Posted: 1/8/2016 9:30:18 AM EDT
| Anyone locally chopping Glock 17 frames down to accept G19 mags? |
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I'd just do some measuring and lop the bulk of it off with a hack saw and clean up the cut on a bench mounted belt sander. I tend to be pretty handy around this stuff though, and I'm not scared to make mistakes. Making the first cut on a perfectly good anything is the hardest, it gets easier after that. Lol
Might be a good time to fire up the soldering iron and stipple it after it's cut off as well. I actually want to do this one day, just have to find a deal on a 17 first. It would make something I'd call a 19L. |
I know sight radius is cool and all, but this is still a bizarre modification to me.  To each their own I guess. Prolly just a matter of time before we see a 17L with the frame chopped even with the trigger guard and a custom super low capacity mag. "You sure can conceal it!" 
Some of these conversions are restaurant quality too... fun pics yikes. |
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Good explanation. Get a Springfield XD compact. Full length slide, short grip. That's what I did. Quoted:
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Why? Sight radius of the 17 and the ability to conceal like the 19. Good explanation. Get a Springfield XD compact. Full length slide, short grip. That's what I did. Yeah, but then you have a crappy XD instead of Glock! 
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Yeah, but then you have a crappy XD instead of Glock!
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Why? Sight radius of the 17 and the ability to conceal like the 19. Good explanation. Get a Springfield XD compact. Full length slide, short grip. That's what I did. Yeah, but then you have a crappy XD instead of Glock!
I'll take my XD over a grenade. ;) |
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I'll take my XD over a grenade. ;) Quoted:
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Why? Sight radius of the 17 and the ability to conceal like the 19. Good explanation. Get a Springfield XD compact. Full length slide, short grip. That's what I did. Yeah, but then you have a crappy XD instead of Glock!
I'll take my XD over a grenade. ;) Hence why I carry an M&P! 
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I'd just do some measuring and lop the bulk of it off with a hack saw and clean up the cut on a bench mounted belt sander. I tend to be pretty handy around this stuff though, and I'm not scared to make mistakes. Making the first cut on a perfectly good anything is the hardest, it gets easier after that. Lol Might be a good time to fire up the soldering iron and stipple it after it's cut off as well. I actually want to do this one day, just have to find a deal on a 17 first. It would make something I'd call a 19L. Cheap PD trade in G22 with a Lone Wolf 9mm conversion barrel. Chop grip to 19 dimensions. I actually have this set up, just havent got past scribing the cut on the G22 frame. |