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Old 10-27-2010, 12:30 AM   #1
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I have a fantastic project, but I need the last piece of the puzzle, where can I buy an unchambered glock 17L or glock 34 barrel?

I want to use a milder cartridge for my daughter to use, I dont care for power factor or anything like that.

by the way I want to shoot lead to make it afordable...

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Old 10-27-2010, 12:37 AM   #2
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Two problems- do not know of anyone that make barrels for a Glock except, well, Glock. Second problem- Glock rifling is polygonal, and not for lead bullets. Danger, messy, harmful, blood, first aid, bad ju-ju.


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I have a fantastic project, but I need the last piece of the puzzle, where can I buy an unchambered glock 17L or glock 34 barrel?

I want to use a milder cartridge for my daughter to use, I dont care for power factor or anything like that.

by the way I want to shoot lead to make it afordable...

thanks

Joe A.
Ditto what is said above by c3. Have you looked into a .22lr conversion kit?

Glock 22LR Conversion Kits - glockworld.com
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but I already have other handguns in 22lr, I want her to learn and be succesful with something similar to what she can get when she grows up...

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Bar sto make barrels for a Glock. and they don't use the polygonal rifling so you can fire lead slugs.

As for as the unchambered part outside of a really good tool maker I don't know. It would seem better sense to buy a 22 or reload and download the ammo where it will still cycle but not be as rough on the shooter.
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Two problems- do not know of anyone that make barrels for a Glock except, well, Glock. Second problem- Glock rifling is polygonal, and not for lead bullets. Danger, messy, harmful, blood, first aid, bad ju-ju.
KKM, Bar-Sto, Lone Wolf, Storm Lake, EFK, Briley,Wilson Combat, and
probably a few more ALL make barrels for Glocks. AFAIK they all use
conventional rifling and are fine with lead bullets.

That said--an unchambered barrel is going to be .355/.356 bore diameter. The only possible caliber I can think of that might be "milder" than 9x19 and fit the bore diameter is .380. W-A-Y more trouble than it could possibly be worth. Extraction issues, magazine issues, functioning issues--

Put an aftermarket barrel in the 17 so you can shoot lead. ISMI 13 lb
recoil spring, and download 9x19. If you don't want to get into reloading,
the Remington-UMC 115 FMJ factory load is about as mild as it gets. It
won't make USPSA minor power factor from my guns.
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Default When my twin daughters were 12...
They had no problems with a Glock 17.

That was in 1986.

A colt .380 mustang had more recoil.

Now one has a Glock 33 in.357 auto. (Sig) and the other a

Glock 23 in .40 S&W.

A leftover first off duty carry pistol.


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