All this chat with Mark about his Glocks made me want to talk about one of the most accurate pistols I own, my "Webb Custom" .40SW Glock 24C:

Yes, it is strictly a gamer gun. I actually have two Glock 24s, and the other one is completely stock. But the G24 and G17L were both made to be gamer guns. I mostly use this custom G24 for bowling pin shoots, but it is a crazy accurate .40SW that is a great all around shooter. It is such a big club that I have no holster for it, I strictly work off the bench and low ready when shooting it.

One of the first things I did was to get rid of the factory compensated barrel. The Glock ported G24C barrel works great, with 4 progressively larger cuts angled forward at the front top of the barrel. Unfortunately that meant the front sight fouled with each magazine! That aggravated me to no end, and since I am all grown up, I didn't need the porting anyway. I ordered a Bar Sto barrel and fitted it to my G24C.... and it was no longer compensated.

Sights are a personal thing. I like the factory Glock sights, but they are too chunky for me - no light around the front sight. I prefer a tall skinny front and a hogged out rear. Bo Mar is the undisputed premier rear sight, so I chose one for my G24C. Bo Mar offers rear sights that fit factory dovetails, so I opted for that because Glock slides are extremely hard. That means the rear sight hangs off the end, but only a Tommy Tactical wannabe operator youngster would be bothered by that! Remember the old extended front sights on 1911s that were bayonet-like? Anyway, the Bo Mar rear sight is a durable unit that extends the sight radius slightly.

After the initial sighting in, I have used CCI Blazer 180gr and never have needed to adjust it again. An excellent sight for target work and competition.

For the front sight I chose a Dawson Precision fiber optic .110" blade.

It gives me plenty of light around the sight picture and is fast on pins.

When shooting pins you are on the clock, and at my matches there will be at least one reload because you may only have 10 rounds in the magazine. Our matches generally run sixteen pins, so hopefully that is one reload... I have been known to occasionally need a third magazine. So I have a mag funnel on the gun, and extented base pad floorplates on my mags, allowing for the smoothest reloads without fumbling.

.40SW is a good choice for pins, because with my 180gr Blazer ammo I have a fast, heavy, flat nosed bullet for knocking the pins off the rack or table.

A big gripe for most folks against the Glock is the trigger. Personally I find the trigger to be excellent for action shooting, but everyone is different. I have never loved the plastic trigger and safety lever arrangement Glock uses... it works great but the feel is nothing like your average match gun! I cleaned up the moving parts in the action, but still wanted to try for a better trigger pull and feel. I ended up using a factory trigger bar, but installed an aluminum trigger "shoe" and safety lever in place of the plastic parts. Along with my action job, this makes the trigger pull feel completely different.

The trigger is radiused, smooth, and has a wider, more rounded safety lever that you do not feel but still acts as a trigger block.

The top end of the gun is high speed. Besides the sights and the fitted Bar Sto, the G24C ("C" for custom!) has Wolff FPB, trigger and striker springs, and the FPB and striker are titanium nitride.

The captured recoil spring assembly is made of a solid stainless steel guiderod and flat wound recoil spring from ISMI, and a polymer buffer at the front. All of the recoil assembly helps slow the slide speed for better tracking of the front sight in recoil.

Oh, I know - the pictures of the gun show how filthy it is. My Glocks are almost never clean. They get shot frequently, and work dirty, and.... I am lazy! I would rather shoot than clean. 

Sure Elmer, this gun is an ugly pig, and about as untraditional as a pistol can be. But while it is ugly, the groups on my target sure are pretty.