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The stock glock barrel has a much looser chamber. It feeds just about all ammo, including fat ammo. A match barrel like a kkm, or barsto has a tight chamber. If you reload your own ammo you'll need to case guage/chamber check your ammo, I also recommend a Lee factory crimp die. If you run a match chamber and have a bunch of fat rounds mixed in your ammo you'll have a pretty disapointing match. If you shoot only factory ammo you can disregard the above.

The Glock is plenty acurrate as is. Changing the barrel will be marginal. I would recommend changing the sights and trigger. Charlie Vanek aka Gunner5 does the best Glock trigger job. Breaks at 1.5 lbs will all safties intact, lights all primers including small rifle. Dawson precision sights are the best drop in adjustables. You even get all the tools to install them yourself, though I would not use the rear sight punch they include.

Charlie has a secret modification. I won't say what it is. It is not a easy modification to do, and there is a real possibility you would do it wrong. It does give you a 1.25 lbs trigger with factory parts (except springs).

It's all about the reset. You'll shoot faster and more accurately if you shoot from the reset. The pre-travel is there just as added protection if you do something stupid like pick up the gun off a table with your finger on the trigger. Incorperate shooting from the reset into your dryfire and range practice. After you dryfire hold the trigger back, then rack the slide back 1/4". Then let the trigger forward back to the reset. Dry fire as usual. At the range practice shooting and then holding the trigger back. Release the trigger back to reset, and fire the next shot.

Charlie if you recall I had that chipped striker. While it still light all primers I found that my primer hits looked deeper after I switched out to a new one. Chp5 could you possibly have a chipped striker?

Charlie Vaneks trigger job will light any primer including small rifle. While he does use a reduced power striker spring he also has a secret modification that greatly reduces the weight of the trigger (down to 1.5#'s) and changes the way the trigger feels. Ask anybody with charlies trigger, it lights all primers reliably. From my experience a reduced power striker spring alone will not cause significantly lighter strikes. A reduced power striker spring and a skeltonized striker will. If you go this route you will have to go to federal primers.

I've shot triggers from Custom Glock, Gunner5 and Tom Novak. I sent Gunner5 aka Charlie Vanek my money. Hands down the best glock trigger.

I shot a fellows usp and notice that the gun has a funny wobble in the recoil. The front sight goes up and flips side to side before falling back into the notch. I think that is due to the double recoil spring. I would recommend a IMSI 15# recoil spring.

Charlie has a secret modificiation. I will not say what it is because people would attempt to do it themselves. Some would be successful, others would ruin many many triggerbars until they got it right. It's not a easy mod to do, and it is his idea so he should benifit from it. Just drop the $$ you will not be disapointed.

The finger notches come off with no problem, I would be wary about removing material from the back strap. There are people who do grip reductions/modifications http://www.customarms.com/glock.htm that include adding material to compensate for material removed or reshaped. There are numerous instances on Glocktalk.com regarding grip modifiction.

I was reading how to check IF a glock could fire out of battery on glocktalk recently. Can't find the thread or remember the exact specifics. Something about checking where the primers on spent brass had been struck (should be fairly centered), and I believe something involving looking up the mag well with a flashlight. I'm sure Matt form CGR will be here shortly to straiten it out.

Sounds pretty dangerous! Your not running a cut or super lite recoil spring are you?

Dawson fiberoptic set, followed by sunken bomar rear with a dawson fiber front

Also check to make sure the wire nubbin from the slide stop is under the locking block pin.

I'm shooting reloads through a Glock 35 at 168 power factor. I'm very happy with my load. Another shooter recommended I water my load down to about 150 PF. The idea is that I can shoot 150 PF for practice and go back to 165PF a few weeks before a match. The lower PF will allow me to shoot faster and the POI will be very close so I won't need to adjust my sights. When I go back to major PF I will still have the speed. I admit this all sounds good, but is it realistic and practical?

The only basepad for large frame glocks that I'm aware are the ones from Taylor Freelance. It'll give your +4 for the G21 mag, and be 140mm in lenght. I do not think it will fit a ipsc box.

It's hard to say the value of the trade in. I assume the dealer will not go for a strait up trade. He'll probably ask for money in addition. This is of course depended on the 17 or 34 he had for trade. You'll have to be the judge of what's fair, but I would go for $100 aditional max for a 17, and $150 for the 34. If possible I would bring a cell phone and call in to Glock to check if the pistols your trading for is on the frame recall. Just to save some possible hassle down the road. Pretty much anything starting with "E" is on the recall. There are a number of exceptions.

Felt recoil is a funny. I think even if you had a machine to measure it, just the fact that people have different grips would change how a real person perceives it. Also there is the ammo and how the gun is set up. If you’re REALLY concerned about felt recoil then try different grips until you find one that works for you. If you’re not using the modern isosceles grip/stance that just about everyone else is using, start there. Second you can reload your own ammo and work up a load that works for your gun. Lastly you can add weight like heavy mag wells and guide rods to the gun. Newer (competitive) shooters generally concern themselves with felt recoil. When you become more proficient and work out issues with your grip and gun you learn that with practice any gun is manageable. That being said unless you have a hard time keeping your 1911/2011 running reliably, I'd stay with that. That way you won't have to relearn you index.

$175, plus shipping. Well worth the money. It is well documented that Charlie's trigger is the best

See I told you all the cool kids have the 35

Glock 35 is the way to go. Longer sight radius, and all the cool kids have em.

Instead of using the slide release, grab the slide overhand, pull the slide back and release. This will give you the "running start" you asked for. It also has the added benifit of duplicating the same movement you use in malfuntion drills (tap rack bang). Grabbing the slide overhand to slingshot it also used gross motor skills as opposed to the fine motor skill needed to work a slide release.

Lot of factors, but some factory winchester white box (I believe it was 165, it definately was not 180) just made power factory, 167 in my G35. The factory Winchester 180's made 175 power factor in the same gun.

There are two thing to look at. If the 18th and 19th round are difficult to get in the mag, like the follower is binding on something you need to slightly bevel the inside lip of the extension. I'm talking about the inside lip of the floorplate that fits into the mag extension housing. Second after you load the magazine give it a good rap on the bottom. This will loosen up any binding of the rounds in the magazine. I run my mags with a wolff extended lenght +10% power spring. I find it works better than the arrendondo spring. Second load the mag up to 19 round so you have that little extra spring. Like with any high cap you kind of have to tune them if they don't run reliable. Mark the individual magazines and keep track of which ones run flawless, and which ones are prone to jamming. Then fiddle with the problem mags till they run.

Charlies trigger helps me with weak hand only shooting, and precision long rang shots. I'm getting better hits with his trigger. Everyone raves about how light the trigger is, but trigger just feels better overall. It's not mushy like the stock trigger. Breaks realy smooth.