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Glock 17 Gen 5 Range Report

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#1 ·
I finally made it to the range with my 17.5 which functioned flawlessly and really like it.
One of my objectives was to ops check my 6 new 10 round neutered glock mags (Three are for my 17 and the other three are for my 19) All 6 worked fine. (only need them because I'm about to be stationed back in Cali.

I shot 275 rounds through the 17.5 and 50 through my 19.4

Pros:
-I really like the new trigger
-I think I like the feel of the lack of finger grooves
-My groupings are better than the 17.3s that I've shot in the past and were slightly better than my groupings with my 19
-As expected, cycled everything that I fed her including a 50 round box of my carry load.

Cons:
-I was more comfortable firing fast follow-up shots with my 19 that I've trained with (understandable). I believe this is due to the 3 dot night sights that I have on my 19 but it could be the finger grooves??

Overall, I'm happy. Just need to spend more time with the 17 and decide what sights I want to put on her.
 
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#5 ·
No crooked sight syndrome?
 
#7 ·
We may be in the minority from reading all the complaints about the Gen 5, but I love my new 17. Have only shot 6 mags through it, but my accuracy was much improved over my g4 19.
I really like the no finger grooves and I wasn't sure I would, but its much better for me.
Nice to see a thread that isn't bashing the g5.
 
#9 ·
I like my G17.5 and shoot it well, but it takes ME a little while to get used to it again after shooting my Gen3 and 4's which I can interchange any of those glocks either 9mm, 40, .357sig and seem to shoot well when going between. Going back to the 17.5 I'm a bit off for the first 1/2 mag or so until I get back my "feel" or w/e you want to call it on the trigger. It's a great gun IMO, but the trigger for ME is just enough different(not bad) to make a bit of difference. For me that's a tiny negative, b/c one thing that led me to love glock was how modular the whole line was.. Not just in parts, but for ME in how I shoot those G3/4 glocks.
 
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