What is the difference in Gen 3, and Gen 5, Glocks?

[Dale Moser]

Besides the grip....

[H-D]

Barrels and trigger groups are supposed to be improved and better.

[muzzlebrake]

Bean counters figured a way to make them cheaper and blow up easier ??????

[Clay C]

Not much really. As noted above Trigger and barrel. I actually think the Gen 5 Triggers are pretty good. I believe the recoil assembly changed between the Gen 3 and 4 which carried over the the Gen 5.
Glock still misses the ball with their crap plastic sights. I know you can get steel and night sight models if you look hard enough but those should be the rule, not the exception. I put dots on all my handguns anyways so the sights don't bother me too much.

[bigdawg]

Besides the finger grooves, barrel and trigger group the recoil springs are different, G3 is a single and G5 is dual captured, and the G5 has ambi slide lock/stop and a larger mag release.

[Dale Moser]

Thanks, men.

[Dale Moser]

Bean counters figured a way to make them cheaper and blow up easier ??????

You mean the most dependable semi-auto pistol ever created?

[muzzlebrake]

You mean the most dependable semi-auto pistol ever created?

Not even close.

[Artos]

I'm not a big striker fire guy, but just picked up a like NIB Gen 3 model 23 for $330 shipped...my other 23 I got on here is the RTF2 & there is no way to conceal without removing flesh it's so rough.

The 40 S&W isn't as popular as it once was & worth looking at if one is shopping for a good used pistola.

I think a lot of the gen changes also revolve around marketing & a way to sell more guns.

[TXBRASS]

you mean the most dependable semi-auto pistol ever created?

amen!

[TXBRASS]

I'm not a big striker fire guy, but just picked up a like NIB Gen 3 model 23 for $330 shipped...my other 23 I got on here is the RTF2 & there is no way to conceal without removing flesh it's so rough.

The 40 S&W isn't as popular as it once was & worth looking at if one is shopping for a good used pistola.

I think a lot of the gen changes also revolve around marketing & a way to sell more guns.

Artos,

If you want to ever sell that 23 RTF, please let me know....

[Dale Moser]

Not even close.

You're right, it's the most dependable semi-auto pistol ever created, and it's not even close.

[Dale Moser]

I'm not a big striker fire guy, but just picked up a like NIB Gen 3 model 23 for $330 shipped...my other 23 I got on here is the RTF2 & there is no way to conceal without removing flesh it's so rough.

The 40 S&W isn't as popular as it once was & worth looking at if one is shopping for a good used pistola.

I think a lot of the gen changes also revolve around marketing & a way to sell more guns.

I had my gen3 23 cut for an optic, beveled, smoothed, and coated by Maple Leaf FA. It's not bad to carry at all now.

[muzzlebrake]

You're right, it's the most dependable semi-auto pistol ever created, and it's not even close.

For a cheap gun it's OK but the military chose Sig for a reason.

https://youtu.be/Za-RcqO7bY8

[Dale Moser]

There's a reason alright, but it's not dependability.

If the military is the standard for good decision making, then we're all ****ed.