LuisToledo

It should fit. The beavertail does not extend past the bottom of the backstrap thanks to the Glock's steep grip angle. I haven't tried putting it in the box yet, but from staring at mine yesterday with the beavertail installed, I was thinking the same thing and if you draw a rectangle around the gun with the front sight and muzzle at an opposing corner from the butt of the gun, then the beavertail doesn't even come into play. I'd be more worried about the large backstrap because that actually does extend the length of the pistol.

Maybe the question should be restated as "where can I get a 1911 that runs as well as a glock for ~$500. I don't think that's possible, or rather that you have an even chance of buying a doorstop that will need another $500-1000 in gun smithing to get running well. I have a Colt Series 70 Gold Cup slide on a S70 SS frame that runs great, but it's hardly stock and well north of the price of a Glock. You're asking the equivalent of "find me a $600 AR-15 that is as reliable as an AK..."

Comp-tac has a 2 day production time right now on most holsters. I just got my paddle holster for the G34/4 in today. It took about a week to get. Their quality is top notch and their wicked fast.

This is a silly argument. There is nothing in the rules that governs armed spectators and trying to regulate guns that are hidden by enforcing rules on people you, by definition, don't know are armed, is silly. If the MD or range master doesn't want concealed firearms around that he/she doesn't know about, post signs prohibiting them. In most States, that makes it illegal to carry concealed on the premises. Concealed permit holders are notoriously law abiding, so you will either get compliance, or fewer spectators.

We had an RO almost do that two weeks ago. He started the turn going the wrong way and looked at us all before reversing his spin and continuing.

The ability of anyone, RSO, shooter or spectator to call a cease fire is an NRA safety rule. All NRA clubs and ranges are likely to have adopted it. Range safety rules always trump competition rulebooks. So there. Call the cease fire if you think something is dangerous and let the chips fall where they may. I wouldn't do it if I didn't see a dangerous situation though.

Sure, that covers competitors, and it makes sense. You don't want a competitor to be walking around with a loaded firearm while not competing. It's begging for a ND, and ROs should be able to immediately determine the condition of any firearm they see. However, a concealed firearms, legally carried by a non-competitor, is none of the RO's business. As long as it stays concealed. Once it's visible then there is potential for confusion among competitors, etc. My local club has a rule that if you come on property with a concealed handgun then it needs to stay concealed until you leave.

I'm curious why you don't use your L10 mags downloaded to 8 for IDPA?

I saw this last night after a lot of cajoling from the wife. I've got to admit, it was pretty good to watch while doing a trigger job on a new Glock I think the moral of that story is that crazy people are funny when they aren't beating he crap out of you.

There's a weekly Thursday night USPSA match at Markham Park in Sunrise, North of Miami. The club's website is sfpc.org

I had a Federal Hydrashock in .40 fail on me a few weeks ago. The case failed at the bottom and the whole back of the casing blew out in my Beretta 96. I needed pliers to extract the brass tube that was left in the chamber and my extractor was hosed. It was a factory load in nickel plated brass. A little old, maybe 20 years old, but that shouldn't make a difference. Anyone else had something like this happen with Federal factory ammo? I'm wondering how common this is.

What are my options if I don't like the texture on my Gen4 Glocks? Love the slimmer backstrap, but hate the pyramid checkering... It feels like little needles on my girly hands. It also doesn't provide much lateral grip, not compared to stippled Gen3's I've shot in the past.

Okay. It doesn't make sense to me, but I called Glock USA and spoke to their technical support. They say it's not a feature. They won't call it a malfunction either though. I'm starting to think that at one time it was a design feature, but it turned out to be too difficult for most people to use reliably, so they disowned it. But officially, it's just "something that happens of you hit the mag base hard enough." So it's what video gamers would call an Easter Egg...

I'm a new Glock owner. Not a new shooter, nor a new Glock shooter, but I recently decided to jump head first to the dark side with a new G34 and a G23, both gen 4. The first thing I did when I got them home was strip the factory oil and start the "seasoning" process with Froglube. Yesterday, I christened them at the range with 200 rounds each of various types. Namely, I shot a mixture of Wolf FMJ, Remington JHP (duty ammo), Blazer TMJ, some reloads for good measure. I only had about 1.5 hours, so the pistols got nice and hot. I think it was a good break in. One thing I got to do was a lot of slide stop reloads with various ammo varieties. I noticed that the reliability of the slide releasing when firmly seating a new magazine varied greatly depending on what type of ammunition was in the magazine as well as the angle the pistol was being held at. Oh, I'm left handed, in case you're wondering. The "feature" seemed to favor a high ready position with the pistol at about a 45 degree angle. Basically a standard, "tactical" reloading position with the weapon held high and in the "workspace" at eye level. Holding the pistol low and horizontal, or with the muzzle pointing down was less reliable. Ammo type had a great impact also. I found that using the Remington duty ammo in the G23 seemed to release the slide every time, usually on the first tap. The Blazer, aluminum case ammo was almost as reliable, but that may have been impacted by variations in my tilt of the pistol. The Wolf ammunition was much less reliable in the .40. I'm not exactly sure why, but I found myself going to a power stroke release much more often when loading the Wolf. I also had a lot of failures from weak primer strikes on the Wolf ammo and will not be shooting Wolf anymore until I install a stronger striker spring. The G34 was less particular with regards to releasing the slide automatically. The only "ammo" that would not release the slide was a partial mag with 5 A-Zoom snap caps. I think this is largely a question of mass. I read about this phenomenon of the slide releasing automatically in many places and seen it suggested that it's a malfunction, or something that happens with worn pistols, but the fact that I could make it happen reliably on two brand new pistols tells me that it's likely a design feature that just needs the right combination of technique and ammunition type to replicate. I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on this technique and individual insights. Does anyone know, from Glock, how this is supposed to work? Does anyone use it reliably? Also, assuming that the technique could be mastered to 99.99% reliability, do you think it would actually be faster than other techniques?

Thanks for the knowledge guys.

This is good stuff. I was reading the OP and thinking that for any position in space, there is only one angle of the gun that will put a bullet through the exact center of the A zone. So I will imagine a string from that point to the muzzle while holding the gun at an appropriate height and that's the position that your body needs to support the gun while pressing the trigger so as not to disturb that perfect alignment. The sights just help to refine that alignment. I'm going to take a few deep breaths and think about this during my next time behind the trigger.

I think I'm stuck in .40 if I want to shoot production. It's unfortunate, since it isn't a "conversion barrel". It's a stock 9mm barrel from a 92FS. If the frame were stamped 92 instead of 96 it would be kosher. Can anyone comment on whether his gun is even legal for IDPA?

My new G34 gen4 came with a set of beavertail backstraps. The new G23 I bought didn't though. I think it's only on full frame models currently.

The wrap around rubber ones with the molded finger grooves. I'm thinking about changing them out because they make the already fat grip even fatter. But somehow I've gotten used to them over the years despite my thoroughly average size hands. I have a gen 4 Glock 34 on the way which I can't wait to try out. I don't imagine I'll totally abandon my sexy Italian mistress for it though.

I have a Beretta 96 and want to start competing. It it totally stock except for some Hogue grips and a trigger job... oh, and the barrel from a 92. Its perfectly reliable as I've put thousands of rounds through it in this configuration and the failure rate is actually less than with the .40 barrel (extremely rare). I can even use the .40 and 9mm magazines interchangeably, although I'm not as confident shooting .40 from a 9mm magazine (that might be the source of the rare failures when shooting .40) Does this setup exclude me from IDPA SSP and IPSC Production classes? If it does then I'll gladly tart the pistol up for the more liberal divisions... Thanks.

Old thread, but I've been shooting a 92 barrel in my 96 for years with very good reliability. 9mm loads and chambers reliably out of the .40 magazines as well. The extractor will get a good enough purchase on the rim of a 9mm to work and accuracy is very good (at least better than I am.)