So I got my Lone Wolf 9mm conversion barrel today and picked up a few Glock 17 mags from OPS for $15 a piece (care of DaveK - many thanks man).
I ordered the LW barrel from Cheaper Than Dirt despite my hatred for their company's price-hiking during the election scare. I figured if I can give some of our local gun-shops, Spikes Tactical, and even a few of the ammo-gouging douches on this board a second chance, then why not CTD?
I've purchased a few things from them in the past, but I have since learned to despise their love of selling airsoft-quality parts passed off as "military-grade" (or other tacti-cool adjectives) as well as their infamous price-hiking that was so ridiculous, they actually hiked prices higher than their "suggested retail price" which was well below their "Your low price" and the "customer savings" showed a negative number.
And also, the only two other places online had phone numbers with no one answering, so I made my way down the list to CTD and I've got to say, I'm impressed with how they have attempted to make amends with the shooting community (after screwing all of us).
So late yesterday afternoon I ordered the barrel (and picked up a few extra goodies including an extended mag-release, 3.5LB trigger-connector, butt-plug, and a Ghost armors tool with orange plate).
It friggin showed up at my door via Fed-Ex ground today. Now, I will say that the Ghost tool wasn't in the box (but that hardly mattered to me at that point since I didn't expect any of it until Tuesday of next week at the soonest). I called them up and without any issue, they said they would send it out.
I guess everything they had was in their TX location and it made it to me in less than 24 hours.
Installed an extended slide-stop and I've got to say that as much as people have raved on Glocks being simple to take-down completely and detail strip - holy crap they're right. Putting them back together is a step-in-order process that requires paying attention, but I'm seriously impressed with how easy it is vs. any of my Sigs (even the older Sigs with roll-pins).
I'm looking forward to shooting it tomorrow (if I can get away to test it out).
I ordered the LW barrel from Cheaper Than Dirt despite my hatred for their company's price-hiking during the election scare. I figured if I can give some of our local gun-shops, Spikes Tactical, and even a few of the ammo-gouging douches on this board a second chance, then why not CTD?
I've purchased a few things from them in the past, but I have since learned to despise their love of selling airsoft-quality parts passed off as "military-grade" (or other tacti-cool adjectives) as well as their infamous price-hiking that was so ridiculous, they actually hiked prices higher than their "suggested retail price" which was well below their "Your low price" and the "customer savings" showed a negative number.
And also, the only two other places online had phone numbers with no one answering, so I made my way down the list to CTD and I've got to say, I'm impressed with how they have attempted to make amends with the shooting community (after screwing all of us).
So late yesterday afternoon I ordered the barrel (and picked up a few extra goodies including an extended mag-release, 3.5LB trigger-connector, butt-plug, and a Ghost armors tool with orange plate).
It friggin showed up at my door via Fed-Ex ground today. Now, I will say that the Ghost tool wasn't in the box (but that hardly mattered to me at that point since I didn't expect any of it until Tuesday of next week at the soonest). I called them up and without any issue, they said they would send it out.
I guess everything they had was in their TX location and it made it to me in less than 24 hours.
Installed an extended slide-stop and I've got to say that as much as people have raved on Glocks being simple to take-down completely and detail strip - holy crap they're right. Putting them back together is a step-in-order process that requires paying attention, but I'm seriously impressed with how easy it is vs. any of my Sigs (even the older Sigs with roll-pins).
I'm looking forward to shooting it tomorrow (if I can get away to test it out).
