Posted: 10/19/2007 12:37:57 AM EDT
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I was reading a thread in this forum about glocks that have had their finger grooves removed and stippling aded w/ a soldering iron and I saw a pic of a glock w/ a Surefire X200 mounted on it. Here is the image address: http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u239/MagiKBullet/glock_34_h-520x388.jpg Anyway, as far as I know, Surefire only makes an X200 that works on universal picatinny rails. So when people told me that the glock rail is proprietary, are they full of shit or what? I know that originally glocks had their own proprietary rail, but I though that they stopped that a while back and went to the the standardized rail profile??? |
Yes, they were full of shit and didn't know what they were talking about. Since Glock added a rail to their pistols with the Gen3 frame, they have always used a "Universal pistol" rail. With the introduction of the G21SF, they have added the option of a "Picatinny" rail (on that model only right now). All of the major pistol lights will mount to a Glock "universal" rail with no issues or adapters Your sources may have been confused between the Glock and the HK or Sig? Both the HK and Sig's originally used proprietary rails on their pistols. Sig changed a few years back to a Picatinny rail and H&K finally got on board with the Picatinny rail on their new P30 |
This is still somewhat unlclear. Are you using "universal rail" and "picatinny rail" interchangably. If the G21SF has a picatinny rail but the others have universal rail but both could host, for example, and X200 what is the difference. Is it that the "universal rail" and the "pic rail" have the same cross section but the "pic rail has the standard multiple slottings? Why does Streamlight have models for standard rails and models for "glock rails" |