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"This is an interesting Glock. It looks to be a proto type of the Gen 1 with the Gen 2 style grip.Please look at the single pin in the frame."
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Yeah, I'm looking at my 17 right now and it looks exactly the same also. One pin in front that the trigger pivots on, one in the rear through the block in the back. Gen 2 Glocks like this are not uncommon at all. As far as I recall Glock didn't add the 3rd pin until the Glock 22 came out because .40 S&W has a little more shock than 9mm.
ReplyDeleteIt's my understanding that .40 S&W and large frame Gen 2 guns got the locking block pin then all of the small frame guns got them in Gen 3.
DeleteI see things like that way too often on Gunbroker. Rare this and unusual that. I do have something rare and unusual though, that I'll give you first dibs. Prototype Savage M1899 Takedown in .303 Savage. According to the serial #79XXX on the receiver it was manufactured in 1908, but a takedown was not available until 1909 as a special order. It also has a non serialized buttplate which leads me to believe that it is in actuality a noncommercial prototype. I'm asking $35,000.00 for the initial bid. Yeah. In reality I picked it up pretty cheap at a gunshop in about 1985. Looks like the original buttplate was lost and a homemade one was added. It's true about the 1908/1909 dates, but you know how old records are misleading or incomplete. It's also beat to hell and back and someone had it tapped for a scope which pretty much killed any collector value that it would have had. One thing I gotta say is that it still shoots pretty good............
ReplyDeleteI actually have my Grandpa's takedown model 99 in 30/30. It is ready to go deer hunting right now. My kids think it is just the handiest little rifle and it still gets out to the range all the time. They like to say that the rotary brass magazine with ammo counter window on the receiver makes it a digital rifle!
DeleteMy hardly anything special about it 99EG in .300 Savage is wonderfully handy.
DeleteFor some reason it didn't have a buttplate, but that was easily corrected.
I grew up using my dad's M99 .300 Savage takedown that was made in 1937. It was handed down from his father. Great woods gun here in PA. I cleaned up my old .303 Savage and replaced the buttplate with a period correct one. I put brass screws into the holes that were drilled/tapped for the scope, cut them off and then peened and polished them to make little gold dots. Luckily I bought up all the boxes of ammo that I could find in the area since it's been obsolete for a long time. This was in the pre Gunbroker days back in the late 80s early 90s. The reloading dies were also pretty easy to come by. Speaking of reloading, did you ever use that .300 Savage brass that I sent to you?
DeleteOne of the local reloaders loaded that brass up for us and the entire pile got ruined when the roof in Willard's office decided to let the rain in.
DeleteLet me know if you need any more. I have way more than enough..........
DeleteFriends don't let friends buy plastic guns, Glock or otherwise.
ReplyDeletePlastic is devoid of soul.
DeleteIt is, however, relentlessly efficient at doing what a frame needs done. Even more so, it does it at a bargain basement price point which allows some damn profit margins for the company making them.
The Browning Hi-Power was running razor thin margins and MSRPing at $1,100 at the end.
Glock can make a profit selling Blue-Label Glock 17's for $450 and that includes an extra magazine from the normal civilian sale.
Satan wins and he's winning with plastic.
Last blue label I bought was in 2019. Paid 389+tax. I think it was like 428 out the door. And I guarantee Glock made a few bucks profit. If I have to give it up for whatever reason, I won't lose any sleep over it like I would over my dad's model 60 J-frame.
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