GLOCK Beavertail - NOT VERY IMPRESSED!!!!

[Howe]

Ok, it is me over reacting. I think it is still a very good product its just happen to be my Gen4 G17 is the older-with-no-nose-SOL model. So it could've work just fine on your Gen4. However if your Gen4 is like mine - Older, then you will need to see this.

After 5 long weeks, its finally here from Glock directly.

Installed with medium beavertail

See the gap behind the slide? It didn't mate very well with the original frame

With just a little bit of force, it get wild open!!!!!!

According to the instruction. I suppose to hear a click if this is done right. However, per instruction: "The beavertail backstrap fits also on older Gen4 pistols without the small nose. The nose is only an additional fixture". Well without the nose, the backstrap flops around.

NO-NOSE older Gen4

Thanks for reading my rant. Does it bother the function of the pistol for the backstrap to be loose? Not really since you will be gripping on top of it. BUT just don't feel good seeing that. Felt like it can catch garment while seating it in holster.

Gonna go F with it for a few weeks to see how it work out on carrying and range. If it doesn't work... you will see a karma coming up.

 

[TyFromMD]

What's does the beaver tail do?

 

[Wendigo]

Helps keep your gun from biting you.

 

[Eviljagtech]

What's does the beaver tail do?

I thought it was for helping guide how hand when drawing the pistol. Also prevents slide bite, glock 19's bite me bad because of my fat hands, and whether true or not dad told me sometime ago that on the 1911 it helped the hammer not mash the back of your hand.

 

[Howe]

On those polymer pistol, its always top heavy due to the slide metal. So it will be ideal to get a higher grip to control the recoil. Problem is, the higher you go, more of your "palm meat" gets in the way of slide, hence the slide bite.

Beavertail will let us have a high grip without worry about the bite. But in this case it might bite your clothes when putting it back into holster......................................

 

[TxAggie]

Easy solution:



Sig P226 Elite with extended beaver tail.

 

[JPG]

What's does the beaver tail do?

Not sure but it is good eaten's. Can scratch off my bucket list.

 

[ibang1]

Not sure but it is good eaten's. Can scratch off my bucket list.

Anyone looking and thinking fried shrimp?

 

[MaxVO2]

****I have a newer Gen 4 with those backstraps. I installed one of the beaver tail things to see how it looked, and if it improved my groupings shooting off-hand, strong hand, and gangsta style, etc.. and it did not have that gap like yours does.

I don't think having that gap affects anything performance wise but I agree it doesn't look clean. I have thin hands so don't have a problem with slide bite but can see from some people at the range with simply gargantuan mutant like hands that the backstrap setup could help them.

Not that it would help you - but there is a machinist who shoots at my local range who made the coolest backstrap with beavertail out of aluminum with stippling, etc.. to match his 1911's setup. It fits flawlessly and he made it offset so it is a bit thicker on one side to help fill in the gap between his support hand. Might be a good project for those that know how to make these things to sell them.

 

[dontpanic]

It actually makes that Glock look better.

 

[lx1x]

It works.. At least for me.. With glocks.. I tend to get slide bite often.. With beaver tail strap... It help..

Not overly concern with the gap and being flimsy.. It's not my ccw/hd gun.

 

[Lou45]

Not sure but it is good eaten's. Can scratch off my bucket list.

Is that beavertail standard texture or RTF???

 

[HokieKev]

Easy solution:

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Sig P226 Elite with extended beaver tail.

I have this and love it. I just use it for casual target practice at the range though. It probably weighs more than the glock. Would I still love it if I had to carry it all day long? I think so. ;-)

 

[amoebicmagician]

Not sure but it is good eaten's. Can scratch off my bucket list.

that's a lot of old bay

 

[SCARCQB]

I use a beavertail on glocks, but I use the aftermarket version called grip force adapter.

I'm not too concerned about slide bite on glocks, but the grip angle on the pistol akes me point shoot a bit high. The grip force adapter tends to correct that angle, from 115 to about 105 degrees. Approximately the same to the 1911. With it attached, I can't dry fire with a laser from the hip and pretty much hit center mass of targets within reasonable ranges.

The original Gen 4 glock beavertail doesn't really do anything for the grip angle.