Glock Grip Plugs

[Barth]

I always have installed them....for nothing else they look better. Gun kinda looks unfinished with out plug and the plugs don't break the bank.

+1.
It's just aesthetics to me.
But I still have a Pearce in my G27 and like it.

[jocko]

We had plugs in all our Glock 21's prior to sending them all to Robar for grip texture and many for grip reduction. The theory of the plug assisting in reloads is sound but I put painters tape on a dozen guns on range days when they were training or practicing etc and usually the tape was pristine and unmarked upon their return so while it certainly don't hurt, I don't think they are a huge help either.

I too felt it was a good drain for crude that might get in there from above but never experienced any in all the guns I looked over.

A little Acra Glas with the black dye mixed in is a good way to plug the little void on our Kahrs which are off course a much much smaller void than Glocks.

I closed mine up a little bit with the wood burner when I textured my PM45. Still a tiny hole but hardly noticeable.

open area is perfect for one Trojan.(size XL) Just sayin. Always be prepared, if u can't shoot um then fokk um. works for me.

I do have the plug in my G19 and it looks like it belongs there but it can be used the same as for a kahr. Just sayin

[getsome]

Better make sure you got room for a Viagra in there too....Shame to disappoint um with a defective gun....Just sayin...

[wyntrout]

I was ready to complain about the "ramp" but after inserting a magazine a few times, I could see that it helps... one less direction for the magazine to go the wrong way when you're excited and in a hurry to stuff something somewhere!

I thought about sticking an extra round in there, but with 13 or 15, depending on the model and what reload I had, it would be more trouble to remove the thing in a hurry. There are several shoulder stocks and carbine/rifle stock thingies that use that space and the hole, too. We're talking SBR, though and the $200 tax stamp... BEFORE you have possession of the both parts... the pistol and the stock.

Wynn

[Ljutic]

I have the plugs in about half my Glocks. Just too absent minded to order them for the rest. It certainly doesn't hurt and may help with reloads, but I'm not sure until I can get video proof of that.

[ParabellumJ]

I put a glockmeister plug in my 19, it seems to "finish" the pistol. My understanding of the hole in the grip was to aid in removing a jammed magazine, not for any debris drain. Personally I think it does more cosmetically than it does to aid reloads.

[wyntrout]

There are some plugs without the ramp... kind of what I was thinking about, but this does serve a function and you can use it to get the magazine inserted more easily just by indexing on it.

Wynn

[HighLander51]

Plugs do help for mag changes, but they are also useful to store an extra trigger reset spring and extractor in behind the plug. The real reason for the open back strap is to attach a lanyard.

[reswob]

I've always heard the hole is there to attach the pistol to a lanyard, as they like to do over in the Europe. Over here, they do much.

Now, I have heard the argument against the plug, saying if a mag ever got stuck (???? I don't see how ???) you don't have that area to get a thumb against the mag to help pull it out. I used a plug in my 21, but mine was flush fit (didn't stick out).

All the big names in handgun training advocate ways to remove these elusive 'stuck magazines'. Many go so far as to cut large holes on either side of the grip to have access to pull out such magazines.

I have never experienced, seen someone, or heard about someone getting a magazine stuck in a handgun, and I have a hard time thinking up how that would ever happen. But, what do I know, I don't have my own youtube channel on firearm tactics!

[JFootin]

All the big names in handgun training advocate ways to remove these elusive 'stuck magazines'. Many go so far as to cut large holes on either side of the grip to have access to pull out such magazines.

Does this mean jocko is a big name in handgun training?