Mrs. dpnewell wrote:Since I already own the G27, the barrel conversion would be the way to go. I was a Glock hater for years, but inherited the G27 and G31 from my brother when he passed. The G31 is now my nightstand gun, and the one I usually wear around the house and property. Right now I'm enjoying a cigar under the RV awning in the dark, and the G31 is on my hip.
I've been into guns for 25 years now, lots of experience and training and years of deep research, and for defending your life I can recommend no type of handgun more than a Glock.
They're so good for self-defense that the only things I recommend are tritium night sights (can buy the gun with them factory-installed) and replacing the stock 5-pound coil extension spring with either an 8-pound "New York" or 12-pound "New York 2" trigger spring assembly.
Trigger weights are a matter of taste, but I prefer a heavy one on a self-defense gun for a number of reasons I won't get into here (maybe in another post).
However the biggest reason for replacing the stock spring with a "New York" assembly is reliability enhancement. Extension springs like the stock one can fail suddenly and completely (Murphy says at the worst possible moment), while compression springs basically never suddenly fail and instead slowly get softer with less resistance over time (which you can notice, and replace them). The New York trigger spring assemblies use a redundant pair of two kinds of compression spring, a metal coil spring inside a plastic leaf spring. No extension springs.
No sudden failures are possible, due to compression not extension, and due to the redundancy. If the metal coil one were to fail suddenly which is incredibly unlikely, the plastic leaf compression spring it's within continues to function sufficiently. In fact, unlike today's NY1 (olive green plastic) and NY2 (orange plastic) trigger assemblies, the early ones (black plastic) didn't even HAVE the metal compression spring inside the plastic leaf spring, it was just the plastic leaf spring, so it's fully-functional by itself.
The "New York" assemblies are cheap (a few bucks!), and can be installed by a gunsmith, or yourself quite easily with a bit of YouTube-watching or Googling. It isn't difficult at all, just takes a minute.
No other mods of any kind are needed on a Glock for self-defense purposes.
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