(Hiatus is over? ish? Life’s a bit more sane and I’m going to try to get back into the blogging…)
I liked my first Glock 32 so much that I decided I’d really like to have a spare. Two is one and one is none, as they say. I also got word that the OD Glocks were being discontinued due to lack of demand. Well, hell. Why not?
Funshop ordered one in for me and dropped a set of Trijicons onto the slide. I popped in the extended slide stop and mag release. Then I ordered up a pile of spare mags and a few miscellaneous spare parts (recoil spring assemblies, trigger springs, a couple extractors…).
I now have a pair of near-identical carry guns. They both run like tops and shoot to the same point of aim. I slightly prefer the Trijicons on the OD gun over the Glock night sights on the black one; I can see more light on the sides of the front blade and the tritium dots are more sharply focused in low light. That said, the difference is small enough that the guns are functionally interchangeable.
The more I shoot them, the more I like this configuration. The G19/23/32 frame size is Glock’s “Goldilocks” model. Small enough to carry easily, big enough to shoot well, and notably comfortable in the hand. Slip it into a Summer Special 2 and the gun disappears under a T-shirt.
Now that I’ve shot up a few thousand rounds of it, I have some observations on the .357 SIG cartridge as well, but that’s another post…
Good Choice! I’ve a 1911 5″, currently, but have owned three Glocks, previously. My only ‘complaint’ was unlike blued-steel and walnut, they have no soul. And, you can’t go wrong with Uncle Miltie…
Hey, now that things are improving for you we should schedule that range trip to LGC in Brighton. We can try your new Glock and my M&P head to head.
Shoot me an e-mail and we’ll see how our schedules mesh. Looking forward to getting together.
Rob (Trebor)
Glad to hear things are more sane.
I’m looking forward to the .357 SIG post.
Will you swap out the Glock night sights for more Trijicons at some point, or is the difference small enough not to bother?
It’s not worth the $100 it’d cost me to change the sights… Maybe in a decade or so
I have and carry a G19 and I’m fond of the frame size as well. I kinda wonder what the G26 is good for, it seems too small to keep a good grip on it, but it’s not really small enough for a pocket gun since it’s still so blocky (probably dangerous too since the trigger wouldn’t be protected).