I purchased a brand new AA glock 17/22 kit for my glock 34. The fit and finish is very nice and the functionality is almost identical.
The slide came packaged in a very neat plastic tupperware box with basic cleaning accessories, 1 magazine. That points out this kits weakness. With a 450+ dollar price tag, it fails to provide 2 magazines. The whole reason why folks buy this kit is to improve their trigger time as well as familiarity with the firearm. I had to dish out another 35 bucks for a second mag to keep it reasonable with reload times.
The mags are relatively easy to load and are nowhere near the pain in the arse the glock 10 rounders are. The 10th round loads almost as easy as the 1st.
The mags fit very well within my gen 3 receiver and functioned flawlesly. They drop free as well as the stock glock mags would.
The slide is slightly lighter than the glock slide. The sights on the slide look identical to my glock 34, with front the traditional glock plastic front post with the white dot. The front sight is also installe identical to the stock sight, with the tiny screw accessible from inside of the slide. The rear sights are adjustable for windage and elevation.
Interestingly, the kit clearly states "DO NOT DRY FIRE THIS KIT, ONLY DRY FIRE WHEN NECESSARY TO REMOVE THE SLIDE". I guess it holds true to the rimfire striker issue and damage that can be caused due to its design.
The kit utilizes all the glock 3 safety features, however, being a non stock part, i would not trust it to drop on the ground. Regardless, if basic firearm safety rules are followed, most folks would be ok.
Now to the interesting part.
The kit asks to fire only high velocity 40 grain solid or hp rounds. It recommends mainly cci mini mags and discourages against the use of remington .22 thunderbolts and any federal .22 ammo.
So i tested this kinda backwords. I Got federal .22 high velocity 40 grain with bare lead projectiles, remington.22 thunderbolts and some canadian made OLD high velocity .22 ammo which name i dont even recall.
I tested 50 rounds out of each batch.
Suprisingly the thunderbolts fired fantastically. Only one double feed.
The federal ammo had MAJOR extraction issues. About every 2nd round failed to extract. I found it fired the best with a super stiff wrist, but i never made it thru a mag without at least 3 fte's.
The canadian made ammo lasted about 1 mag. I discarded the rest after 2 casings split and failed to eject.
I could not locate any .22 cci mini mags at my range. and that test will be next. Overall, i am impressed, even with the crappy ammo. When i finally find ammo this kit likes, i will post on accuracy. So far, even with the thunderbolts, it was very accurate and a pleasure to shoot.
The slide came packaged in a very neat plastic tupperware box with basic cleaning accessories, 1 magazine. That points out this kits weakness. With a 450+ dollar price tag, it fails to provide 2 magazines. The whole reason why folks buy this kit is to improve their trigger time as well as familiarity with the firearm. I had to dish out another 35 bucks for a second mag to keep it reasonable with reload times.
The mags are relatively easy to load and are nowhere near the pain in the arse the glock 10 rounders are. The 10th round loads almost as easy as the 1st.
The mags fit very well within my gen 3 receiver and functioned flawlesly. They drop free as well as the stock glock mags would.
The slide is slightly lighter than the glock slide. The sights on the slide look identical to my glock 34, with front the traditional glock plastic front post with the white dot. The front sight is also installe identical to the stock sight, with the tiny screw accessible from inside of the slide. The rear sights are adjustable for windage and elevation.
Interestingly, the kit clearly states "DO NOT DRY FIRE THIS KIT, ONLY DRY FIRE WHEN NECESSARY TO REMOVE THE SLIDE". I guess it holds true to the rimfire striker issue and damage that can be caused due to its design.
The kit utilizes all the glock 3 safety features, however, being a non stock part, i would not trust it to drop on the ground. Regardless, if basic firearm safety rules are followed, most folks would be ok.
Now to the interesting part.
The kit asks to fire only high velocity 40 grain solid or hp rounds. It recommends mainly cci mini mags and discourages against the use of remington .22 thunderbolts and any federal .22 ammo.
So i tested this kinda backwords. I Got federal .22 high velocity 40 grain with bare lead projectiles, remington.22 thunderbolts and some canadian made OLD high velocity .22 ammo which name i dont even recall.
I tested 50 rounds out of each batch.
Suprisingly the thunderbolts fired fantastically. Only one double feed.
The federal ammo had MAJOR extraction issues. About every 2nd round failed to extract. I found it fired the best with a super stiff wrist, but i never made it thru a mag without at least 3 fte's.
The canadian made ammo lasted about 1 mag. I discarded the rest after 2 casings split and failed to eject.
I could not locate any .22 cci mini mags at my range. and that test will be next. Overall, i am impressed, even with the crappy ammo. When i finally find ammo this kit likes, i will post on accuracy. So far, even with the thunderbolts, it was very accurate and a pleasure to shoot.
it will go about 300-350 before it needs a scrub of the chamber.
