My original plan was to get a G26 and shoot it to see if I was ready to switch back to one after carrying my 365 XL. I came to my senses and said the 365 is much easier to conceal and I shoot it well with the red dot on it. I also shot my Gen 5 26 well, but at 5’6 and 155 lbs, it is hard to keep it from printing on my frame. The 365 is not noticeable at all.

Well, I could not leave without something, so a new Gen 5 17L MOS followed me home . With Blue Label pricing is was under $500 before tax. I almost purchased the new Ruger LC Carbine in 45 ACP and may go just may go back and get it tomorrow.

I have had 2 17L’s and this one just feels better in the hand with the Gen 5 upgrades. Range report when time permits.

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Very nice. I've been mulling over picking up one myself since I do like and prefer the Gen5 grip on my other fullsize Glock 9s. I have a G24 Gen3 but never got around to buying a 17L; might be the opportune time right now.

Nice. And that's basically the exact opposite of a G26 !

Nice! Took Glock long enough to make that one…

Most find it’s hard to transition back to larger pistols if you’d been carrying a P365 or similar sized pistol for awhile..

It's interesting that Glock has kept the pricing on blue label guns quite steady while everything else goes up. I bought a blue label 30s in 2015. With night sights installed and including sales tax it was $557 out the door.

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Nice. And that's basically the exact opposite of a G26 !

That's exactly what I thought when I read his post. Only thing that could have made it a little more opposite would have been if he would have gone in looking to buy a 42.

I could make a couple jokes about height and size, etc. But.....

Everyone I've met (it's only a few) who have 17Ls only say good things about them.

Have fun hitting the bullseye, let us know when it gets boring.

Wow I had NO idea(or faith) they were planning a G5 17L.

Nice find!!

It’s not a proper range session unless you loudly start it with “EXCUSSSSSEEE ME while I whip this out.”

I always found these to be neat guns. Never shot an L though.

Awesome long slide score. Congrats!

Very nice! I've wanted a 17L for a long time. It would be completely frivolous, silly, and really expensive to pull off, but I think it would be cool to have a nice example of every generation from 1-5. I'm both envious and happy for you. Let us know how it shoots!

They are cool as hell.

Because of a 6" polygonal rifled barrel, you can't squeeze more velocity out of a 9mm pistol than with one of these.

With the Gen5 barrel changes, I bet it's a laser gun.

Wow. Just Wow. Great lookin' pistol!

I have a Gen-5 G-34, and I thought that it was long!

That G-17L looks like it's about a yard long!

Did I see that this new 17 has a separate, removable synthetic chin piece on the slide, forward of the dust cover? Supposedly to keep down the slide weight IIRC?

I don't think I like that

Yes. Some speculation online this was done to reduce weight as well as simplify machining, thus saving money on both time and materials for slides. It also lacks the traditional slide window most of the longer glocks have.
I would like to hear impressions as well. I have seen several YouTube reviews talking about poor accuracy that most seem to believe is tied to that polymer chin piece. I would like to have one, but if they aren't at least as accurate as a standard glock, I don't see the point.

The G34 Gen5 also lacks the slide top cutout that previous generations had. But apparently Glock must have been able to compensate for the added weight from the now filled opening by deleting it elsewhere on the slide. Or it was just not that big of a deal with the G34 over that of the G17 slide?

I saw one YT video where the reviewer was very upset with accuracy of his G17L Gen5. It appeared to fire every time but he ranted that he was all over the place with it. In his video he almost immediately focused on that 'chin' piece, insinuating if not outright accusing that part has being the clear reason for his lack of accuracy. Maybe, then again perhaps not. I didn't get a feel regarding his past experiences with Glocks--admittedly I fast-forwarded and skipped back quite a bit while watching his video--so that in itself wasn't helpful in showing to me how much this aspect might have affected his shooting results, irritating poly slide 'chin' piece notwithstanding.

Another reviewer was bemoaning a perhaps unrelated problem to the existence of the 'chin' that he was encountering: the amount of failures to feed he was experiencing with his 17L. Apparently he was exclusively using the factory mags that shipped with his gun, shooting an undetermined brand of 147gr (couldn't understand his mumbling of the brand name) and 115gr Winchester. At some instances he was having failures to feed every 3rd, 4th or 5th shot, certainly enough to disrupt any attention he might've paid towards accuracy.

Yet from what I was watching when he gave the viewer a peek into the breech after a jam, I strongly suspect that the mag springs of those magazines that came with his gun were the prime culprit to his woes. I'd say that they need to be left compressed for a spell. It's not a common issue with Glocks by any means, but I've seen this happen in the past where the new mag springs basically need some extended 'squishing,' so to speak. For instance, a past coworker's then-new G19 suffered the same sort of stoppage issues; a week or so of leaving his new mags fully loaded cleared up his problem, and I suspect the same solution will fix this YouTuber's stoppages as well.

In a third review (one from a reviewer that I AM familiar with), Honest Outlaw's initial range shoot with his newly purchased G17L Gen5 had him come away quite pleased with his gun although it seemed that his was consistently shooting just off to the left. No stoppages using 115gr Blazer Brass exclusively (as he usually shoots in 9mm), though it also appeared that he was using a lot of existing Glock mags that he already owned. How that plays against what the previous reviewer encountered...I rightly am not sure. Meanwhile it wasn't at all clear to me if any of the factory mags that came with the pistol were actually used.

His off-to-the-left issues were most apparent when he was shooting at 75 and 100 yards(!); that's just Honest Outlaw doing his usual Honest Outlaw distance thing. He chalked his 'shooting slightly left' issue up to him not spending enough time to accurately sight and drift his aftermarket rear sight into the correct position. Otherwise he came away pretty happy with his 17L Gen5. He did say that he was planning on running the gun up to 1000 rounds and then posting an updated review, so at least we'll be given a chance to see if he still feels the same about the gun and if he runs into any problems by the time that he reaches that specific round count.

Three different reviews, so far three different results. Not sure what to make of it with regards to the poly chin, but perhaps it's actually something that must be looked at far more carefully. After all this kind of polymer part is something we haven't seen much if at all in the pistol world, at least beyond that concept of a simple polymer recoil spring buffer. Having said that, we should be able to assume that Glock has actually tested the 'chin' seriously and hopefully extensively. Then again this IS the company that claimed that their G44 .22LR could run hundreds of different .22LR loads without skipping a beat, and yet it did skip...and often. And they did mess up the Gen4 G19 and G17 launch by blindly using their newly engineered RSA designed for their .40 S&W pistols, carelessly thinking that they would automatically work with their 9mm equivalent designs. Which of course they didn't, at least very often.

End of long-winded synopsis...I just didn't know when to stop...

I just bought a Lipsey's gen 1 (reproduction) Glock 17L. $539. Not a bad deal. Has the best stock Glock trigger I have ever felt. I'm going to use it as a shooter. I already purchased a sandpaper grip for it from Talon grips. Now I'm deciding which iron sights to install. Maybe something with a fiber optic front. And yes it has the big rectangular cutout in the top of the slide that the new Gen 5 version lacks.

https://www.lipseys.com/itemde...temno=GLPI16301037C1

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Originally posted by bubbatime:
I just bought a Lipsey's gen 1 (reproduction) Glock 17L. $539. Not a bad deal. Has the best stock Glock trigger I have ever felt. I'm going to use it as a shooter. I already purchased a sandpaper grip for it from Talon grips. Now I'm deciding which iron sights to install. Maybe something with a fiber optic front. And yes it has the big rectangular cutout in the top of the slide that the new Gen 5 version lacks.

https://www.lipseys.com/itemde...temno=GLPI16301037C1

Nice pistol. They had those when I purchased mine but I prefer the gen 5 ergonomics and it feels more balanced.

I ordered a Holosun 407 which should be here in a few days.