Custom GLOCK slides are one of the easiest ways to dress up and make your GLOCK a little more unique.
Let’s face it – standard GLOCKs are, well, boring. They’re everywhere! Everyone and their brother has a GLOCK; it’s old hat. One way to make it better – or possibly even interesting – is to upgrade some parts, and adding a custom slide is a slam-dunk way to do that.
But where to start? Who makes the best?
“Best” is rather subjective; at a certain point there’s no “best” of anything but there is a “best for you” out there. But here are 6 awesome custom GLOCK slides to start with.
Lone Wolf Distributors is arguably the best known suppliers of aftermarket parts for GLOCK pistols. Chances are if you line up 10 guys with a heavily modified GLOCK, at least three or four of them have Lone Wolf stuff. Alpha Wolf slides are a series of slides, rather than just one, ranging from 90 percent slides that you have to complete to basic OEM-pattern slide machining to Damascus steel. It’s entirely up to you.
Alpha Wolf slides are mostly – though not exclusively – available for Gen 3 9mm pistols, and at that mostly GLOCK 19, GLOCK 17 and GLOCK 34, though some are available for Gen 3 GLOCK 26 pistols as well.
However, all you get is the slide, which is machined to accept standard sights. Adding a red dot optic and all slide components will be up to you. You can have LWD do it or install them yourself. Prices start around $175 but go up to $1500 for the slide alone; all other options cost extra.
That said, Saurez does offer RMR-ready slides. In fact, it’s their specialty, as they offer RMR-ready slides for Gen 3, 4 and 5 G17, G19, G26, G34 and G43 pistols. If a red dot rig is what you’re after, Suarez is one of the best foundations to start with.
The question is how complete you want it. The base slide can – depending on finish and options – be had for as little as $320, but Suarez will build the entire slide for you if desired including GLOCK factory barrel and parts, along with sights and the Trijicon of your choice.
Suarez even offers a match-grade barrel and recoil unit as an upgrade as well, including standard and a threaded barrel option.
You can also get a GLOCK slide from Brownell’s, who offer a range of GLOCK slides for GLOCK 9mm pistols including the GLOCK 43, 26, 19 and 17. Their offerings range from blank slides that look like little more than billeted steel that’s been cut a bit, to full-meal-deal slides with porting and RMR cuts. However, Brownells slides are for the DIYer; you’ll have to get the other bits and put the whole package together.
Unfortunately, you can’t order a slide from Taran Tactical…but you can order their entire John Wick Combat Master package. You’ll have to buy a GLOCK 34 Gen 3 – this package is not compatible with Gen 4 pistols due to the nature of the magazine release – and send it to them, but you get a complete overhaul of the gun in return.
This takes your standard, lame, totally boring and uninteresting 34 into a race gun that the Tactical Gods approve of.
Zev Technologies’ Dragonfly slide series is another wildly popular custom GLOCK slide for those looking to mod their Gen 3 plastic fantastic into something actually interesting. Zev machines the Dragonfly from billeted steel and apply coatings with a greater Rockwell hardness than GLOCK themselves do, so it’s going to stand up to a lifetime of abuse.
The Dragonfly series are all machined for RMR sights, as well as sight cuts for co-witness iron sights. Porting with some very smart-looking parallelogram windows are cut into the slide as well. The Dragonfly is available for the bigger 9mm GLOCKs, namely the 19, 17 and 34, but only up to Gen 3. Gen 4 and Gen 5 will require purchase of a different series of Zev slide, namely the Spartan for Gen 4 and Omen for Gen 5.
This isn’t a custom GLOCK slide per se, but rather a whole package offered by Wilson Combat. They’ll customize your GLOCK from the ground up, adding a host of refinements including a match grade barrel, frame services, refinishing and almost anything else you can think of.
If you want a GLOCK seen to by the best smiths in the business, they don’t really get any better.
Grey Ghost Precision is also a very popular choice among custom GLOCK slides. Grey Ghost slides – available for the 19, 17 and 43 – are machined from stainless steel and given the diamond-like coating you choose, with grey, black, FDE and bronze being available colors. Grey Ghost offers two patterns, either angled serrations or a honeycomb pattern. GLOCK 19 and GLOCK 17 slides by Grey Ghost have porting in the forward slide cuts, and feature an RMR plate for mounting an optic.
It’s up to you to add the components, and you’ll need donor bits from a Gen 3 or Gen 4 GLOCK. MSRP starts just under $420, but Grey Ghost’s build quality, reputation, and features ensure it will be money well-spent.
Isn’t this like putting a big wing spoiler on your Prius?
with ground effects and triple bladed wipers!
Oh! Man! I sure do miss those giant Euro-wipers! They were the bomb! Covered up tickets, salesman pamphlets and bad vehicle stickers!
These all seem pretty silly to me. Glocks aren’t pretty guns. They are just good sensible guns.
I don’t put thousands of dollars of silly bling on my Toyota Corolla either.
Except a Glock isn’t a Corolla.
A High-Point might be a Corolla.
A Glock is more like a Mercedes-Benz G63 6×6, that costs $18,000 used.
Or getting married to a loyal chunky woman and getting her a gym membership.
i made one fit from a hipoint. looks way better now and my paperwork doesn’t blow off the desk anymore.
The wilson combat one looks okay. When people try to visibly tacticool a glock it always comes out weird.
Finally I can Waifu my Glock!!!
If you just need your slide to mount an optic, jagerwerks.com will mill your own CZ/Sig/Glock slide for $125 and another $50 for cerakote. This is what I did for my first Glock. Anyway, just throwing it out there if asthetics is not your primary goal.
this work is only available for plastic cz’s. of which at least two of them have hammers.
Jaegerworks did an exceptional job on my slide. Had an RMR cut, front serrations, and some minor slide milling done. Still looks Glock, and at a reasonable price w quick turnaround.
got the battle cut from southwest precision. Dont care what others say I like my guns pimped out.
Or buy a less ugly gun.
why spend money on doctoring up a Glock when you can just get a solidly built CZ
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/12/jeremy-s/cz-usa-monday-sneak-peek-cz-custom-a01-ld-competition-gun/
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That’s simple- because you can get a CZ-based Tanfoglio Witness instead.
Uhh…cuz it’d still be a shitty CZ.
I’m going with a custom slide for my polymer80 GLOCK! 17. I wanted to pimp it out and get stupid with it.
Same here. I’ve got the new P940CL frame from Polymer 80. Putting all Zev components in it. Zev Glock 17 threaded barrel, Zev SOCOM slide, Fulcrum Pro trigger ect. Why? Because I can and I want to.
Buy a Glock. Check. Replace the trigger. Check. Replace the springs. Check. Replace the magazine. Check. Replace the slide. Check. Replace the barrel. Check. Add grip tape. Check.
Now tell me, why did you buy a Glock?
I didn’t… but some people are really into financial self-flagellation.
For the life of me, I can’t understand it, but there has never been a way to account for taste.
It’s rather like buying a Botstitch heavy-duty stapler (you know, the big clunky chrome ones) that takes standard staples and just. . . STAPLES, very reliably, and then installing a grip sleeve, texturing the handles, changing the springs, polishing the pushy-thingie that punches the staples out, putting in an aftermarket staple holder with a Rhodium-plated low-drag follower and a coated spring, and having the whole thing Cerakoted in Earth Tones, maybe with some cutouts milled out for lightess.
It ain’t gonna staple any better than the stock one did, but it’s gonna be a RAVE at backyard barbecues. . .
+1
Lipstick on a pig.
Love my ugly Glock just the way it is. 👍
Wow… I really regret not getting into the Glocktard accessory business.
Wow!
I didn’t see it in the article, but tell me, which one of these ornate, mystical/magical slides will increase the velocity of the bullets coming out of the muzzle? Which one will increase the muzzle energy? Which of these six will make the gun more practically accurate at confrontational distances? Which one increases the magazine capacity? Which one increases the reliability of the gun overall? Which one, particularly of the ones with big chunks milled out and missing, increases the cyclic rate without simultaneously increasing the likelihood of short-cycling and extraction/ejection difficulties due to decreased mass?
Does anyone remember ‘J. C. Whitney’? You know, the car-parts-catalog company that would sell you fuzzy dice, curb feelers, fender skirts, magical magnetic fuel-economy things to stick in your fuel line, engine-rebuild-in-a-can, and glowing-red-eyed-human-skull shift knobs?
Well, now we have ‘J. C. Whitney For Glocks.’ Quick, tell me on which page of the catalog I will find the hangy-down plastic testicles that attach to the under-slide rail!
JC Whitney, yup. Bought some motorcycle parts and pretty from them. What a waste of money. Tooling down the hiway and the “so much better then factory” rear sprocket shelled out. The oh so much better then OEM headlight lasted about two months. The one thing that did work was the oil filter adapter that let me use a cars filter.
I thought that slide was a stapler? Here’s the deal as far as I see it. The 1911 worked well as designed, custom parts and add ons started ftf, extract, broken parts and problems. If it works don’t fix it. And in my opinion you just can’t make a Glock look pretty with any aftermarket part.
ZEV ‘s are Not what they claim to be. The Slides are Machined Steel, But not Machined from Bar Stock. Zev Slides are machined sintered bar. I have a Zev Glock 17 Slide fail, albeit with a ported barrel, the slotted dragonfly peeled back like an orange.
I didn’t see 1 slide that was worthy going on my glock. did they all pay you to endorse those? because they lack innovation and flare
Sacrilege! You can’t improve the perfection!
I suppose if you define mediocrity as a form of perfection.
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