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7/5/2012 6:34:41 PM EDT
What determines whether a gen 3 g17 has or doesn't have the cutout on the bottom front of the grip? I guess its there so you can pull tge mag out.
7/5/2012 7:59:56 PM EDT
[#1]
I have two Gen 17's. I have wondered why one has the front cut out.
7/5/2012 8:18:02 PM EDT
[#2]
I believe the cutout is earlier manufacture.
7/6/2012 2:01:40 AM EDT
[#3]
It seems to be a fairly recent change, as in last couple years. I think it happened around the time that the Gen4s were coming out, or closely thereafter. I've got a Gen3 G22 with NYL serial number prefix made in June 2010 that has the cutout and a Gen3 G35 with RBU serial number prefix made in October 2011 that does not.
7/6/2012 4:06:15 AM EDT
[#4]
Newer mags stickout. Cutout is unneeded now.