Slim Frame or Short Frame?
I know most of the official press declares ithe G 21 SF to mean "Short Frame". It seems that everyone else has decided it stands for Slim Frame.
Either way it's the first revision of the 3rd Generation Glock in years. I know, guns aren't like cars or other consumer goods. The 1971 Cold Government Model is identical to the 1975 Colt Government Model.
I tend to look at the SF, though, as a Generation 3.5. It's not as radical as adding finger grooves (grrrrr!) or even forward and back stippling to the grip. The grip angle remains the same. There is still a big hollow space behind the magazine well. The biggest functional difference is a stock ambidextruous magazine release. This was something clearly done right and is one of the few things that Glock needed to learn from the XD.
Some things I wish they would unlearn from XD is lawyer triggers. I've become a spoiled puppy. I have had my triggers worked on so they are lighter, crisper. Around 3 lb but with less take up than I had on my 17L.
After going for a torture test this morning I am willing to confess to anything my 21 SF wants to hear me say. I think I hit 200 rounds and my trigger finger tip is still tender. I know, 200 rounds isn't even a break-in on a Glock. I don't think anything short of making it lay naked next to Rosie O'Donnell will make it so much as wince.
Of course it fed hardball. It fed hard-cast SWC and it fed "slow-ass Gold Dot". I'm tempted to try plugging spent cases back into the magazine to see if it will feed those.
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The 2007 Glock Annual specifically calls it the Short Frame.
That it does.
The photographs I posted were with the 21 SF paired with my stock G 22. I know my imagination doesn't photograph all that well.
I didn't have a 21 of my own before so I can't show comparison between the two.
I do like this imaginary pistol, though.
Some folks are having penile problems referring to it as the SHORT Frame. Slim makes the bear-belly'd ones feel like they've done some exercise.
If I looked to compensate for my "gun" problems with weaponry I'd be shopping in the Buntline league.
I don't have problems over which is which, though.
"This is my weapon, this is my gun..."
Calling it Slim, however, reminds me of my maternal grandfather's nickname. With a given name like Millard you can see why he preferred to be called "Slim".
I envy you.
You'll get yours, eventually.
Mine came about through a local kitchen table dealer offering the best price I'd yet seen. After I bought mine he dropped the price even lower on these.
The real envy, though, should come after the trigger gets sweetened.
You put cast lead through a Glock?
Yes, indeed. I did.
I took the assurances of the fellow who had mixed up the batch of lead that his stuff was harder than normal cast lead.
It wasn't a lot. The gun did not blow up. There is no visible build up along the polygonal rifling.
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