What Should I Do With a Holster-Worn Glock 17?

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I recently purchased a used law enforcement Glock 17 for what I think was a very good price. It functions perfectly and the night sights are good. However, as you'd expect with a former cop gun, it has a fair amount of wear on the slide. Mostly it's a cosmetic issue . . . being a Glock I don't think the thing would ever corrode.

Given my minimal investment, I've kicked around the idea of just doing a cosmetic upgrade of some sort. The first thing that comes to mind is Duracoating the slide, maybe swapping in a new/upgraded trigger spring, etc. Or, I could just leave it as-is and use it as an upgrade to my current nightstand pistol.

Any opinions? Ideas?
 
when the time comes to put it to use, no one is going to care what the slide looks like... but I say Duracoat it something other than black, like a dark grey just to make it different...
 
From what I've read somewhere the tenifer protective coating on a glock is not the black finish, so the black coating is just cosmetic. I'd rather spend my money on more mags or ammo than trying to pretty-up my Glock- it's not a Colt or S&W.
 
The glock is considered an "ugly" utilitarian weapon, some holster wear should jive well.

If you want to refinish it I would wait until after you have worn some of the finish off yourself.
 
Buy a $2.50 competition trigger spring to lighten the take up, buy $10 worth of grip tape for the handle (cut your own pattern - it's easy), and shoot the hell out of it. Maybe replace the recoil spring with a new OEM one.

A well-worn Glock is a joy to behold.
 
Spare parts, enough springs to last longer than you will, some more magazines, if you really want play around with different trigger/connector parts, luckily anything you would ever want to do to a Glock besides grip reductions are super easy to undo, so with a little dough sown you could have a Glock 17 set with parts to make it do anything you want.
 
I got a police trade in glock 23. Ive kicked around the idea of sending the slide back to glock and i think they said it was $30... i forget exactly. I haven't done it yet because I think it gives the gun character

hell of a deal though, I paid $220 for a gun that internally doesn't even look like its had 100rds through it and it has night sights

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What Should I Do With a Holster-Worn Glock 17?

Shoot it when you're at the range, use it as a door stop when you're not!
 
That G23, to take one example, looks sort of like a martial artist's black belt that is so frayed, it looks more white than black. No reason to birdsong finish a badge of honor, IMHO.
 
I do know that Glock will refinish the slide but I do not believe it is worthwhile financially. If the gun functions well I would use it, The wear adds character.
 
It's a glock, it will always be ugly...just like mine!

I would maybe consider some forward slide serrations and a simple $25 engraving from rockyourglock before you duracoated it.

(Ducking because all the fanatics will tell me "if it ain't on there from the factory, it shouldn't be there."):neener:
 
Just shoot it. It's going to be ugly regardless of what you do to it :)

As long as the internals aren't as worn as the slide, you're good to go.
 
Glock will refinish the slide for $40, but I'd recommend against it. I sent one of mine in to have it done on March 8 and still haven't received it back.

I've gotten wildly varying reports as to it's current status, but from my last phone call, I'm starting to believe their refinisher lost my slide.
 
If you were going to sell it to me and offered it refinished for the same price or not, I'd take it as is and just shoot the heck out of it.
 
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