so.... $150+ for grip shit, eleventy billion hours with a soldering iron fucking your polymer frame's grip up doing "stippling"..... plus all the time and cost in parts you replace in a glock to make it shoot "good" (Disconnectors and all that other jazz I keep hearing about including aftermarket barrels and other crap).
or, just buy a FN or HK and fucking slay bodies out the gate, good to go.
Did I mention I've got easily over 200K Rounds thereabouts on stock everything minus the front sight post replaced to a tritium Big Dot on the Expert? What's worn? Some holster wear, and the chamber block on the barrel is effectively chromed on top due to repeated slide contact.
pew pew x100,000. (FIFY)
Edited in bold... Only disadvantage of the stock sights on the Tactical or Expert is that they're target sights, so not the hottest for low light use, although adequately functional with a taclight providing downrange illum. The Expert would have Trijicon adjustable sights, but Shooters in Columbus was a box of rocks about ordering them (ordered for 4 months, they came in and the store sold them out from underneath the standing order they had to even get the fuckers) so I went with what was available at the "late" English Range FBGA Rifle/Pistol club.