This Gen 5 G19 is now... 

Awesome!

Thanks, Ken!

I have always been taught to grab the sides of the mag, finger thumb squeeze. I teach the same way. Why use 1 finger in the front to strip a mag, 2 is better.

Gen 6 will probably bring back the finger grooves 😂

I still love that rifle.

Thanks!

General Steven D. Lee 5683 yeah they're both iconic.

General Steven D. Lee 5683 yep, both are outshined by 1911s.

General Steven D. Lee 5683 How can you compare the "Garbage Glock" to the Hi-Power

AFCA - World Bodybuilding Archive that’s why the Beretta 92 has been used in more police/military organizations worldwide than any other handgun. Used them for 11 years in the navy. They were beat to shit and heavy, we hated them but never had one fail apart from Beretta bite.

Nerdy Hustle yes.

No different than a side cutout and extended mag plate. Silly to make the most common thing you're going to do harder in exchange to make something nobody in the history of DGU has ever actually done easier.

TWANGnBANG I see your point. Good thing the Gen 3 and 4 are still in production for everyone who don't like the cutout. It doesnt bother me. Good luck!

Not a bad idea.

I carry 4 o’clock, but I’m not dogmatic about carry position.

Glock perfection, good one...

Gen 3s my favorite. But perfect? Not even close lol

newbie lol iPhones are different, technology in electronics grows much quicker than technology in Firearms. You can compare the iPhone 6 to the iPhone X and can tell the significant difference in speed and screen display. Glock, not so much.

jdawgg27 I meant by reliability and functionality. If glock would just go back to the single recoil spring and extractor from the gen 3 and put it in all the newer gens they would be the tits!

I totally agree with the “mag well” and front cut out on the G19 Gen5 being flat wrong. The G19x does not have it. They need to dump those two things and it would be an typical incremental Glock change with some slight improvements. Gen 6 maybe

Ever reload lying under a car while someone is shooting at you? I never have, but I don’t expect to be able to pull off a perfect “FBI finger index” under stress and odd positions. Designing a mag well that only works one way is idiotic.

Thanks!

J Tetlow seconded

I never needed convincing that I was going to eventually carry a 9mm. However, my G23 didn’t somehow instantly become a death trap because 9mm ammo got better.

Well, the sights always shot POA/POI when you aligned the outline of the entire front sight with the notch in the rear sight, but yes, if you just focused on the ball, you’d shoot high. Glock didn’t change the true sight picture, but they did lower the cut in the rear notch a bit.

Thanks for the report!

Absolutly! I dont post much but thanks for the channel and the time you put into it.

Crazy!

Same with the Gen 3 G17. It kinda pisses me off honestly lol because that's where rust is going to go but meh. I got Vickers stuff coming to replace it anyways.

Thanks, Christopher!

TWANGnBANG No problem, bud. You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy the rest of your night 🌃

SheepDog 392 I agree gen3 Glocks are nice remove the finger grooves it's hard to beat IMO.

Polymer 80 my dude

I’ve never seen using the slide stop as a slide release result in incomplete battery. I’ve seen even SF guys ride the slide on slingshot method under stress more than once.

TWANGnBANG The problem with using the slide stop to reload is not with battery issues, but with the fact that it doesn't always work. What I mean is, if the slide is not to the rear when you insert a new magazine for one of many reasons, you are going to try to use the slide stop, it won't do anything, and then you're going to tap rack to get the gun running. This also assumes you're even holding a gun you're familiar with. By always running the slide manually, you now have one trick that fixes everything but a double feed. Hit or insert mag, Run slide. You'll be reloading behind cover more than likely so the .1-.2 added to your reload won't matter. Also since you lose dexterity under stress, your numb fingers won't be fiddling with small objects. I recently took a pistol class where they setup various student and instructor guns with unknown simulated malfunctions. I grabbed every gun, tried to shoot, tap racked, and shot. If I needed to reload one I wasn't feeling for a slide stop lever on an alien gun. Just hit the thing and pull the thing. I was getting high fived afterwards as if I just set a world record when I went through 5 different guns without issue. If our immediate action involves running the slide manually, why not make that instinctual response the answer everytime? If we're playing gun games, time matters more than reliability. Those guys memorizing their course of action before they shoot a stage. There's little stress and no surprises. In a gunfight we don't have that luxury so we must bomb proof our practices. As far as riding the slide, that's just training issues. It's no surprise that you saw military guys do it. We should try to rip the slide off the back of the gun every time.

TWANGnBANG Oh sorry. Also, slingshot method is the mark if an amateur. We come over the top with our support hand and palm it and then rip it rearward with great force. And for some people like myself, you have to break your grip on guns to hit the slide stop, which means regripping as you push the gun back out. Your hands appear similar in size to mine. Try and get a solid strong one hand grip on a 19 and then see if you can reach the slide stop. You also have to break your grip to hit the mag release but you have more time to regrip at that point.

The reason you don't need to have one way to release the slide for every manipulation you do is because you don't perform learned actions step by step. It's like playing a riff you know well on a guitar: you don't play one note then the next then the next- you just play the riff from start to finish without even thinking about each note. Same with a reload or a remedial drill or whatever. We learn the set steps in doing the action, then practice the heck out of them with lots of repetition until a reload is no longer a series of distinct steps- it's just one action from start to finish. I should've said "over the top" instead of slingshot, yes. I've seen guys ride the slide doing over the top reloads. Many times. I've never, ever seen anyone have a malfunction due to using the slide stop on a reload, yet it is clearly faster every time. You are picking a slower AND LESS RELIABLE method of performing the most likely action you're going to need to do in an extended gunfight in favor of keeping one step the same across different series of actions. If you can't reach the slide stop with your trigger hand without adjusting your grip, you hit it with the thumb of your support hand after seating the mag.

TWANGnBANG I agree we should learn one riff. Your method however, requires you to figure out which of your several riffs must be played given your situation, while bullets are being directed towards you. It's impossible to ride the slide forward if you try to rip the slide off the gun. I've been doing it for 10 years and have never once ridden the slide forward. My hands energy is moving rearward until its grip is broken by the slide stopping. You'd literally have to super glue my hand to the slide to keep it on the slide and returning with it. It is undoubtedly a more reliable method of reloading in and of itself and even more so when you consider the mental ramifications of having to assess and play multiple riffs depending on your situation when sometimes using a slide stop and other times not. If we disagree that is fine but I highly recommend you try running the slide. Based on your concerns of riding the slide I know you haven't or perhaps, just not correctly. It's a non-issue and the practice comes with mental reliability benefits galore.

Same here, bud. I enjoy the new Gen5, but I've always loved Glock, even though I dislike a lot of their sights, and other aesthetics. They're very reliable. I have owned my Glock 16 since 2001 and I've only had it jam a handful of times, but that was after purposely putting it through stress tests of more than 300 rds. without a single cleaning of the gun in the same day.

l x s c x r o l EwO That's disgusting... Why would you say something like that? I'm just shocked...

Joe Sowards then stop puttting your finger in the barre

Hmmm

Joe Sowards Do you mean finish wear on the barrel or the rifling? If you mean the finish I'm thinking it's a tighter barrel to slide fit, the barrel in my gen 5 fits the slide like it was cut out of the same block of steel, getting more finish wear on the barrel than I had on my g23 but I like it :) plus tighter fit = better accuracy so win win for me