Video, "Weird $100 .22 glock conversion kit"

[sealocan]

The price is good ( I think traditional style .22 con. kits for Glock are around $275+) but having to load each .22 round into those caliber adapter/ conversion shells might be a pain if you're shooting all day.
It could be a benefit if you want to use your regular gun's slide, something most conversion kits can't do, with Your optics and / or sights but I'm guessing it's point of aim will change, right?

What are your thoughts?

Would you buy one?

How about buying it for $40 that was just that barrel altered to be a Single shot .22 Glock conversion?
(* They don't offer that Yet, my mind just automatically thought up a way to bring the price way down And not deal with loading and picking up from the ground all those caliber adapter shells. You wouldn't have the factory extractor / ejector so you would have to be popping out the rounds by hand as well.)

https://youtu.be/S3_6A51tIrM

[sealocan]

*Duplicate post*

[sealocan]

I think I'd buy both the conversion or a low cost single shot .22 barrel only conversion, if they ever offered it.

[Oldmandan]

The case adapter is a lame idea. Will take too long to load up a mag.

[sealocan]

The case adapter is a lame idea. Will take too long to load up a mag.

^ Yup, that's exactly what I was saying. It might be a fine system for other centerfire to centerfire conversions, where you're not going to be blasting away all day because it's cheaper .22 ammo but I do understand that's what they had to do to use the factory extractor/ejector, that normally wouldn't reach far enough in to grab the rim of the .22 rimfire rounds.

Maybe they should have tried to design it without an extractor or ejector like some of the Beretta 22 semi auto pistols work. Where it works something like the pressure of the round going off pushes the spent shell casing out of the barrel.

One of our Calguns firearms experts, like Randall or others here could probably explain why that wouldn't work either, though.

But we've got to keep in mind something important...

The price is right.

[k1dude]

Unless they come up with an easy loading device for those adapters, I don't see widespread appeal.

I also find it hard to believe a .22LR cartridge has the power to cycle a standard Glock slide, especially using standard Glock springs. If that were possible, all existing 22 pistols wouldn't need lightened slides and springs like they currently have now. I think you'll have to manually cycle the slide.

[sealocan]

^ I understand what you're saying K1dude , but I think they would have mentioned that you had to rack it after each shot if that was the case.

I had to give up my gun engineering dreams (after I accidentally shot just 1 hole in that Titanic boat sinking thing.) but I believe it has something to do with the fact that they've changed it from a tilting barrel design to a straight blowback. That tilting barrel design, that I believe was yet another incredible John Browning idea, allows for more pressure than a straight blow black could deal with.

I can't see why this wouldn't be California legal so if they actually start selling them ( which doesn't always happen with Shot Show products, for multiple reasons, like for instance it's going to compete with another product they make that's more expensive for the consumer, etc..) so at some point in the future someone here in California will buy one and post a review on YouTube and probably right here on Calguns as well.

[sealocan]

California law experts here, this would be legal in California, correct?

[jonnyt16]

The case adapter is a lame idea. Will take too long to load up a mag.

Not to mention having to keep track of them after being ejected from the gun. I'd probably lose most of them the first time out.

[sealocan]

^ That's a good point johnnyt16 .

And if you're shooting at a shooting range they'll probably be picked up and and potentially resold by whoever is collecting all the spent cases at that indoor range. But if you're shooting someplace Outdoors and people find those adapters, but don't know what they belong to, I wonder if they'll try to put in a 22 rimfire round and then try to find firearm that might chamber this new weird cartridge conversion.

Looking at the adapter shells I don't think they'll fit into standard 9mm barrels but they might fit into something oddball.

[sealocan]

* Duplicate post, see below, for my attempt at a joke.

[sealocan]

Maybe if I had changed this threads title to something like...
" Famous Democrat politician's M.I.L.F.O. wife's cat attacked by shark, saved by Amish pitbull" , it would have got more attention.

Live and learn, I guess.
New gun products, made for very popular guns don't get the attention on gun forums that they used to.


Just joking.

[k1dude]

New gun products, made for very popular guns don't get the attention on gun forums that they used to.

It seems most gun owners have left Kalifornia in the last 5 or 10 years.

[MyOdessa]

For $250 I can buy G19 .22 LR AA kit and two extra magazines and have cheap practice with my G19. All that is required is 5 second swap of slide and magazine.
Or, for $100 I can convert my G19 into a single shot with awkward loading, that may or may not function. For what particular reason would I need single shot Glock?
Lame idea.

[sealocan]

^ MyOdessa , I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion because I think having a product / ,22 conversion kit that has been tried, tested and proven for twice as much money might be the way most people, including myself, might go.

But I think you and at least one other person is confused, possibly by the way I worded my original post. The unit that is covered in the video is Not a single shot .22 conversion, or at least that's what they're claiming. No one has seen it run and I don't think it is even videos of it running but it's supposedly designed to use, and works with caliber adapter rounds that hold .22 shells and that cycle the slide that their design changes into a straight blowback. All while using your factory clock springs and Glock slide with any fancy mounted electronic optics, taller sites, etc., that you might already have on them. And I could see a benefit to that for certain lower cost training aspects.

What Might be confusing you and that other person is that I Suggested they just also offer a completely separate $40 option of a ONLY a single shot .22 barrel, that also converts it to straight blowback but doesn't bother with the adapter shells, because loading and chasing around all those spent caliber adapter shells is going to be a hassle.
Which I could also see being used for low-cost training of very new shooters, young people using their first handgun, or just something cheap and simple to use single shot .22 barrel that you throw in your range bag or camping backpack with a box of .22 ammo. for the just in case fun factor.
Anytime you go shooting with your Glock you'd have a .22 pistol too.
The two problems with that are... it would have to maintain at least "minute of tin can / rabbit" accuracy, while you were using your original slide sights and / or optics.

And the company making them would have to go along with My suggested low price deal of only $40, for just the barrel, which these days is the new $20.