Salient Arms Glock Mods and slide stop question

Drail:
In the interest of fairness I looked it up, and you're right, this is a competition mod. I dont know how common or uncommon this mod is, but from what I can read you're right.

Turns out in some competition 1911's and extended 1911 magazines, the follower can ride very high, out of necessity in order to jump the big gap between mags and chamber and end up riding so high that it activates the slide stop, leaving one round in the mag and the pistol in slide lock.

People either grind down the slide lock, grind down the edge of the mag followers, or both.

However, as far as I can tell from reading, and from my own personal experience with glocks (20k+ rounds on my personal glock, more on others) this is exclusively a 1911 problem, especially in competition tuned guns and 1911 extendo mags.

Sorry I called BS earlier, I've held a 1911 maybe once in my life without firing it. But, I know glocks inside and out and there is no reason for this mod in a glock.

I don't compete, I train with my stock glock and take classes. I hope we can meet in the middle on this, coming from opposite sides of the spectrum.

I'm surprised at how close it actually is:



I still can't force the bullet to touch the slide stop if the case is even partially in the magazine. But, it looks a lot less impossible than I first thought.

It also looks like it would be possible for the cartridge being fed into the feed lips of the magazine to bump the lever on its way by, cause the slide to lock to the rear, and then seat properly in the feed lips. So when you looked into the action, you would see no problem and assume the shooter had accidentally bumped the lever from the outside.

All this said, you could certainly significantly decrease, if not totally eliminate, the possibility of this happening by grinding just the point off the protrusion leaving plenty of material to engage the follower and lock the slide to the rear when empty.

Took a quick picture of mine too, but it's nowhere near that close.


I've fired my own lead reloads, and many different types of bullets from fmjs to truncated cones, to hollow points, to flat points, with no failures, beside maybe two to three failure to lock back due to my fat fingers on the extended slide release.

Miky is that 40?

Yes, it's a .40. I thin km the angle was a bit off in the first pic, the pic above is with the magazine partially unseated so you can get an idea of where the round is as it passes the slide stop.

Lycidas Janwor said:

Interesting... but for an every-day-carry Glock, it seems like an unecessary modification. Sure, if you intend to use it for competition shooting it makes sense.

So, is that the intent behind these expensive Salient Glocks, competition shooting?

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Why would you EDC a Salient Arms Glock? Salient guns, especially a tier 1, are intended for competition and that is it. I completely understand why they would remove the slide lock feature, because only a few days ago I had a gun lock back halfway through a magazine while the clock was running.

Salient guns, especially a tier 1, are intended for competition and that is it.

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So they claim.

As I stated earlier, their mods put you at a disadvantage under USPSA or 3 gun.. There is absolutely no advantage gained by a Tier 1 anything. Hell they cannot even be bothered to put a magwell on the gun for that price. If you ask me, its targeted at Armchair Commandos.