[PDenny]

My first Glock a number of years ago was a Glock 19, which I ended up selling. I've always regretted it, and after reading all the raving reviews of the Dagger, I decided to buy one. Mine had a gritty trigger though, so I disassembled it and buffed the associated parts, smoothing it out. It came apart and reassembled easily, but roll pins require a hammer and properly sized punch. There were several things about the Dagger that I didn't really like though, and I ended up taking it to my local gun store and trading it for a gen 5 Glock 19. I wasted some money, but I'm very happy!

 

[arndog123]

I bought one to use as a suppressor host. Loved it enough to buy a second one with a sniper green slide. The trigger wasn’t that great on both so like most of my Glocks I replaced it with an Apex trigger.

 

[Matt VDW]

It’s an old Marine thing. We clean our weapons, whether they are new or not. Does a couple of things; removes any debris/ oil from the manufacturing process, and you become familiar the working parts of your weapon.

Field stripping, yes; detail stripping, no. If any of my drill instructors had caught me disassembling the lower receiver of my M16A2 there would have been hell to pay.

 

[Frank Bama]

Field stripping, yes; detail stripping, no. If any of my drill instructors had caught me disassembling the lower receiver of my M16A2 there would have been hell to pay.

I graduated from Boot Camp a long time ago 😎

 

[larry1096]

Field stripping, yes; detail stripping, no. If any of my drill instructors had caught me disassembling the lower receiver of my M16A2 there would have been hell to pay.

We were taught to detail-strip our 1911's in the Army....


Larry

 

[cciman]

We were taught to detail-strip our 1911's in the Army....

Are you sure about "detail" stripping the 1911 in the Army? That would would be the cause for a lot of 1911's not working properly.

 

[wickedbeernut]

But were you able to get the pins back in?

 

[capnjim01]

Would any of you us one as a back up gun?

 

[45caldan]

Would any of you us one as a back up gun?

I would.
Even with the trigger pin walks on me (the only problem I’ve had) I could defend myself with it.
The pin walks just a few millimeters in a mag dump.
Not enough to cause a problem in a SD situation.

 

[cciman]

I would.
Even with the trigger pin walks on me (the only problem I’ve had) I could defend myself with it.
The pin walks just a few millimeters in a mag dump.
Not enough to cause a problem in a SD situation.

The trigger pin movement should be limited by the spring on the slide stop lever resting inside the groove on the pin.

 

[Matt VDW]

Today I fired the complete Dagger lower I received last week. (At $99 with free shipping it was hard to resist.)

The top half came from a stock Glock 19.3, all stock except for the sights. Mags used were a mix of Gen 3, Gen 5 and Magpul. Ammo was Federal 147 gr Syntech and Magtech 115 gr FMJ.

And... it shot a lot like a Glock 19. Everything worked correctly. I had no issues with the trigger and no pins moved far enough to notice. The only flaw I noticed was that the magazine release was a little stiff. Well, I did notice that the sights I installed twenty years ago aren't as visible as they once were but that isn't PSA's fault.

Next week I'll be getting a Dagger slide to put on the frame and I'll test the combination, too.

 

[larry1096]

Are you sure about "detail" stripping the 1911 in the Army? That would would be the cause for a lot of 1911's not working properly.

Yep. As a tanker, that and the M3A1 were our primary weapons, so perhaps it was different for folks issued long guns?

As far as them not working...the ones we had essentially fell apart and fell back together. They could rattle laying on a table.

Larry

 

[porschedog]

What purpose did it serve to disassemble a new gun?

My dad used to do this; taking his new guns to a gunsmith, in a box, to be reassembled became a major pain in my butt. He'd get all indignant when I asked him to stop dong that. He was convinced he was a master gunsmith (he was not).