Part of my original request and due to concerns with LWD parts I told them that before sending out my slide that I wanted to be contacted. She stated she would let the gunsmith know and that he will make the determination when he looks at my parts. At that point I compiled all of the web sites and sent them to the LWD customer service representative and stated I wanted a refund on the barrel as it seemed to be well known that there were quality control issues with their products and that I didn't want to become a beta tester. In my queries I found quite a few others who were experiencing barrel fitment, chamber, spec issues, etc. So the waiting began and I started researching LWD and issues associated with them. At this point I was a little irritated as they had no issues charging me $550+ in parts, but were in no hurry to get my customer satisfaction issues resolved. I shipped it back to LWD on March 6th and asked what I could expect as the normal turnaround time and was told 2-4 weeks. I contacted Lone Wolf to get assistance with this and was given an RMA to ship back on my own dime. Please provide any insight if this is par for the course and if I made an expensive mistake. I will update with how they want to proceed to resolve this. I've reached out to LWD to figure out how to get this resolved and will have to take something else for my trip next week. Is this the norm for Lone Wolf Distributing or am I an isolated incident? I was already irritated enough that I had to spend $30 just to keep their unsightly logos off of my slide and barrel, but was not expecting to run into all of these issues. Upon closer inspection I can see that the barrel hood is too long to fit up into the slide: Next is when I came to the realization that I hit a big snag with the Lone Wolf Threaded Barrel and discovered that it doesn't fit the slide. I found that I can still get the FP safety to bind somewhat and decide to look at it after I put the gun back together and dry fire it a bit. I put together the striker assembly and placed it in the striker channel, depressed the FP safety and put in the slide plate. I moved on to assemble the extractor next and found it to be a tight fit in the slide, but instead of modifying it made the judgement call to allow that to break in with some rounds down range after I finished assembling it. I had read about difficulty installing the Striker Channel Liner so I attempted that next and found it to be rather straight forward. After some 800 grit and some elbow grease I could finally get the FP safety in and able to move freely without rubbing/binding. I couldn't verify with the stock piece but believe that it had a much deeper bevel around the firing pin safety and wondered if I should be concerned about any issues with reliability/function. My thought was that it was a cheap part and preferred to make that smaller than modifying the slide. Being that I just sent my G27 to be refinished I couldn't swap it out with the stock Glock firing pin safety so I decided to start polishing the Lone Wolf piece. The first problem I ran into was that the firing pin safety didn't fit in the slide channel as the tolerances were a bit tight. I liked the bead blasted finish even though my plan was to refinish it in Isonite once it is broken in. I was hoping to use this for a trip the first week of March, but ran into several snags when I received my shipment.įirst impressions was that the slide assembly and parts seemed to be well made and that the milling was sharp. So I decided (and now regret) to build a complete slide/upper with Lone Wolf Distributor parts. For several months I've been trying to find a place to buy the original Glock slide and barrel combination and everyone was still out of stock. Fast forward 5 years of ownership and enjoyment of several Glocks I decided I wanted to build up a Glock 20 as a trail side arm. Some of the students in the classes I attended couldn't even remember when they cleaned their Glocks last. "As a long term 1911 shooter I finally came around to my senses after attending several tactical training schools only to find myself running more maintenance that rounds down range. This ordeal started on March 3 of this year and wanted to post it as it was censored on the other "Glock Forum" and want to make sure that people have detailed information to make sound decisions and not end up like I did:
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