I still like my "G50" better. The G19 slide/barrel is long enough. Only 1/2" difference between G19 and G17. I shoot both equally well and 1/2 of barrel isn't going to change velocity enough to matter.
I cut a G19 grip to G26 length meaning I can use ANY double stack Glock 9mm magazine and unlike the G26 I have a rail for mounting a light on. The grip is a little short with Glock 10 round mags, but perfect with MagPul 12 rounders. (Mag on the left). The next to the right is a G26 mag with a +2 extension.
The workmanship isn't professional quality, but it works. If Glock made this version, I bet it would sell.
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I would have thought that your "50" would have been the route they had chosen, as it seems to be a pretty popular conversion. At least with it, there is a truly noticeable difference in the size of the grips. The difference between the 17 and 19 really isnt anything to worry about.
Then again, is this really a "Glock" gun, or just something Talo asked for and really isnt in the Glocks line up? At least as of yet?
I recently got sucked into the red dot arena and was swapping non MOS guns out for those that had it. Apparently, Glock isnt making the 17 with the MOS now, or, at least when my local shop when to order one, they were not listed. I had taken the 47MOS he had, and later taken a 19MOS he had and wanted a 17, as thats what I normally carry. Not that there is really a difference between the 17 and 47, other than the 45 frame and the 47's "dust cover" nose.
Not having the 17 available, I started looking at the 45MOS, and hearing that the 47 was a sorta Glock version of SIG's P320 with its "swap" ability, put the 19's slide on the 47's frame and viola! Had a 45 MOS. That same swap also worked with the non MOS 45 I have.
If I take the 47's slide, and put it on the 19, you get what Talo was looking at, and other than putting a different number on the slide, no big deal for Glock. All it is, is doing what I did above.
Getting something like the "50", probably wouldnt be a big deal either, and making a quick comparison, would likely simply require a 19 slide with the "dust cover" to pull it off.