![]() ![]() Section 8: Handguns Subject: custom Glock 24 Msg# 533442
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The magwell is held in place by a very clever wedge arrangement -- you stick the well onto the bottom of the gun, and a wedge fits into the backstrap channel. You turn an allen screw on the bottom, and the wedge bears against the channel, "expanding" such that it locks in. Really cool, because most magwells are metal and a cheap looking screw goes through the backstrap. I prefer a dot or something on the front sight and a plain black serrated rear - no lines, no dots. As to the airy sight picture, I prefer that for most pistols, but that is just my eyes, I don't claim that is best. For a pin gun, you really want fast sights, and the skinny front and open rear allows me to see more of what is going on. IOW, I see more of the targets and that extra space allows extra target information to be seen, which makes it a faster setup. Remember, in a pin match I may have 5 or 6 hostage pins, that provide me only a 1" by 1" target area of the head of the pin that will reliably drop the pin with authority. The narrow front gets me on the head of a pin, where a standard Glock front sight will be 4 or 5 times wider than the head of the pin in my sight picture! The hogged out rear allows me to see the whole pin and the rack, and the pin jump as it is hit. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: That is really a kind of cool gun. Totally dedicated to one job. I have seen it in person but at the time there were a few of us and I didn't really get to look at it carefully and I don't believe I shot it. I may have shot it before you finished customizing it. I recall shooting one of your tweaked Glocks with a Dawson front sight, but not one with the mag well. How does the mag well attach? As to the front sight, I think the narrow blade is good, but I almost prefer lots of air on a combat sight and a little less air on a target sight. I think this has to be a personal decision though, as one needs to know how they "see" their sights. For example, I just naturally align sights with vertical inserts better than ones with horizontal inserts (two dots rather than three), but others are just the opposite. I feel like I get more precision with less air around the front sight but I haven't done enough shooting with an arrangement like your Glock 24K (kustom!) to know for sure. One other aspect of the narrow front sight is that you end up with a narrow light pipe. The red doesn't work too well for me, I think I could see green better. BTW, folks, Jerry wasn't kidding about the ported barrel on these--I have a stock version and I would have to clean the front sight non-stop because it fouled so badly. |