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Will Beararms wrote:I have a Gen. 4 Glock 22 that I use without the back strap sleeve. It fits me better than any handgun I've ever owned in 24 years of shooting.

The main reason I mounted the "beavertail" backstrap on my 17 and 19 is that I have somewhat fleshy hands, and I have been bitten before by the slide on my wife's Gen3 19. The fit in my hand without the beavertail is good, but it still leaves the web of my hand a little bit vulnerable to slide bite.

We bought our first Glock, a Gen3 19, when the Gen3s had been on the market for a long time already. And we bought the four Gen4 pistols we have (a G17, a G19, and two G43s) five or six years after all the Gen4 models had hit the market. I want a G26, but I can wait until well after the Gen5 guns are out, and pick up a Gen4 at a reduced rate. The reasons I had postponed buying any Glocks for myself [the first G19 is my wife's] are (a) I didn't like the grip size on the Gen3 guns, and (b) being left-handed, I wanted an ambidextrous magazine release. The Gen4 guns fixed both problems for me.

The bottom line is that the guns are generally reliable up through Gen4 now. I like some of the new ideas incorporated into the Gen5 guns, but they don't matter enough to me to invest in replacing the Glocks I already own.