Once my transfer goes through, hopefully tomorrow, Glock 19X will be mine! Will have to figure out if I want to remove the little mag-well toe and fit the Agency Arms Gen4 mag-well I have sitting around...
Been out of the Glock game for a long time. Do the Glock23 .40 cal mags fit the G19X ?
Extra rounds are always welcomed
No they do not as the G19X is a G17 frame with G19 slide/barrel
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That said, Glock 22 magazines will work this way. Unreliably and not advised... But they do sometimes work.
I don't want to be a d*ck either but it is a slide release on the Glock, it was designed to be used as a slide release, there is no other use for it. The Gen 5 release is a little larger and a lot more useful. Bob Vogel, a world champion IPSC Production and IDPA shooter, uses the slide release on his Glock 17/34's in competition because hitting the slide release is faster and he says so in his videos. Doesn't look near as tacticool as the sling shot method but is is faster. Your Universe is not as large as you think.
For the doomsday zombie crowd faster might mean you live another day.
Take Care
Bob
Glock Armorer here, it's a slide stop, not a slide release.
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We were specifically told at our Glock Armorers course that it was designed as a slide stop, and not a release. Hence the small form factor of the original slide stop component. The competition extended "slide release" part was designed after the fact due to demand. Nothing will change the fact that using the slide stop as a slide release WILL eventually induce wear on either the slide or the slide stop, causing the functionality to be lost over time. Then parts need to get replaced.
However, it's a moot point. The amount of use required to destroy the functionality of the parts is so high that you'd have to literally use the slide stop as a release every single time you let the slide go... And probably shoot 50,000 rounds or more through the firearm before it even became an issue. Not something that most people will ever need to worry about.
So go ahead and do whatever you train for. Personally, I power stroke.
Now to me, this "Commander" Glock is, the same as Colt, backwards.
The original commander was designed to be a conceal carry 1911. They shortened the slide and left the frame/grip the original length. Now when you conceal carry any pistol, it is the grip that patterns. The idea of concealed carry is to not show the pistol. The slide/barrel can be longer as that is the portion that goes down the pants, with the grip protruding. The Commander should have had a long slide with a short grip to aid in concealment.
Same as this new Glock. The idea or role this pistol is supposed to have or does have, more in the U.S. than Canada, is one of a concealed firearm a little larger than the sub-compact models. However, they did this backwards as well.
If the use is just as a shooter, as it is up here and yes indeed more gripable area is a plus, then why shorten your slide/barrel/sight radius length? Those measures do nothing to enhance your shooting platform.
Granted, I understand something new/different/fun, and there is nothing wrong with that. I'm just thinking the 10X larger market may have missed the intended users.
Sort of, "what's the point"?
I shared the same concern when purchasing mine and debating between a Glock 17 Gen5 or the 19X. I settled on the 19X because it's still a Gen5 gun essentially but also a lot more unique. Although I agree with your assessment on the length of the grip playing a large part in concealability, in Canada it's a moot point. Unless you're a
very special snowflake you aren't conceal carrying here, 99.9% of civilians will only conceal carry a firearm here legally during an IDPA tournament on a range. Technically you're supposed to be as incognito as possible during these stages, but you don't normally get dinged for printing as much as you would at something like an IDPA tournament in the USA. People who run IDPA up here are smart enough to realize that expecting everything to invest in a completely proper conceal carry setup in Canada is silly.
As for the reduced sight radius/barrel/slide stuff... The sight radius reduction is something like 0.25 - 0.5 inches. If this actually makes a difference for anyone in reality, they must be a far FAR better shot with a pistol than I am. In my opinion though, this isn't going to realize itself in any kind of real world benchmark with an average shooter. Most people don't have consistent enough sight alignment and trigger control on their best day for this to influence the outcome of any accuracy comparisons.
Barrel is extended in Canada, so 107mm vs the 114mm (?) or so on a Glock 17. Again, negligible. It's also the "marksman barrel". In the US with the proper length shorter barrel, again pretty negligible in reality I think.
Shorter slide, I'm all for it. Lighter weight, better recoil control and snappier theoretically. Might be a little harder on the components but it's a Glock we're talking about here. If you clean it and replace the recoil spring assembly when required, it'll last far beyond the lifetime of the rifling in the barrel!
Since this firearm was designed for the US Army trial, I think they simply shortened the slide and barrel in order to save weight on the overall platform. Not really as much for the concealability factor as much as everyone thinks. The US military doesn't do a whole lot of conceal carry operations... And the guys that do can pretty much pick out whatever pistols they want to use anyway.
