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I own a Glock 45 and I want to mount a red dot on it. Should I send my slide off to ATEI and have the slide cut? Or should I just buy a G45 MOS? I've read where people prefer to have it cut--especially ATEI--since it will fit much better than mounted on a factory MOS. Looking for advice.
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One option would be to buy a G19 Gen 5 MOS slide ... about $400. That would let you use/try any of several RDS. Then have the original slide milled for the RDS of choice. Just a thought.
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If you're going to use the pistol much at all, resale value will be gone anyway, especially a Glock which isn't worth much to begin with. Holster wear, scratched frame, dime a dozen pistols...used Glocks aren't really much of an investment.
Primary Machine (dot com), will machine your slide to a specific optic (send the optic with the slide). Less expensive than buying a new slide. Custom, precise fit.
Originally posted by sns3guppy: If you're going to use the pistol much at all, resale value will be gone anyway, especially a Glock which isn't worth much to begin with. Holster wear, scratched frame, dime a dozen pistols...used Glocks aren't really much of an investment.
Primary Machine (dot com), will machine your slide to a specific optic (send the optic with the slide). Less expensive than buying a new slide. Custom, precise fit.
I did exactly this, and I really couldn't be happier.
I cannot grasp the idea of milling your slide to a specific optic. Yup they are pretty reliable but they do fail. When one of my RMR's went down I sent it in and clearly got a different one back. So then what? do you have to modify your slide, have it remilled, welded and remilled? Fitted? Or what about if you want to upgrade in the future like for example the new Trijicon SRO, fits RMR footprint but obviously isn't the one you sent in to be milled. At least for Trijicon this seems totally wrong. They designed a mounting system that doesn't depend on precisely controlling the size of the actual optic, so if you mill to the mounting system it will be fine. To the OP's original question, if you know what you want in an optic from experience milling will be cheaper, if you don't then I would get one of the non optic specific systems.
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Originally posted by hrcjon: I cannot grasp the idea of milling your slide to a specific optic. Yup they are pretty reliable but they do fail. When one of my RMR's went down I sent it in and clearly got a different one back. So then what? do you have to modify your slide, have it remilled, welded and remilled? Fitted? Or what about if you want to upgrade in the future like for example the new Trijicon SRO, fits RMR footprint but obviously isn't the one you sent in to be milled. At least for Trijicon this seems totally wrong. They designed a mounting system that doesn't depend on precisely controlling the size of the actual optic, so if you mill to the mounting system it will be fine. To the OP's original question, if you know what you want in an optic from experience milling will be cheaper, if you don't then I would get one of the non optic specific systems.
Many of these companies don't mill to the individual exact optic. They just mill to known dimensions. Jagerwerks for example, you don't send them your optic, you just pay for the milling services you want for whatever optic you have and mount it up yourself when the slide comes back. Primary Arms requires the optic before they'll do the work. Both are top quality.
Originally posted by Rigby470: Thanks for the replies! I have my optic already--a Trijicon SRO. But I think I'm going to sell my G45 and get the MOS.
That is exactly what I did, somebody offer to buy my G45 and after selling it I looked for a G17 MOS, thet are kind of pricey for a Glock but found a decent deal. I also consider the SRO but I went with the RMR as I intend to be used somewhat under harsh conditions, I'm very excited to put everything together and start training with this set up.
Consider buying the MOS pistol. Right now Glock has a Blue Label" sale going on, extending first responder pricing to veterans. If you qualify, a 45 MOS may not cost much more than the slide referenced earlier.
EDIT-I just checked. Blue Label for the MOS is 478 or so.
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