Everyone went ape shit before Glock added them and I really don't see their point, aside from press checks maybe.
Just use the rear ones you tacti-cool bastards.
What's the deal with front slide serrations?
Wyatt Foster
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Jack Johnson
Some people aren't as attached to their fingers as the rest of us.
Cameron Hernandez
>aside from press checks maybe
That's the first reason.
The second is that you can't use the rear serrations nearly as effectively with a slide mounted optic.
Julian Reyes
cant you just just the optic as a pull tab?
Mason Long
the majority of the people who complain about front serrations, or about anything on a gun, are people who don't have it and can't afford it so they bitch so instead of feeling bad that they can't afford $450 all of a sudden they tell themselves they're a hardened oper8r who would be held back by the gun they can't afford so its a good thing they don't have it, even though they can't afford it
Bentley Nelson
I've honestly never heard of anyone bitching about front serrations asides from an aesthetics point.
I wish more manufacturers would put rear sights with ledges or cocking wings/ears ala the VP9 on their pistols though.
Jonathan Reed
it looks ok on some guns but honestly anything other than a gen 1 or 2 glock is ugly as sin. love me that Tupperware look
Charles Gutierrez
not if your a poorfag with a vortex or lolosun
Dominic Hughes
I wish people would just grab the slide like a fucking man and stop bitching all together
Brayden Moore
Every review of the G19 and G17 gen 5 pistols someone bitched about how the new finish was slick and that they should've added front slide serrations.
Jayden Anderson
was more talking about folks bitching about having them than not.
I honestly see no downsides to them asides from them but they do seem frivolous outside of situations like the teflon Gen5s and those that really want their press checks.
Aiden Hughes
Its handy for clearing a chambered round. If you hold the pistol upsidedown and use the front serrations with you index and thumb, the round will fall in you hand. Easy.
Its standard doctrine in many agencies worldwide.
Nolan Moore
>hold the pistol upsidedown and use the front serrations with you index and thumb
I have no idea which hand you're using for what there, but assuming you keep a normal right-hand grip, it seems like you must mean that "upsidedown" literally -- rear serrations always worked fine for me, and only need to rotate 90 degrees.
>normal firing grip with right hand
>rotate 90 degrees clockwise around barrel axis, so ejection port faces down
>fold left hand over top of the slide, with fingers over ejection port and thumb on rear serrations
>rack slide
I don't have any objection to front serrations, but unless you're left-handed or something, I don't see how having to rotate the pistol even farther to catch an ejected round constitutes an improvement.
Cameron Gray
I don’t know but I’m buying one of these on blue label for 450 clams next week.
Brody Walker
Slightly off topic, but it's about the Glock 45 so close enough. I asked this last night never got an answer so I'll ask it again. Why the fuck wouldn't you just stick a Glock 17 mag in a Glock 19 and call it good? Why should anyone even remotely consider a Glock 45 when you can do the same damn thing with a gun you (probably) already own?
Jack Rogers
ayo hol up is that a Sigma slide on a polymer80?
Andrew Bennett
Looks like it. Remember, Glock sued S&W over the Sigma and S&W had to stop making them.
Nicholas Richardson
I knew the Sigma was a copy but I didn't know it was that close.
Angel Morales
My glock und wesson fotay, yo.
Yeah, it's not that close. The mechanical fit (rails, barrel, and locking block) is pretty damn close, but I really had to do a fair bit of modification to make the slide and striker interface with a Glock connector and trigger bar.
But then, this is the SW40VE -- I'm not sure if the original pre-lawsuit Sigmas used a similar FCG, or one more like Glock's.
Bentley Howard
i don't mind having them and it makes you look like a l33t operator doing press checks with them but if i'm being honest with myself rear serrations does everything i need to
Brayden Evans
some peoples hands are too big for a 19 frame but those same people believe for some reason that they cannot conceal a 17
Gabriel Kelly
>fingers over ejection port
Do you not see how this could be a problem?
Liam Williams
Do front serrations belong on a 1911?
Kevin Phillips
The point is to catch the round in the chamber you fucking retard.
Dominic Gray
Nobody should be using a 1911 for any serious use.
Colton Torres
TWO
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Jacob Rodriguez
Since we're talking about catching an ejected round when clearing a weapon, no. I don't see how that could be a problem.
Zachary Martinez
I felt the same way until I saw a video by Frank Proctor explaining alternative reloads using the front serrations. I tried it out and personally found it slightly faster, with better grip and a lot more comfortable.
I think the video has been removed from youtube and I can't seem to find a reupload but I think this is the one: gunminds.com
Tyler Ross
I saw that video and actually started using that technique. It's an especially nice method for pistols with red dots. Sucks that the video is gone. I couldn't find it either.