become a serious fan of the Holosun 509T because of its rugged design, reputation for reliability (again, Sage Dynamics) and fully enclosed emitter design. This is my first green dot version, though, and I have not yet decided if it is all that more advantageous than a red dot. I have two other 509Ts, both red dots, on other guns and I run them just fine. The green dot is supposedly faster to acquire visually, but I honestly cannot tell much of a difference. It may just be me, though. The gun itself performs as you'd expect. It is a Glock. The Marksman barrel is quite nice. The gun is capable of more accuracy than I am. Occasionally the planets align, I do my part somewhat perfectly, and it feels like we're both in the groove. Those are good times. ZOMG, your serial number is visible! Meh. I'm not that paranoid. The government knows I have some guns and I run a big-ass gun forum. I'm already on their list.

Also, I've used Custom Slide Work | DP Custom Works LLC many times now and have been SUPER thrilled with the result and turn-around. I used Primary Machine, another shop, once and ultimately wasn't pleased with the result.

I would encourage you to find someone who is willing to have the slide coating done again with nitride or heat-cured Cerekote no matter what you do. I have seen way too many slides ruined by rusting due to the optic cut merely cold-blued or finished with an air-cure coating of some sort. This isn't something to skimp on. It will affect the longevity of your gun as well as it's resale-value if it's done wrong.

I bet the construction codes are quite a bit different from the sake of earthquake tolerance alone. What other things have you noticed about the way houses are built here? In the last twelve months, three homes in my tiny little neighborhood of less than 30 homes were sold by their original occupants to Californian refugees.

Nice! I bet that $10 Luger has a story that none of us want to know.

The older I get, the more I understand and relate to Red Foreman.

Open-carry used to be the only way that regular civilians could carry a handgun in Kentucky. We had the ability to do that without a permit for as long as I can remember. Long before Kentucky started making the Concealed Deadly Weapon License a thing. Back in my late high-school and early college years, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I worked at one of the Wal-Mart stores in my hometown. We had an old farmer who would come into the store almost every weekend with a chromed 8-inch revolver of some sort strapped to his leg in a legit cowboy leather holster. Being a kid who grew up in a police and military family and who hunted often, I was enamored by firearms, so this guy's heater never bothered me. But it sure drew some attention from everyone else. The way he was eyeballed throughout the store by our store's management and other customers made an impression on me. It made me adverse to that sort of attention and made me appreciate the concealed aspect of the CDWL once Kentucky started issuing them.

FFS.

I don't think y'all would know what to do if you ever got hold of some of that Glock lipstick.

The length actually helps quite a bit. This video explains why.

No one wants to see that. But a more relevant comparison would be a tricked-out custom M&P. Get out your turd polish!

I should really read more carefully. I would have seen that you solved it.

I'm still searching but I did find this on YouTube. The fix is to take out the optic screw on the ejection port side and file down the length of it slighty.

Apparently folks are having to shorten the optics mounting screws provided by Holosun so that they don't impact the extractor assembly. I saw this mentioned elsewhere recently, and I don't recall where it was. Probably Facebook or Reddit. I'll see if I can find more info.

I hate to bust on you, but we have emailed and even made public posts about the fact that new members with less than 10-posts and less than 10-days in the saddle on TGO cannot send a PM. That guy is doing what we've required him to do.

Let's just agree that a lot of you replying in this thread aren't the customer demographic that will spend the money to customize a Glock. Let's also agree that the people who do that are no different than the people who spend money to customize a 1911.

Got to love utilitarian simplicity.

I don't carry a 1911 anymore. If I am carrying something like that, it is a 9mm 2011 and definitely concealed.

I say this as a 1911 fan with more than a few of them: There's no good replacement for low round count and slow, heavy rounds except for maybe a slingshot.

Saw this on Battlecock Tactical's social media. https://www.facebook.com/BattleCockTactical/ For the uninitiated, Battlecock is one of the best "plastic surgeons" there is. He consistently cranks out amazing Glocks (and others), all modified by hand.

Yeah, that really bears pointing out. In this case, time AND space means money. If you can't subdivide the space into lanes that allow you to safely pack more people in it (like most shooting ranges) and charge each of them less per hour, then you're left charging one person more per hour. Like you, I have no dog in that hunt but I can understand the math from a business perspective.

Very true. Somewhat related to that, I’ve often wondered why so many people criticize non-Glock handguns for not having a trigger that feels “Glock-like”, and yet so many Glock aficionados (myself included) end up changing their Glock triggers for aftermarket anyway! I’m pretty confident in saying that what most people love about the Glock trigger is the positive tactile reset. That’s the one part that they normally do NOT want an aftermarket trigger to monkey with, except for maybe shortening the length of travel. You’d think that if the Glock trigger was all that it is celebrated as being, we’d all leave it alone.

Done and I’ve issued you a full refund of your Benefactor membership. Don’t pick a fight and then wonder why the other guy doesn’t have a sense of humor about it.

They've always just worked for me. I love the reliability, simplicity and aftermarket support of my Glocks... but the ergonomics of the M&P work better for me than the Glock ever has. I have read some reports, on the Internet of course, of people saying that the accuracy of the first-generation 9mm M&P was trash. Maybe it was? We have a 9mm "M1.0" and it seems to do OK for us, but the bulk of my first-gen M&P shooting is .40SW and those guns do just fine. I realize also that S&W switched the twist-rate of the M2.0 barrels to make them more accurate, and even the Internet seems to be happy with the results. I haven't seen any reports that say that the accuracy is still garbage with the M2.0. At worst, I think that the most disparaging thing that can be said about the M&P is that the trigger doesn't feel like that of a Glock. Um, OK. A lot of guns have triggers that don't feel like a Glock because they aren't a Glock either. I also think that people who ride the reset of a Glock while taking slow deliberate shots at the range only notice the reset because they are taking slow deliberate shots. They're playing trigger-finger pocket-pool. If you run a Glock or an M&P or a Sig P320 or a Walther PDP or any other gun at "real speed" or in a "real scenario" you probably aren't going to notice the reset at all. Just my guess. Like you, I haven't *HAD* to improve m M&Ps. Even my most pimped-out M&P has only had the slide milled and re-finished, so that I can run an optic on it. Everything else about the gun is pretty much stock. You and I are doing something wrong, I guess.

You can buy two of them for the price of a VP9 too!