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New Glock G30S and Alien Gear Hybrid Leather-Kydex IWB Holster for 69th BD!
Well I drove about 90 miles to meet a guy FTF from the Tallahassee area and bought his unfired G30S. Included in the deal were two optional 9-round, flush-fitting mags and a new Alien Ware IWB Kydex-hybrid holster! Evidently he needed money for other projects and hobbies and had way too many Glocks!
I wasn't really in the market for THIS pistol... but for $475 I was sold. I told him I wanted it and then texted the next day to say I couldn't get it as we were paying for our May road trip the end of THIS month. This was like Thursday, and Friday we got a check from Wifey's parents to use on our next visit there... a share of funds from the cell tower on their mountainous chunk of SW Colorado. Anyhow, I had a brilliant idea and asked Wifey about me borrowing some of that until the next month so I could get the pistol... a SUPER deal... for my birthday. She said okay, so I texted the guy and we were back on for the Monday FTF.
Tuesday I took both new acquisitions the G30S and the Noble .22 pump rifle to the range... 15 yards max.
The G30S shot well, but after one mag I put masking tape on my trigger finger and a little later found a Bandaid in my van to keep my trigger finger from BLEEDING! The trigger safety thingy sucks! I very lightly sanded that, but I don't expect that did any good. I'll need tape or gloves to shoot that pistol much. I did eventually put on my fingerless flight gloves, too, because my hand was feeling a bit of pain, too. I fired 200 rounds of 230-grain FMJ... Federal Champion, Selliet & Bellot, Remington, and Blazer Aluminum, with absolutely no problems. I used and broke in all four G30S mags, as well as four of my G21 13-rounders. The included mags were hard to load to capacity when starting out, but the UPLULA really helped, and all mags were easy to load with it after the range trip and cleaning the mags. I took those apart and gave them some TLC.
I have a whole list of stuff to get, yet, but did add an extended slide release before the trip to the range.
The gun shot well and I could get a few rounds right where I WANTED them once in a while... the rest I sprinkled all around the target and even a few off the letter-sized sheet of paper at 15 yards.
I only fired a few rounds of my defense ammo... 8 total of Speer 230-gr Gold Dots and 5 230-gr GDSB. I'll work with those more later... just wanted to break this in first trip. So I fired about 214 or so rounds total. I added a round or two FMJ besides the four whole boxes I expended.
I have three .45 pistols now... G21 SF, G30S, and my PM45 DLC. I took some pictures of everything and watched my videos and made a few stills from the videos. It will take a few posts to get to those.
I'm hoping to use the G30S for night carry or when I really want more firepower. My usual EDC is my Mag-na-ported P40 with the Big Dot front sight and the Trijicon 2-dot rear night sight. I will get the Trijicon HD NS with the Yellow FS on the G30S (as I put on my G21 SF and G23C), and plan on the Ghost 3.5 connector, extended mag release, extended slide lock lever, and a grip plug if I can find one that fits!
A few pix and then some more.
Pictured is a G21 13-round mag in a holder along with some defense ammo.
Wynn
I wasn't really in the market for THIS pistol... but for $475 I was sold. I told him I wanted it and then texted the next day to say I couldn't get it as we were paying for our May road trip the end of THIS month. This was like Thursday, and Friday we got a check from Wifey's parents to use on our next visit there... a share of funds from the cell tower on their mountainous chunk of SW Colorado. Anyhow, I had a brilliant idea and asked Wifey about me borrowing some of that until the next month so I could get the pistol... a SUPER deal... for my birthday. She said okay, so I texted the guy and we were back on for the Monday FTF.
Tuesday I took both new acquisitions the G30S and the Noble .22 pump rifle to the range... 15 yards max.
The G30S shot well, but after one mag I put masking tape on my trigger finger and a little later found a Bandaid in my van to keep my trigger finger from BLEEDING! The trigger safety thingy sucks! I very lightly sanded that, but I don't expect that did any good. I'll need tape or gloves to shoot that pistol much. I did eventually put on my fingerless flight gloves, too, because my hand was feeling a bit of pain, too. I fired 200 rounds of 230-grain FMJ... Federal Champion, Selliet & Bellot, Remington, and Blazer Aluminum, with absolutely no problems. I used and broke in all four G30S mags, as well as four of my G21 13-rounders. The included mags were hard to load to capacity when starting out, but the UPLULA really helped, and all mags were easy to load with it after the range trip and cleaning the mags. I took those apart and gave them some TLC.
I have a whole list of stuff to get, yet, but did add an extended slide release before the trip to the range.
The gun shot well and I could get a few rounds right where I WANTED them once in a while... the rest I sprinkled all around the target and even a few off the letter-sized sheet of paper at 15 yards.
I only fired a few rounds of my defense ammo... 8 total of Speer 230-gr Gold Dots and 5 230-gr GDSB. I'll work with those more later... just wanted to break this in first trip. So I fired about 214 or so rounds total. I added a round or two FMJ besides the four whole boxes I expended.
I have three .45 pistols now... G21 SF, G30S, and my PM45 DLC. I took some pictures of everything and watched my videos and made a few stills from the videos. It will take a few posts to get to those.
I'm hoping to use the G30S for night carry or when I really want more firepower. My usual EDC is my Mag-na-ported P40 with the Big Dot front sight and the Trijicon 2-dot rear night sight. I will get the Trijicon HD NS with the Yellow FS on the G30S (as I put on my G21 SF and G23C), and plan on the Ghost 3.5 connector, extended mag release, extended slide lock lever, and a grip plug if I can find one that fits!
A few pix and then some more.
Pictured is a G21 13-round mag in a holder along with some defense ammo.
Wynn
Seems like you're doing it up right.
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