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11/28/2022 12:40:07 PM

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Section 8: Handguns
Subject: Glock 23 Msg# 1178311

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TJ Parmele

Joined 6/1/2005

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Mark Freburg (Read) Forum Manager

Joined 4/3/2000

Haha! Parts terminology gets me again.
Yes, Mark is correct and I kept my G19 within the OEM parts that Glock offers in part because of liability, but in part due to cost. These parts, with the exception of the Trijicon Night Sights, are fairly inexpensive and easy to install. The sights are even easy to swap out with the pusher.

For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where:
Regarding my Gen 2 Glock--I bought it from Kim, because being the Glock junkie he is, he had to have the new and improved Gen 3 G22.

But before that, he shot the snot out of the Gen 2 I bought. Then I shot the snot out of it--so it did have a lot of rounds through it. Probably not as many as my 1982 Colt Mark IV Series 70, though, which hasn't broken a "locking block." Wink

Okay, please note the following image, guys, especially those of you not especially Glock savvy. I was talking about a Glock locking block, while TJ was talking about a slide lock lever--two different parts. (TJ calls it the takedown latch but the part name is actually slide lock lever--see diagram below) Just so we're all on the same page, I scanned this from my Ptooma book:

Image below from Mark Freburg - Image Title: Glock Frame Uploaded: 11/23/2022
Image Info: Glock Gen 3 frame disassembled. Image from the Ptooma book The Complete Glock Reference Guide.

I have had a slide lock lever spring fail, on my old police trade-in, Gen 2 Glock 22. Slide never went too far forward in shooting that I recall, however.

For what it's worth, the failure on my Glock 23 was that one of the legs broke right off the locking block.

I didn't make a lot of changes to my Glocks either--actually very much the same as you. I found that Glock made a metal version of their plastic OEM sight, so I replaced my plastic sights with metal OEM sights--same ball in bucket style. I replaced any triggers with striated surfaces with smooth ones--also OEM. I replaced the OEM trigger spring with a Glock NY1 spring and the OEM connector with an OEM minus connector. As you know this gives the the trigger a much crisper feel without the notorious SPROING of the factory triger set up. All this sounds pretty familiar, eh? Wink

Today I only have that originalGen 2 police trade-in G22. The only difference from the way I set up my self-defense Glocks was that I used the lighter OEM trigger assembly used for the G34/G35 pistols, giving it a lighter, target shooter's trigger. Oh, and since this photo below, I dropped in a Lone Wolf 9mm, conventionally-rifled barrel, which works perfectly. It's now a really nice Glock. For a Glock:

Image below from Mark Freburg - Image Title: Glock 22 Uploaded: undefined
Image Info: My Gen 2 Glock 22. A police trade-in, I have refinished the slide in Brownell's Alumu-Hyde II, and replaced the sights with all-black target sights that allow huge amounts of daylight on both sides of the sight. These were made by Ameriglo. I've changed the internals with Glock OEM parts to give it the same trigger pull as a Glock 34 or 35.

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