Ghost Rocket Connector for Glock 34

[TMan]

The Ghost Rocket Connector www.ghostinc.com/category/35_rocket/ has a "Trigger Control Tab (TCT)" that limits over-travel. If you decide to install one of these, then be sure to order the Ghost Armorer's Plate: www.ghostinc.com/product/GHOST_ARMORERS_PLATE

The TCT limits the travel of the trigger, and as supplied is too long. They recommend using a Dremel with a cut-off wheel to grind off the excess length in small increments until the gun will fire.

CAUTION: Don't use the high-speed on the Dremel. If you do, it will cut off too quickly, heat up, and leave a 1/2" blister on your trigger finger. Don't ask how I came about this bit of knowledge.

You don't need to completely reassemble the pistol to test the function of the trigger. You can leave out the locking block, barrel, and recoil spring. The purpose of the Ghost Armorer's Plate is to allow you to insert a punch to press down on the sear to fire the pistol. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to remove the slide.

So, how well does it work? Quite well. The trigger actually feels a little like a two-stage trigger. There is quite a long take up where you feel the springs. Then it is a clean, crisp break, with no perceptive over-travel.

Do I still hate the Glock? Is the Pope still Catholic? However, after these changes, I think the gun and I are no longer heading for the divorce courts. It is heading with me to the range on Tuesday morning.

["DoubleAction"]

Seems like a good remedy, without shelling out alot of money. I have the Glock Law Enforcement Training Video. Although I have no Glock, I still enjoy watching the Video.

[5ontarget]

Is this the same Glock that has all the other drop in parts you ordered a while back. Is there anything that is standard original equipment on that gun?
It sounds like you finally found the right modification to make the gun more to your liking. I hope it does well for this time (and future times).

Speaking of lessons learned. I've also relearned a lesson I know I learned before. When stripping shellac, wear gloves. Here is a more detailed account of what I've relearned, steel wool can cut/punture your skin, Alcohol burns when it gets into the aforementioned cut or any other cut one may have (like from getting it pinched while dissassembling something like a gun bolt or removing a front barrel band), and when the alcohol evaporates, it leaves the previously dissolved shellac on one's hands (including the above mentioned cut(s)), the most effective way to get shellac off of one's hands is to apply some more (clean) denatured alcohol, thusly reliving the same experience of alcohol on the cuts. I wonder about me sometimes...

[TMan]

Well, I went back to the standard barrel because the ported one cooked the front sight. I'd tell you what I paid for the ported barrel, but I don't want to think about it. The frame and slide are still original.

However, I must say that I dry-fired this gun several times today when I was taking breaks from mixing and pouring concrete. I really, really, like the trigger now, which I hated before.

Unfortunately, I didn't take enough breaks, and I was sweating too much. Whatever it was I picked up in Vietnam breaks out during periods of intense sweating. I'm not very comfortable this evening. Don't know if I'll be going to the range in the morning or not. People might wonder why I was walking so funny. Of course if I was in San Francisco, people wouldn't even notice.

[TMan]

Back from the range: I started by handing the Glock to my buddy, who has over 5,000 rounds through his Glock 19. I told him to dry-fire it. His response: "Wow, that is great".

We mounted our targets loaded our guns, and I took aim at the target and started applying pressure. Just a split second before it fired, his gun fired and I jumped. My round barely hit the target.

After shooting a few rounds, and getting generally good groups, but to the left, I remembered that the 34 came with adjustable sights. A minor adjustment and it was putting everything in the center.

The gun is not the joy to shoot that the S&W 952 or Sig P210 are, but the results were awfully close.

Are you sitting down? After a couple of years of ownership, I can finally say: I'm glad I bought this gun. ;D