Glock frame mod?

[Too_Pure]

I have two Glocks and love them both. My only gripe with either is that when gripping the pistol, my middle finger, just above my middle knuckle, rubs the trigger guard right where it meets the frame on the right side. Does anyone have any experience with rounding this surface out? If I just rounded it off a tiny bit it wouldn't rub my finger raw. Or I could just man up and wait until I develop a calous there.

I guess what I want to know is whether doing this would change the color of the plastic. The amount of material I'd remove would be immaterial, just make my finger feel better.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Does it abrade when actually shooting it? I ask because mine seems to when just holding it, but I never notice anything when firing it. If so, sure, round off the edge with a coarse file or something. The color in the plastic goes all the way through.

 

[mongo356]

I guess what I want to know is whether doing this would change the color of the plastic. The amount of material I'd remove would be immaterial, just make my finger feel better.

I have the same problem with the grip. I just knuckeled under-pun intended-and waited for a calous, altho if I shoot more then 150 or so rounds I use a band aid on my finger.

I have seen many grip mods on the interweb tho and it should be the same color all the way through. I myself have never done more than some minor trimming or sanding and I never noticed any color change. I never did go real deep cause like dry walling or auto body I don't trust my work.

 

[Too_Pure]

Then is sounds like it's be okay. I think I'll wrap some fine sand paper around a pencil or some thing and just go a little bit, give it a try, repeat. I honestly think that the amount I want off would not be visually noticable.

I does dig when shooting, but only on the G20. The 30, which I haven't had for long seems not as noticeable.

 

[GLOOB]

The G19 rubs me there, too. It crossed my mind many times to relieve the trigger guard. But I never got around to it. And over time, I no longer notice it. So I'm glad I was lazy about it.

And like Lone pointed out, it never actually rubbed or abraded me while shooting. It just sorta stuck into the side of my finger enough to be annoying while holding it.

 

[Dogguy]

When I shot my Glocks several times a month, I developed a "Glock callous" on my middle finger of my shooting hand due to the trigger guard. I also did not like the fact that my fingers always wrapped around the high points of the Glock finger grooves. After gathering up my courage, I took down the Dremel and slowly went to work, sanding a relief area in the trigger guard and flattening down the finger grooves of one of my Glocks. It worked so well, I did the same to all of them.

If all you want to do is cut a relief in the trigger guard, it's easy to do with a Dremel or with just some sandpaper. Dremel is faster but you need to go slow and use the finest grit of the Dremel sanding discs. You can also polish it nicely with the Dremel felt wheels.

Be sure to use the finest grit sandpaper you can find. Coarse grit paper will raise plastic "hairs" on the Glock polymer frame.

 

[ForumSurfer]

My g19 doesn't aggravate my skin there. Maybe I'm calloused, have tougher hands or I'm just built different so that it isn't an issue.

I've used the pencil and sandpaper method to put index points under the trigger guard for my strong hand middle finger and support hand index finger so I can establish a consistent grip quickly. The color stays the same. It is still a glock, though...so I'm not too concerned with what it looks like.