Posted: 7/21/2010 3:02:03 PM EDT
| I was looking for a barrel replacement for Glock 17. I came across this LW for $99, seems like a good deal. There are many replacement barrels. I want to get a match grade barrel at a low cost, any suggestions. |
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The Glock factory barrel is hard to beat. It is high quality and uses polygonal rifling and is hammer forged which has many benefits.
If you're looking for a traditional rifled barrel for shooting lead, The LWD barrel is a great value and they work well. If you're looking for a more accurate barrel than the stock Glock barrel and go with a drop in barrel such as the LWD barrel, you may or may not see any difference with regards to accuracy. Most of the afttermarket barrels come with slightly tighter chambers than Glock so you *may* give up some reliability. To get the maximum accuracy out of your Glock with an aftermarket barrel you would be better served going with an oversize (non drop in) barrel from Bar Sto or Jarvis and have it hard fitted to your pistol which would run you close to $300 for the barrel and labor. |
| shoot whatever you want out of the factory barrel just remember if you shoot lead to clan it after every 200 rounds or so and not shoot jacketed out of it until it is cleaned. An after market barrel is not likely to add a significant amount of accuracy to your glock. |
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BrianNH's post is spot-on. It's a crap-shoot as to whether a cheap, drop-in aftermarket barrel will improve accuracy all that much. I'm assuming your barrel doesn't have that many rounds through it, not too worn? Maybe go the direction of experimenting with different loads..............sometimes you'll come across one that just happens to be exceptionally accurate in your own pistol.  |
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Quoted: Reason for barrel replacement is turning it into a low $ competition pistol. What does that mean? The only reason that makes sense is if you want to shoot lead through it. If you don't, I don't see how you can get anymore "low $" than keeping the factory barrel. |
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I'm talking about shooting in a USPSA, Production Division. If you have ever been to one or heard about one. You will see a lot of Glocks and S&W M&Ps at this matches. Most people that have the money will dump about $500-$1000 into their competition handgun. Buying such things as new sight, barrels, grips, spring kits, trigger jobs, and etc.
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Reason for barrel replacement is turning it into a low $ competition pistol. What does that mean? The only reason that makes sense is if you want to shoot lead through it. If you don't, I don't see how you can get anymore "low $" than keeping the factory barrel. |
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I'm talking about shooting in a USPSA, Production Division. If you have ever been to one or heard about one. You will see a lot of Glocks and S&W M&Ps at this matches. Most people that have the money will dump about $500-$1000 into their competition handgun. Buying such things as new sight, barrels, grips, spring kits, trigger jobs, and etc. Quoted:
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Reason for barrel replacement is turning it into a low $ competition pistol. What does that mean? The only reason that makes sense is if you want to shoot lead through it. If you don't, I don't see how you can get anymore "low $" than keeping the factory barrel. there is a difference between a $99 barrel and a $300 custom made barrel. unless you are shooting unjacketed handloads and want to get rid of the polygonal rifling, there is no need to swap barrels because you won't see any more of an accuracy improvement than you would if you spent that money on ammo and praticed better weapons handling. I have cut my group size in half buy just buy praticing my trigger control. Pratice can do more than a cheap aftermarket barrel ever will. |
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I'm talking about shooting in a USPSA, Production Division. If you have ever been to one or heard about one. You will see a lot of Glocks and S&W M&Ps at this matches. Most people that have the money will dump about $500-$1000 into their competition handgun. Buying such things as new sight, barrels, grips, spring kits, trigger jobs, and etc. All of that stuff is a waste of money on Glocks in all honestly (unless you want night sights). I would imagine "production" division wouldn't allow you to change a whole lot anyway. Your money is better spent on ammo and a good training class. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I would imagine "production" division wouldn't allow you to change a whole lot anyway. http://www.uspsa.org/rules/2009_Production_Rules_Revisions.pdf a barrel of the same legnth and caliber is allowed. |
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I bought two lw barrels. They're ok. Single accuracy improvement per $ spent investment was getting the Glocksmith MGSL. I think I paid $20, but the last person I knnow who bought one paid $30.
TR Graham 4560 Vista Rd Pasadena, TX. 77504 or.... Email - [email protected] |
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Quoted: Quoted: I would imagine "production" division wouldn't allow you to change a whole lot anyway. http://www.uspsa.org/rules/2009_Production_Rules_Revisions.pdf a barrel of the same legnth and caliber is allowed. Still, unless he wants to shoot lead bullets or wants a threaded barrel, I think it's a waste of money. Has anybody actually put their gun in a bench rest and shot GOOD solid groups to determine if an aftermarket barrel is any more accurate? Because I don't think it will be. |
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I bought two lw barrels. They're ok. Single accuracy improvement per $ spent investment was getting the Glocksmith MGSL. I think I paid $20, but the last person I knnow who bought one paid $30. TR Graham 4560 Vista Rd Pasadena, TX. 77504 or.... Email - [email protected] The guy knows his glocks, but i always thought his MGSL was a crock of shit. Does it really work? |
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I bought two lw barrels. They're ok. Single accuracy improvement per $ spent investment was getting the Glocksmith MGSL. I think I paid $20, but the last person I knnow who bought one paid $30. TR Graham 4560 Vista Rd Pasadena, TX. 77504 or.... Email - [email protected] The guy knows his glocks, but i always thought his MGSL was a crock of shit. Does it really work? Never heard of that one before. I always have wondered if the guys that buy these things do a true honest before and after test off of a rest or it just seems to improve their perception of their offhand shooting. Just thinking in my head of how those parts fit together, I don't see how it would make much of an improvement. The barrel makes contact with the slide to lock up, the slide lock just keeps it from flying off of the front of the gun. It seems like the smaller channel cut in it would be easier for the part to fail. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I bought two lw barrels. They're ok. Single accuracy improvement per $ spent investment was getting the Glocksmith MGSL. I think I paid $20, but the last person I knnow who bought one paid $30. TR Graham 4560 Vista Rd Pasadena, TX. 77504 or.... Email - [email protected] The guy knows his glocks, but i always thought his MGSL was a crock of shit. Does it really work? Yea it works. Don't know how. I bought one and was able to swap it in and out in under a minute. I went back and forth with it in and out shooting and could see the group sizes change each time with and w/o a LW barrel. My wife didn't notice a difference in her g17 with either the mgsl or the LW barrel, but she wasn't shooting all that well. I recommended one to paddler112 on the board and I tnk he saw a similar impact. Maybe he'll chime in. |