Posted: 5/14/2009 6:43:27 AM EDT
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I have just recieved my Glock 27 that I ordered 5 weeks ago. It shoots great but when I looked at the plastic guide rod it looked rough after being shoot only 160 times. My question is are stainless guide rods worth the 40 rough dollars they cost. I know that people say not to mess with a Glock but I want to have the best parts so the gun has no reason to fail since it is my carry gun.
Does anyone here have a stainless steel guide rod installed in your gun. I dont care much about the weight or reduced felt recoil (if claim is true) because to me the recoil isnt bad but I would like to know if they are worth it? Thank You |
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I have just recieved my Glock 27 that I ordered 5 weeks ago. It shoots great but when I looked at the plastic guide rod it looked rough after being shoot only 160 times. My question is are stainless guide rods worth the 40 rough dollars they cost. I know that people say not to mess with a Glock but I want to have the best parts so the gun has no reason to fail since it is my carry gun. Does anyone here have a stainless steel guide rod installed in your gun. I dont care much about the weight or reduced felt recoil (if claim is true) because to me the recoil isnt bad but I would like to know if they are worth it? Thank You I have one in my 20 just so I can change spring weights easily. The change in the feel comes from the spring changes, not the material the rod is made from. The plastic one flexes a little and supposedly throws off accuracy, but i did not notice a difference in mine. |
I managed to break the factory plastic one while somehow screwing up putting it back together after cleaning  I replaced it with a captured titanium model which has a nice black finish, I only wish it was a tad shorter and didn't protrude out the front of the slide so much. I might have to machine myself a new one one of these days. So for peace of mind, you could replace it, or you could call up Glock when it breaks and they'll send you a new one. |
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I just picked up a stainless guide rod from Lonewolf. I'm really happy with it so far. It cut down on the *cheap* sound the plastic stock guide rod made, and it also added a little weight to the front. The best part about it is how easy it is to change a spring if need be.
I'd recommend it. |
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I use aftermarket rods in my competition Glocks so I can use lighter springs.
Stainless and Tungsten ones work, but they do both wear in short order. This is largely cosmetic but still bugs me. Run of the mill stainless is really not a good choice of metal in this type of application due to its nature to gall. The Tunsten rods seem to be eaten away at an alarming rate. I've found that the Jager Products hardened steel rods work much better than anything else out there. The recoil spring doesn't eat them up. They are cheap, tough, black, and uniform. |
| The stock recoil spring assembly works fine if you dont need to change spring rates and such. I have guns at work that have broke the plastic guide rod were only held together by the spring and still ran, only found them broke when returned to Arsenal for maintenace. I have training guns with15000 - 20000 rounds on the original spring and they still are running. Spring looks cheap but works. My G22 carry gun is equiped with stock spring. You break the spring by not seating it in the right spot when putting it back together, then you force the slide back on and the spring breaks, see this all the time when we train stripping them down, then putting them back together in the dark. |
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I guess if you like to tinker with your gun it’s not a bad part to put in your glock but it’s totally unnecessary. There is a video out there of a guy going through 1000 rounds with either a 19 or 17 and somewhere around 800 consecutive rounds the guide rod melts and brakes and the gun just keeps eating ammo.
Honestly if you like to tinker with guns glock really isn’t that gun, they are best when left alone all they need is some cleaning. I come from a strictly 1911 background so I understand tinkering to make a gun better but glock really does have it right. I am a deputy sheriff; almost every deputy in my department and I trust our lives to unaltered glocks every day and every night. |
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It's one of the few "mods" to a Glock that I find personally acceptable.
Not a bad idea, but as said above the stock spring assembly is fine. To me, doesn't really hurt either way. I have a captive steel rod in my G23 (Aro-Tek). Just because. Doesn't really make much difference though. My G17 I've been carrying has a stock rod in it. No problem with either. In retrospect, it's not really worth the extra bucks. It is documented that the stock rod can fail......................but this is by MELTING and coming apart, toward the end of those "endurance tests" where they fire 1,000 rnds in rapid succession. I'm not going to be doing that with any of my pistols.........................pistols are not for supressive fire. 
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I have stainless guide rods in all of my Glocks.
Honestly, there's no real scientific reason for it other than my own peace of mind. And other than the stock guide rod looking flimsy, there's really no reason for my mind to need reassuring. But hey, Lenny McGill said it would make my double tap groups tighter, right? All in all, I think it's a personal preference thing. |