point of milling a pistol slide?

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What is the point of lightening a pistols slide? Head Down here in GA is now doing this to glocks for $400 or you can just straight up buy one for $800. It looks cool to me, but I guess I don't get what the weight reduction cuts do.

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cycle's faster for competition...supposedly. I would say it's mostly for looks.
 

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Also, pics don't work...at least for me
 
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One of my instructor busied had his G19 slide opened up with a giant window across the top. He says he can be on target much faster. I am too slow to notice a difference either way so it would be 100% wasted on me.
 

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What is the point of lightening a pistols slide? Head Down here in GA is now doing this to glocks for $400 or you can just straight up buy one for $800. It looks cool to me, but I guess I don't get what the weight reduction cuts do.

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Mostly just looks, IMHO. But in certain circumstances could reduce muzzle jump for competitive shooters. I'm not really a fan, just because it would allow easier ingress of dirt or other obstructions. And that example from HDP looks awful. The new Agency Arms pistols are very well executed, but still not for me. I just have a hard time justifying spending as much or more on slide work as you spend on the initial pistol purchase.
 

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Mostly just looks, IMHO. But in certain circumstances could reduce muzzle jump for competitive shooters. I'm not really a fan, just because it would allow easier ingress of dirt or other obstructions. And that example from HDP looks awful. The new Agency Arms pistols are very well executed, but still not for me. I just have a hard time justifying spending as much or more on slide work as you spend on the initial pistol purchase.
I like agency too, but they are pricier.
 
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If the cuts did not penetrate completely through the metal, it would be better IMHO. You would still have the look of a sculpted slide without the complete openings to get FOD into the works.
 
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I think we're just talking about removing material from the slide, not cutting ports into the barrel.
still.... sculpted or engraved... no big deal (cept on a glock.. just like putting lipstick on a pig)

comped or not, you are still going to have that flash.
 

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You probably experience a little less muzzle flip since you have less mass sliding back and forth.
 

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You probably experience a little less muzzle flip since you have less mass sliding back and forth.
That's pretty much the idea. But most competitive shooters also handload + swap recoil springs to produce minimum recoil and keep the gun as flat as possible. Lightening the slide alone is really just part of the equation.
 
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I would think that if you lighten up the slide that you would have to balance it out with a lower power recoil spring.