[KathySue]

I just purchased my first Glock: Glock 19, gen 5, MOS! Now I am looking into upgrades and was wondering what experienced Glockers recommend for newbies?

Thanks!

 

[-JCN-]

If you plan on mainly shooting weaker target ammo, a lighter recoil spring can help with reliability and ease of racking the slide.

The Gen 5s are excellent guns bone stock, however and nothing NEEDS to be done to be a fun and effective range toy and defensive handgun.

I personally am a big fan of Red Dot optics on handguns and I think they are great training tools for newbies and excellent performance tools for experienced shooters alike.

Comparison I recently did was here:
https://www.glocktalk.com/threads/jcn-carry-gun-test-part-2-irons-vs-rds.1868396/#post-29782814

 

[Bren]

None. Spend your money on magazines, ammo and holsters.

 

[KathySue]

If you plan on mainly shooting weaker target ammo, a lighter recoil spring can help with reliability and ease of racking the slide.

The Gen 5s are excellent guns bone stock, however and nothing NEEDS to be done to be a fun and effective range toy and defensive handgun.

I personally am a big fan of Red Dot optics on handguns and I think they are great training tools for newbies and excellent performance tools for experienced shooters alike.

Much appreciated. THANKS!

 

[ThatGuyYouKnow]

None. Spend your money on magazines, ammo and holsters.

This. As a new Glock owner myself, I figure until I am better than the gun, I don't need to be replacing anything.

 

[KathySue]

Good point!

Easy to get side-tracked with all of the available upgrades!

Thanks!

 

[Glock4life!]

Nothing needs "upgraded" to new Glocks. Just buy ammo and shoot a lot, then when you think you've shot a lot, shoot some more.

 

[Gino]

Anything you "upgrade" has the chance to make it less reliable. Only thing I change out is the sights for a good set of night sites.

 

[Lil]

Night sights (Trijicon HD for me) and a rubber Talon grip are 'musts' in my book. You'll need a holster. Vedder makes an excellent, low-profile and adjustable Light Tuck. Welcome aboard.

 

[captcurly]

By all means get a good red dot. Keep the internals OEM. Glock earned the reputation of being reliable using OEM components. Shoot and learn how to handle the weapon. Just get use to it. Like a poster indicated spend money on holsters, magazines and ammo. Regards to all at GT and just be very careful out there.

 

[jmohme]

I bought my first Glock in 2011. A Gen 3 G19.
I took it out of the box, shot 200 rounds through it, took it home and cleaned it.
I repeated that process over and over.
The gun is still bone stock, including the despised by many factory sights.

The best I can tell, the G19 is a fine gun just as it came from Glock.

 

[Johnssd2]

Nothing except maybe titrium sights.

 

[Patchman]

For now, just buy ammo, get some training and shoot, shoot, shoot the gun to (1) establish its reliability "as is" and (2) figure out what part(s) of your G19 is deficient/lacking for your needs.

 

[tuica]

As stated by many - don’ do no nuthin’ - to it for awhile. In all these years, I’ve only changed the front sights to Hi-Viz {on a couple}, and added a NY1 trigger to one of mine.

That was to learn how it was done, and to test the difference over a stock trigger. I could have easily left it be. Good luck.

 

[TheDuckhunter]

I would swap out the plastic sights, especially if you are going to train hard with one handed manipulations. Other than possibly that there is nothing that "needs" changing. Buy the hell out of mags and ammo right now.

 

[Sherlock913]

Sights. My favorite Glock sights -

https://www.truglo.com/firearms-han...andgun/brite-site-tfx-handgun-sights.asp?catid=E5FDB84FE8F74C239330C1841BDD3D5E

 

[Sherlock913]

dupe, my bad

 

[K. Foster]

This question gets asked a lot. Just night sites and ammo.
Welcome to the forum.

 

['Ol Grandad]

None. Spend your money on magazines, ammo and holsters.

This.

 

[Longbow]

Night sight set and gun range membership.