![]() ![]() Section 8: Handguns Subject: custom Glock 24 Msg# 533465
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Re: your magwell. How cool! I like the idea of one that doesn't marr or change the pistol! Please tell me the make of your magwell and where you got it? Do you need extended mag bases to work with it, as with many 1911 magwells? What I have learned form you is that one needs a different sight set-up for pins than for GSSF. No problemo! I should really set my 24C up for GSSF and paper punching with better sights and possibly a non-ported barrel, and make one of my other guns a pin gun. The second gen G22 would be a good candidate for that. The night sights are about shot anyway and I'm thinking of replacing them. I might do the slide myself with Brownell's Baking Laquer or Alumahyde II. (I don't know how the front sight is attached on mine, but it is a standard Glock night sight. I also don't know how one disposes of used tritium sights!) But I could remove the sights, or possibly have you do it, then refinish it, then add new sights. Why don't we live a little closer to each other? |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: 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. |