Dr.Zubrato
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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.
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.