Gun Picture Thread

BMCGear said:
I’m not super happy with Glock for rebranding the 47 as the 17. I’m hoping the change in recoil springs makes the new “17” reciprocate more like the original.
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Yeah, the 17 has always had the same length dust cover as the slide. It doesn’t quite look like a 17 anymore with the shortened dust cover. I hear the 47 has a different recoil impulse due to the shorter RSA of the 19.
 
91bravo said:
Yeah, the 17 has always had the same length dust cover as the slide. It doesn’t quite look like a 17 anymore with the shortened dust cover. I hear the 47 has a different recoil impulse due to the shorter RSA of the 19.
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The Gen 5 47s felt much faster/snappier to me than a 17. A 17 felt slower and I liked that better. I hate to use the term "snappy" because it wasn't awful but it def. felt faster in the hand and I like the "glide" of the 17 more. Again, the 34 was the best shooting Glock I've ever shot. So I like the slower impulse.

Dot shooters seem to prefer the faster impulse. 47s became very popular after Ben Stoeger started pushing them as "his favorite Glock." He said that for a dot shooter the impulse was better at getting back on target quicker and balanced the gun better with the optic.

The Gen 6 47s are going to have a single recoil spring so the impulse has changed slightly again. Most people probably can't tell a difference but I think when you shoot a gun enough you start feeling the minutia more.

With all that being said though, HK P30L has the best recoil impulse of any polymer 9 I have. :D
 
I thought this was interesting enough to share here. This guy over at the Smith & Wesson forum did a velocity comparison of a 4" 625 with a 5" 1911 (45 ACP, 200gr). Basically, velocities output by both are the same, the "shorter" revolver might even be a teeny bit faster. There are (not as trusted by me) youtube videos out there that show similar results. The hypothesis being that the additional bore length (*) in the cylinder (i.e., before the bullet enters rifled barrel) adds acceleration. Of course you need a pretty tight cylinder to barrel transition (**).

His guns in the first pic, my 325 (Scandium frame version of 625) in the 2nd and 3rd to show (*) and (**):

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ferider said:
I thought this was interesting enough to share here. This guy over at the Smith & Wesson forum did a velocity comparison of a 4" 625 with a 5" 1911 (45 ACP, 200gr). Basically, velocities output by both are the same, the "shorter" revolver might even be a teeny bit faster. There are (not as trusted by me) youtube videos out there that show similar results. The hypothesis being that the additional bore length (*) in the cylinder (i.e., before the bullet enters rifled barrel) adds acceleration. Of course you need a pretty tight cylinder to barrel transition (**).

His guns in the first pic, my 325 (Scandium frame version of 625) in the 2nd and 3rd to show (*) and (**):

i-THBTVdt-X2.jpg


i-jw6W6W9-L.jpg


i-PqqkkH7-L.jpg
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Thanks.
 
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