So-called "Roland Special" Glocks with red dots and large boxy compensators are the new hotness.
But it you need to be careful about which compensator design you use.
Most look something like this, with a series of skinny ports around the perimeter:
However, for some reason, some companies offer compensators with large ports:
As he is wont to do, Murphy will find a way...
Here's a video of a guy shooting his "Roland Special" Glock with one of these large port compensators. His brass is ejecting rather weakly (likely due to the use of modified spring weights), and one piece of brass manages to land perfectly inside the large port on the top of his compensator. His next trigger pull resulted in a squib-like malfunction, destroying his compensator and potentially damaging other parts on his gun.
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Neat. Shot right through the casing with the last round.
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There's more to building an "Open Glock" than just putting a comp on it. Usually you fiddle with the extraction/ejection parts to get it to throw them flatter out from under the sight mount. Of course with an RMR there's no need... until you watch this video and see there still is.
The comped Glock is about the worst thing you can do. Usually it's what people do in USPSA to see if they want to shoot Open, but don't want to spend all the money on a real Open gun. So they sink all that money into building it. It never really works right and they end up selling it to someone else, who never really gets it to work right. Most of the people I know with Open Glocks never actually shoot them, and they're the 3rd or 4th owner.
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Originally posted by Augen: Couldn't / shouldn't these people just get a Glock 34? Weren't they designed for competition? As a non-competitive shooter I really don't know.
I'm not an expert on these type of "Roland Special" builds, but it seems like most people aren't using them for competition. These aren't designed primarily as "Open Class" competitive guns, although they do borrow some design elements from that style of competitive pistol. Instead, they're designed for defensive use. (Supposedly. I think they're designed mostly to cater to the Trust Fund Tacticool crowd and look "cool" on Instagram.)
The theory behind them is that they take the concealable grip of the G19, add a light for better night/low-light defensive capability, a red dot for easier/faster sight acquisition, and a compensator for less felt recoil and faster follow-up shots. And because of the shape and size of those types of compensators, which are similar in dimensions to a Glock slide, they will generally fit in a G17 or G34 holster, so you don't have to get a custom carry holster made.
