Conversion barrels

[Colts4me]

I got a CDNN sports promotion email with a sale on barrels. The have free shipping on a fluted stainless glock 23 to 9mm barrel, $90.

Anyone use converted barrels and do they run good?

I was looking a couple of years ago at Wolf barrels and they were $140+ shipping for a conversion barrel. Passed up on it because they were always out of stock.

 

[ByronF]

I've converted a 22 (KKM stainless) and a 23 (Lone Wolf DLC). Both received 9mm extractors and whatever other parts are different. I don't recall of springs are different, but I converted everything including little plastic spring followers for the extractor. Mine are as reliable as any of my Glocks, I think. They dont like whimpy loads, unsure if my native 9mm would like them either.

That said I dont recommend. 9mm pistols arent prohibitively expensive, and costs of converting now, to me, seem to not make sense.

 

[Colts4me]

I have had a Glock 23 for a couple of decades and don't shoot a lot of 40. I keep the gun for sentimental reasons but if I am going to run out of ammo it would be 40 caliber 1st . I have plenty of 9 and a lot to load so thought it a good idea to have a second glock in 9mm.

I can see your point, may as well buy another 19, they are getting cheaper.

 

[W.E.G.]

My G22's have $70 Rock Slide 9mm barrels.
I have several.

Barrels | Rock Slide USA

rockslideusa.com

Barrels are in stock now.

They like 124-grain 9mm fine.
Usually get some sort of cycling malfunction if I feed them 115 grain.
Makes no difference whether I use a 9mm or .40 extractor.
Run the same recoil spring for 9mm and .40 - although I tried different weight springs to try to get the 115-grain stuff to run. Didn't help.
I use 9mm magazines when I'm running 9mm in the G22.

I just avoid buying 115-grain 9mm ammo unless I KNOW I'm going to shoot it in a gun that was built from the git-go as a 9mm. Of which I have plenty git-go 9mm pistols. But the 124-grain stuff sells within a penny or two of the 115-grain. Can think of no good reason to buy any 115-grain 9mm at this point.

Maybe if you are worried about your only ammo source being stripping corpses for ammo, stay away from conversion barrels.
I don't really see that happening to me in what's left of my life.
I figure whatever ammo I'm gonna have is ammo I already have.
Besides, attractive-looking corpses are usually booby-trapped.
And LARP'ers with rifles AND pistols only carry pistols when they're LARP'ing.
Very unlikely you will come across a corpse with a rifle AND a pistol. If you do, its probably gonna be a shitty LARP'er. And his pistol will probably be some weird caliber. Not the 9mm you need.
Dead hood-rats usually have a candy-stripe assortment of ammo in their magazines. Literally every round different from the next.

 

[W.E.G.]

I recently got a PD trade-in G21 for $350

Holds 13+1 rounds of 45 ACP

Winchester "Ranger T-series" expands to ONE INCH in ballistic gelatin.

Compact 9mm is easier to carry. But winter is coming.

Reliability > Shot Placement > Bullet Style > Caliber

.32 ACP between the shirt pockets will shut-down most men within a minute.

Magic bullet that lands not between the shirt pockets may have little-to-none useful effect.