You kinda either like them or you don’t.

 

I can not.

 

Totally up to you. If you don't like them, you don't like them. I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise.

 

I don’t care for them so i bought the 17m.

 

I'm sorry, but I can't. All I can imagine is that thing chewing up your holster, every time you insert or remove the gun, plus I really can't see any useful purpose in having that feature. No matter how badly I wanted a gun that happened to have them, that feature alone would keep me from buying it.

 

How tight is the throat on your holster?

 

There is no reason for them other than a foolish press check. I don't want my hand that close to the barrel, and I've never had a problem without them. As mentioned above they tend to chew up a holster.

 

My SR9c has forward serrations and I use them all the time, usually to unload the chamber into my hand instead of chucking it into the air and trying to catch it or letting it fall.

I clicked on this thread to see what the downsides might be (chewing up the holster). To me, it’s a potentially useful feature that you don’t have to use if you don’t want to. Front serrations shouldn’t tear up your holster if you’re carefully holstering, in my view. It hasn’t been a problem for me, I’ve had the gun since 2012 and I carry it and shoot it often. If it was chewing up holsters, I would have found out years ago.

 

I don't use them but I'm indifferent about them. I don't get why some people are so opposed to them to the point they won't buy one because they're there.

 

I don't like them. My Glock 17 Gen 3 (Glock Perfection) is a keeper. :fred:

 

I fail to see any situation where racking the slide with your hands/fingers that close to the barrel would be a good idea.

I could however, see forward serrations being *potentially* useful in situations where you need to rack the slide without using your other hand (injury for example). However, the serrations are probably not the best (or safest) on-gun surfaces to use for this purpose.

 

Yeah, I kind of figured it wouldn’t work. Oh well, here’s to hoping they re-issue the 17m or a Gen 5 sans forward serrations.

 

I think it's a Millennial thang.

Youngsters dig the forward press check routine and sticking their thumbs far out when shooting an auto pistol.

Surprisingly, being a pre-'64 guy, I don't particularly mind the FSS.
I'd rather them be gone, I guess, but it would never dissuade me from buying Gen 5 GLOCK.

Now.....keyed internal lock systems, thumb safeties on a striker fire pistols and silly warning slogans emblazoned into otherwise aesthetically pleasing firearms annoys yours truly aplenty.

 

I bought a Gen 5 17 on the first day they were available and it’s a great gun. I really like it just the way it was, maybe they could have beveled the frame to match the slide, but it’s a Glock, not my Wilson so I don’t really care.

Recently I felt like getting a second Gen 5 17 but they all have forward life serrations and I just don’t like them. Can anyone sell me on them?

Get used to them. I think they are here to stay. The slide serrations, I mean. Not sure what those "life serrations" are that you mentioned.

 

There’s always a guy like you in every thread.....and at every party.....

 

The reason to buy a glock with the forward serrations is that they come on the guns without the half moon cutout on the grip.

 

We live in precarious times. Don’t let something like forward slide serrations keep you from buying an otherwise well-made handgun. Get what you can get.

That said, keep your paws off the leading edge of a slide unless you want to draw back a nub or a hand less the normal five digits.

Want to avoid venereal disease? Keep in in your pants. Want to avoid AD’s? Don’t use The forward serrations. Keep your squeezers away from the muzzle.

 

I use them for a press check and they don't tear up kydex.

 

If they’re going to include it then why not. I don’t see any negatives to having them.

 

Slide lightening to ease carrying?

 

I’ve never needed them. I guess they’re for the press checking folks.

 

I just don’t see the point of press checks with the loaded chamber indicator....and of course a good old fashioned full rack of the slide to verify it’s empty.

 

I had no opinion either way until I mounted a red dot on my 17.

I've always racked the slide by grabbing the rear serrations, weak hand palm down over the slide at the rear sight.

with the red dot mounted, to use the same motion I would have to move my hand further down the slide, trying to grab the rear serrations put my hand at an awkward angle in front of the red dot which put my palm over the ejection port causing an occasional bite on the palm when the slide/barrel went forward into battery.

using the front serration eliminates this and the common sense approach of "keeping your booger hook off the bang switch" should prevent any AD's.

 

I can see them being a benefit with a red dot mounted. More and more pistols are coming with that option.

 

Look cool. Can rack the gun from them if need be. Press check. There free.

 

Everyone else I doing it, so make it cool, it’s all about style and sales.

 

Forward serrations, or the lack thereof, have no bearing in my purchase decisions.

 

I would think the Forward serrations are there for something to grip when you are sliding rail back a tad for field strip. When it comes to purchasing, that has to be your choice.

 

No, I'm afraid I can't sell front slide serrations to anyone.

There's no reason to disparage them, but I've personally never considered them to be of any utility nor have I ever purposely purchased a handgun because of this feature. Of the few pistols that I do own that just happened to have them, those serrations merely represent another area that requires a toothpick to clean out the lint, finger cheese, and whatever else finds it's way into the crevices and corners of the slide serrations, whether they're located in the front or the rear of the slide

These are the few that I own with front serrations (minus the FNS-9C which I sold earlier this year)...