Dan Forrester
Member
Ok, so I bought my new Gemtech Trinity. Now I’d like to fix it up. I’m thinking this is a good excuse to buy a new gun to screw onto my suppressor.
So here’s the dilemma: Do I buy a bigger, less reliable gun that lends it’s self well to suppression. Or buy a more reliable gun and use a Linear Internal Decoupler (LID) also known as a Nelson Device to make it function?
Glock 17: I could pick up a Glock 17, which by it’s self is a very reliable pistol. But have you ever locked back the slide and seen how the barrel tilts way up in the air. Now attach a 6.5 inch suppressor onto the end of this, and you build up quite a bit of leverage. As a result the pistol becomes wont function. The solution is to use a LID. The LID momentarily takes the weight off of the suppressor and allows the pistol to cycle as if the suppressor was never there (well kinda). The problem with this is that it adds onto the overall length of the pistol by a little over an inch. Also if I buy a Glock I would have to buy a $350 threaded barrel for the gun in adition to the $125 LID. I also have a Glock 26 and would probably buy a threaded barrel for that also.
Beretta 92: The Beretta 92 has a barrel that slides straight back when the gun is fired so can take the weight of a suppressor on the end and still function reliable. Also the existing Barrel could be threaded, which would save some money. By going with The Beretta I would have a simpler setup: No extra barrels, and no LID. However I think most would agree that the Beretta, despite its infinitely better looks is less reliable. Also that CX4 storm is sweet, and I could interchange the suppressor between the two.
Here’s pictures of the two guns compaired. See the LID on the Glock: http://www.gem-tech.com/TRINITY.html
What should I do?
Dan
So here’s the dilemma: Do I buy a bigger, less reliable gun that lends it’s self well to suppression. Or buy a more reliable gun and use a Linear Internal Decoupler (LID) also known as a Nelson Device to make it function?
Glock 17: I could pick up a Glock 17, which by it’s self is a very reliable pistol. But have you ever locked back the slide and seen how the barrel tilts way up in the air. Now attach a 6.5 inch suppressor onto the end of this, and you build up quite a bit of leverage. As a result the pistol becomes wont function. The solution is to use a LID. The LID momentarily takes the weight off of the suppressor and allows the pistol to cycle as if the suppressor was never there (well kinda). The problem with this is that it adds onto the overall length of the pistol by a little over an inch. Also if I buy a Glock I would have to buy a $350 threaded barrel for the gun in adition to the $125 LID. I also have a Glock 26 and would probably buy a threaded barrel for that also.
Beretta 92: The Beretta 92 has a barrel that slides straight back when the gun is fired so can take the weight of a suppressor on the end and still function reliable. Also the existing Barrel could be threaded, which would save some money. By going with The Beretta I would have a simpler setup: No extra barrels, and no LID. However I think most would agree that the Beretta, despite its infinitely better looks is less reliable. Also that CX4 storm is sweet, and I could interchange the suppressor between the two.
Here’s pictures of the two guns compaired. See the LID on the Glock: http://www.gem-tech.com/TRINITY.html
What should I do?
Dan
