Glock Backstrap Channel Insert

[Dellinger]

The last guy said it pretty good. I have a mine blocked with a lanyard plug. No, I don't have it attached to para cord but some day I might need to. Who knows?

[scglock]

I don't see how it's easier to reload with a plug but then again I've never tried it.. Doesn't that make the magwell a smaller target? Unless its an actual internal magwell that has a ramp it doesn't make sense to me. They should start making ramp shaped plugs

[9mmepiphany]

Originally Posted by 9mmepiphany
The question would then become, why did they mold in the half-moon shape on the rear wall of the magwell, if not to allow purchase by the thumb?

...If your hand were square, the hole would be square instead of half moon. There is no purpose or utility for the shape of the hole -- it's simply empty space and its size and shape is a result of the desired width/length of the grip. If the gun

I'm not referring to the opening in the frame. I'm talking about the rear wall of the magwell (of as you are calling it the square magazine channel), specifically the half-dome that allows contact with the rear of the seated magazine body

[9mmepiphany]

dupe

[vintagearms]

I think the consensus has always been -- plug or don't plug. Doesn't matter. Mostly aesthetic. BTW if I had a Glock I'm not sure I would actually think of doing it, but I do think it looks cleaner plugged.

According to Dennis Tueller, my Glock instructor, plugging the opening can (rare, but possible) cause the frame to not flex properly causing issues. The half moon was designed to strip 1st Gen mags that were not fully metal lined.

[bombadillo]

Well...

Once you get past the black-top, or climb off your 4-wheeler, things can get pretty "Natural"... quick.

Crossing creeks, swamps, and bayous, falling gettin' out of, or into a bateau (laugh, happens all the time on muddy banks) or stand, or just bein' caught out in an inch-a-minute downpour, will test gear pretty well. (There's a reason Ft. Polk is still around)

Now, I don't know about just why, exactly, Uncle Gaston designed his genius the way he did...

...but it seems to work just fine for me, as is, all the time... since 1993.

Oh come on, how often are you seriously sludging through that kind of crap. I used to go beat on my YJ all the time off-road until someone totaled it, and I am near the ocean outdoors in one of the rainiest places in CA and never ran into a problem with needing to drain my gun.


I'm far from convinced that it is for drainage to begin with either. Only gun I KNOW was water tested was HK's design and even that was drained before fired with. All my guns work just fine for me, and anyone who is out hunting or otherwise in poor weather conditions doesn't carry a glock, they carry a revolver and/or a rifle.

How often have YOU been in a position where your gun is submerged and who ELSE has been in that condition while in need of a pistol. (NOT military applications, that is a different scenario)

[reckoner]

Here's what happens when wall thickness isn't uniform on a molded part:

http://www.protomold.com/DesignGuidelines_UniformWallThickness.aspx

Take a look at the bottom of a plastic ammo container with partitions for each round. Look at the sinks at the corners of the partitions.

Now imagine an enormous ugly sink like that on the bottom of your shiny new Glock.

[dracer]

you don't think that plug would make it hold water

[Sam]

I don't see how it's easier to reload with a plug but then again I've never tried it.. Doesn't that make the magwell a smaller target? Unless its an actual internal magwell that has a ramp it doesn't make sense to me. They should start making ramp shaped plugs

I've found it is easier with a plug because the magazine may get caught on the back channel without a plug.

[big blaze]

Thank's for the head's up.

[Red Devil]

Oh come on, how often are you seriously sludging through that kind of crap....

Not very often. Maybe a dozen times a year or so, tops, w/ maybe a week in the middle if work permits.



Then again there's duck season too...

[drunktank]

But you don't shoot ducks with a GLOCK! Bam, pot kettle black!!! (Just kidding, I need coffee). :0)

[Red Devil]

But you don't shoot ducks with a GLOCK!...

Very true...

[HK35]

But you don't shoot ducks with a GLOCK! Bam, pot kettle black!!! (Just kidding, I need coffee). :0)

I think he said he hunts with a glock which may include ducks.

[drunktank]

I was just screwing around