In early summer of 2007, as a
Green Beret A-Team in Southern Iraq, we had just fi nished conduct- ing an assault of the residence of a suspected IED facilitator. Search- ing the house of the terrorist we found three Glock 19 pistols among the IED making material and anti- American propaganda. As it turned out, the A-Team had encountered three Iraqi police who where playing both sides, and the Glock 19 pistols were their issued side arm. The fact the Iraqi police were issued a hand- gun, in our mind, superior to our Beretta didn’t sit well with the mem- bers of the A-Team. After my team had repeated this
scenario of capturing corrupt Iraqi police a few more times, we soon had enough Glocks for our entire team. The opinion of the major- ity was we should start to carry the captured Glocks as opposed to the issued Beretta. The Glocks were all in mint condition and had built-in light rails, tritium night sights and a consistent safe-action trigger pull —
Homemade Glock Mods
is it has a large-grip frame, which can make the gun diffi cult to handle for people with smaller-size hands. I had read many articles about gun-
the gun point truer. They can also remove the fi nger groves on the front, giving the grip a smaller circumfer- ence. I thought it was worth a try to
“After two nights of shooting, we put 1,500-plus rounds down the barrel without cleaning, oiling or giving words of encouragement.”
all of which our M9s did not have. It seemed a logical choice.
Battle Field Pick Up The Green Berets have a long his-
tory of being able to fi ght with any weapon they fi nd on the battlefi eld, so after a quick familiarization with the pistol from the 18 Bravos (weap- ons guys) the team was good to go — almost. We needed holsters and extra magazines, but I knew just the people to call for help. Heidi and Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch, both longtime friends who had helped the team many times in the past, were always willing to give a hand when needed. A quick call to Dewayne Ir- win of Cheaper Than Dirt of Fort Worth, TX to square things away, and we were in business. Less than 10 days later my team had the much- needed holsters and a combat load of magazines per man. I said the Glock was better, but not perfect. One of its shortcomings
smiths performing grip reductions for Glocks. Companies like Robbie Barrkman of Robar can take out the “hump” on the backstrap, making
do it ourselves since we could hardly send the guns to Robar! Since I had limited resources in the war zone, I went online and found a
The fi eld modifi ed Glock 17 on the lower left compared to the current Robar grip alteration.
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