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Glock's famed old-school long-slide competition version of the G17 has finally been updated to the company's Gen 5 standard. 
 
One of the models that has been around since almost the beginning, the first Glock 17L, or "Glong" pistols – so named because they have an extended 6-inch barrel and corresponding 8.9-inch slide rather than the standard model's 4.5/7.3-inch barrel/slide – was introduced as a first-generation gun back in 1988. Moving up to Gen 2 in 1990 and Gen 3 in 1998, the pistol has been stuck in a world where Boyz II Men and Chumbawamba were still in the Top 40, largely replaced by the similar but more practical/tactical G34. 
 
Well, that is until last week, when the G17L leaped over the Gen 4 standard and went right to Gen 5, complete with a Glock MOS optics plate cut at the 2024 NRA Annual Meetings in Dallas. 
 

The Glock G17L Gen5 MOS pistol
Other updates include the new-style Glock Marksman Barrel (GMB), a better trigger, and the deletion of the oft-detested finger grooves on the grip, replaced by the company's more modular grip frame that accommodates a series of interchangeable backstraps. (Photos: Don Summers/Guns.com)
The Glock G17L Gen5 MOS pistol
The G17L Gen5 MOS pistol comes standard with an ambidextrous slide stop lever and reversible magazine catch, which is something southpaws should like. Also, note the forward slide serrations. 
The Glock G17L Gen5 MOS pistol
Overall length is 9.45 inches, while weight is 25.4 ounces with a loaded magazine. For reference, this gives it a sight radius of well over 8 inches, which is longer than the G34. Plus, the increased slide mass helps eat up recoil. 
 
The Glock G17L Gen5 MOS pistol
Note the flared magwell.
The Glock G17L Gen5 MOS pistol
And deletion of the finger grooves, replaced by a straight grip. 

  
Article by Chris Eger and Alexander Reville, Photos and Video by Don Summers, Video Editing by Ben Philippi.

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