What is the point of lightening a pistols slide? Head Down here in GA is now doing this to glocks for $400 or you can just straight up buy one for $800. It looks cool to me, but I guess I don't get what the weight reduction cuts do.
point of milling a pistol slide?
- Thread starter PewPewPewCo
- Start date
H
Hoss
Guest
One of my instructor busied had his G19 slide opened up with a giant window across the top. He says he can be on target much faster. I am too slow to notice a difference either way so it would be 100% wasted on me.
Mostly just looks, IMHO. But in certain circumstances could reduce muzzle jump for competitive shooters. I'm not really a fan, just because it would allow easier ingress of dirt or other obstructions. And that example from HDP looks awful. The new Agency Arms pistols are very well executed, but still not for me. I just have a hard time justifying spending as much or more on slide work as you spend on the initial pistol purchase.What is the point of lightening a pistols slide? Head Down here in GA is now doing this to glocks for $400 or you can just straight up buy one for $800. It looks cool to me, but I guess I don't get what the weight reduction cuts do.
I think we're just talking about removing material from the slide, not cutting ports into the barrel.
still.... sculpted or engraved... no big deal (cept on a glock.. just like putting lipstick on a pig)
comped or not, you are still going to have that flash.
nevermind the barrel has to be ported first so essentially you are right
That's pretty much the idea. But most competitive shooters also handload + swap recoil springs to produce minimum recoil and keep the gun as flat as possible. Lightening the slide alone is really just part of the equation.
I would think that if you lighten up the slide that you would have to balance it out with a lower power recoil spring.