New Glock Gen 5 Model 21 MOS 45 ACP Review

the Glock model 21 gen 5. let's check it out [Music] [Music] thank you in 1982 Glock introduced its first pistol and it was the model 17 and nine millimeter in 1990 they introduced the model 21 which was in 45 ACP this is considered the big boy I mean it's a big firearm it's the largest in the Glock line has 13 plus one for 45 and 15 plus one for 10 millimeter and so it requires a fairly thicker grip with the Gen 3 and the Gen 4 had the finger grooves now they've gone to the Gen 5. guys I've been waiting on this pistol for a while ever since Gen 5 was introduced I was really excited about the model 21 and the model 20. now if you have really large hands you're going to like that big full-size grip of the 21 gen 3 gen 4. with the Gen 5 with the removal of the finger grooves with the flared mag well this makes it a much more ergonomic pistol for those guys with average or actually a little larger than average hands it's a big gun but another big change with the Gen 5 series and the 21 and 20 is that it's MOS compatible and this gives you the ability to put a red dot on your Model 21 or your model 20 right out of the box guys a lot of people talk about how Glock has not innovated since 1982 but there have been a number of changes and from Gen 4 to Gen 5 there were over 20 different design changes with these pistols just to make it better and guys just to be honest I like Glock I want it to stay a Glock and guys we want to give a big thank you to Glock for providing the model 21 Gen 5 for this review this is going to be a keeper foreign Model 21 Gen 5 and this is Mos version 45 ACP 13 plus one the 10 millimeter version it looks exactly like it it just is in 10 millimeter and it holds 15 plus one and right here we have a gen 3 and this is the model 21 there are a number of differences between this and the Gen 4 and there are 20 additional differences between the Gen 5 and the Gen 4. and so a lot of people feel like that this silhouette just hasn't changed and really it hasn't that much but the big difference is in the internals one of the things about a Model 21 or a 20 is there some things you need to consider before you purchase something like this a lot of people buy these guns and they just feel like they're really big and the grip is Big compared to the Glock 17 or 19 this is the largest frame that Glock makes and it's thicker and I think really Glock has addressed some of that with this shorter frame I mean let's face it guys it is what it is if you want 13 plus 1 and 45 or 15 plus one in 10 millimeter you're gonna have to have a little bit of a larger frame now let's go and make sure the gun is unloaded we're going to drop our magazine check the chamber and it's empty the magazines have been changed with the Gen 5 series with the orange follower a little bit larger base plate has an angle here at the front to make this easier to pull out and it has the ambidextrous mag release features also we have a flared mag well it just gives you a little bit more ease in concerting those magazines you can see the lift right here it's not obtrusive it's not large but man you know in your hand it gives you just a little more especially with larger hands it gives you just a little more gripping surface kind of Nestles it into your hand the texturing has been changed a little bit over the Gen 4 but pretty much the same style design big thing is the finger grooves you know the removal of the finger grooves to me really makes a huge difference with this pistol because the grip is already large and that just makes it larger and so with the removal of the finger grooves that is a huge plus and guys honestly that is one of the biggest things I was excited about about them coming out with the Gen 5 pistol of course you have your front slide serrations which are new from Glock it has the Marksman Barrel which has little more aggressive rifling it's still the polygonal lens and grooves like it's been in the past and then it has a small little Crown here at the end to protect your muzzle which should give you just better accuracy the mag release is the same as the Gen 4 it's a little bit enlarged and you can reverse it to the other side you'll see that it does have a slide stop on the right side so it does have ambidextrous slide stops that's another Plus for the Gen 5. sights steel glock sites plastic and of course there's a bazillion up grade you can order these with night sights installed but one big plus here is it's an MOS version and that's one thing that the Gen 4 and 3 did not have was a Model 21 or 20 with the Optics cuts it does come with all the adapter plates so you don't have to order them special order them which seems to be a trend here lately with companies you know where you order the plate with this you get it all together if you want to change them out you can do it and so to me that's a great plus now here we have the Gen 3 and this isn't the model 21. there are some vast differences between these two and of course obviously the finger grooves here we have the finger grooves now one thing I do want to mention I'm going to be bringing a number of guns in here and all of them have been safety checked this also has your standard 13 round magazine it has the original black follower and just the standard floor plate and it has some reinforcement here which all of Glock magazines have still reinforced bodies inside one thing that Glock started doing with the Gen 4 is including an additional magazine to the extra mag so now you with each pistol you get three magazines and I really like that because additional Magazine's great but obviously three is better and the Glock magazines are fairly reasonable you know around the thirty dollar and less range one of the reasons why the grips on the Glock tend to be a little bit larger is they're using polymer magazines with a steel insert and this polymer is fairly thick compared to a standard steel magazine and this is just a Sig macro X magazine just for demonstration but you can get a lot more rounds in a metal mag because you can make them so much thinner and with the Glock mags they're just a little bit thicker and then you have that steel insert and so it just adds a little bit of width and length to the grip now for comparison I have one of the model 45s which is in millimeter it is a Gen 5 as well and I want to give you an idea of nine millimeter versus 45 or 10. one of the big things is the grip distance here this is a lot thinner you have a lot thicker body on the model 21 or the model 20. the slide is a lot thicker in fact consider really thicker you could see it right here and so it's going to give it a little bit more mass when shooting with the recoil coming back it just has more slide Mass with the 45 you know it's definitely a more narrow frame obviously this is more of the Glock 19 size as far as length so it's actually going to be a shorter length on the slide and this particular one is not an MOS which I do have some MOS version Glocks in the Gen 5 to me with red dots the way they're going it really is the best option and if you don't like it you don't have to use it it does have a polymer cover over the slide Cuts but both have front and rear cocking serrations this one does have night sights installed one thing too is is the difference between this area and this area and this is the biggest that really especially for Shooters with the web of your hand to the tip of your finger and so it's a lot shorter on the model 45 and guys to be honest just if you think that your Glock nine millimeter is kind of Blocky pick up a Model 21 or a 20. and you'll feel like that this is really thin I mean it really kind of brings it down but you've got the power of 45 and 10 millimeter and so you know there's going to be some sacrifices but you know that's where this 21 really shines is in the caliber they've improved the trigger and some of the functioning of the trigger the trigger bar some of those things internal again here we have probably a tenifer now Glock typically made their teneifer slides it was a finish that impregnated the metal it was extremely hard with the New Gen 5 this is an ndlc coating which is like a diamond like nitride diamond-like coating and it's impregnates the metal it gives it really hard surface and it's very corrosion resistant so that's one of the things that Glock has done over the years has had a really good a finish on their slides but also on all the major metal Parts they are also in DLC coated here with the original gen 3 no slide Cuts or the Gen 4. they've retained the pretty much the same one slot picatinny rail and you know squared off trigger guard I mean guys you know they're very similar in a lot of ways but it's the small differences that really count now here with the Glock model 21 Gen 4 and the Gen 3 it's a three pin design so you have two pins here one that actually holds in your locking block and your trigger and then you have a rear pin back here that holds in your your ejector housing with the Gen 5 we just have one pin and it actually fits all the parts together your trigger your locking block and everything and then we have the pin at the back and that's a new design with the Gen 5. now here on the Gen 5 you'll notice that we have these bevels and these cuts and this just gives it better ease for inserting into holsters and it just kind of cuts that corner here on the Gen 4 and the Gen 3 is pretty much the same it's pretty blocky on the front with a slight bevel but guys whether you have the Gen 3 Gen 4 or Gen 5 they all fit into the same holsters and that's one big plus and there are Parts compatibility between all of these and there are proprietary Parts between all of these but one great thing about the Glock and I mentioned earlier is if something were to go wrong I can fix it you know even the barrel I mean they have all the parts it's very simple to break these down replace parts or for that matter to add upgrades that's one of the big reasons why the Glocks have been so popular because a lot of people take them from the standard design and they completely change them but because of the way they're designed it's easy to do that and guys there are still tons of gen 3 Glocks out there that people are still carrying I have a number of gen 3 Glocks there's nothing wrong with them they're great guns these are just improvements over the original design of gin one Gen 2 obviously gen 3. and so the Gen 5 is just the culmination of a lot of different internal and a few external improvements again that just make this a better pistol there are guys out there that love the finger grooves and they're continuing to make the Gen 4 I believe the Gen 3 has now been discontinued so if you really love the finger grooves the Gen 4 is going to make an excellent handgun you're just not going to be able to get it in the MOs versions if you're going to a Red Dot site the New Gen 5S are going to be the way to go unless you want to go and have custom slide Cuts put into your pistol which you know obviously there's a lot of companies that do that now being an MOS you have four additional adapter plates to fit any optic that you can come up with one of the things that we try to do is go ahead and shoot it as you get it out of the box I do add red dots to my pistols a lot of times even when I'm doing a review but we just decided to wait because you know you're getting it this way there's a lot of advantages to this not just the MOs and so this does give you those plates directly so you can change them right out it does come with the screws as well and an allen wrench or torque wrench Torx wrench to be able to tighten that down it also includes two of your MBS or modular back straps and both have the extended beaver tail and you can see it definitely gives you a little more added surface that kind of comes up and gives you like more again of like the 1911 has the beaver tail and a lot of different guns now the companion to the model 21 is the model 30 and this is the compact 45 ACP it holds 10 plus one and I like to have an extension right here because honestly this is a very short grip on it it's not quite as small as your standard like model 19. and that's really where this Falls in between the 19 and the 26 as far as size comparison but it's definitely a lot lot thicker and really looking forward to when they come out with the Gen 5. they've only released the model 21 and model 20 right now now on the Gen 5 it does have a firing pin and trigger spring enhancements just to make it more reliable and again that's something that you're not going to see also the Chamber of the barrel The Marksman Barrel has been tightened some just to give it again better accuracy and the barrel is 4.61 inches in overall length Glock is known for having a little bit of a mushy trigger and we had the trigger shoe right here of the blade and this is your safety you can see it in the back kind of popping up and if I hit it in any other direction it's just going to rest on the back of the frame so you have to have a full pad on the trigger and as we pull it we have take up right to about here a little bit of resistance and then your brake it's not all that great it's not very crisp but it's much better than the earlier gen models and then here we have reset right here so an improved trigger but it's still a Glock trigger and now that they have their enhanced triggers you know that may be something that you want to go for because it's a different configuration check trigger pull weight with our alignment trigger gauge and brown ales five pounds 3.4 ounces you want to slide on that trigger five pounds 3.1 ounces weight on the model 21 gen 5. one pound 11.4 ounces I want to give a big thank you to fiocchi for sponsoring our ammo all made in the USA number one supplier of ammunition in the country also we love our Lula loaders our maglulas in you know these fit the nine millimeter they fit 45 they fit any of your double stack magazines so they're very versatile it's not just for one type magazine and they load them fast [Applause] man I've been waiting on the Gen 5 for a while in the model 21 and 20 of course with the Optics ready we just went ahead and chose to shoot it as is but 13 plus 1 and 45 15 plus 1 and 10 millimeter but what I love is this reduction of the grip the finger grooves are gone this was a really large grip and I've got the other gen 3 and Gen4 and they're just big guns now if you are a big guy and you have big hands a lot of people love them but to me the average person this is a little bit large with the Gen 5 they've really trimmed it down and that's the one thing I've been waiting on the front cocking serrations are great again the Optics ready a lot of the internal improvements including the Marksman Barrel have been good but man there's something about 45 if it's just sweet and having it in the Glock I mean it's a big gun and it's coming out pretty fast 45 ACP is just a large bullet so it does have some recoil but once you get used to it and you get in the groove this thing shoots really well this is a man's gun if you got the moxie in 10 millimeter this is sweet all right for disassembly dropper magazine make sure the gun is unloaded first thing you want to do is pull the trigger that deactivates the striker pulled back about an eighth of an inch on your slide pull down on these two takedown tabs on either side and the barrel comes or slide comes right off we have our recoil spring system which is dual it's captive and it is metal and that's a big plus for the Gen 5. with the Gen 3 it is a polymer guide rod with a single spring and so this is actually going to Aid in Recoil control your gen 4S also had a double recoil spring a little bit different but this is going to give you more Improvement on recoil now we're going to remove our Barrel again this is the Marksman Barrel improved rifling more aggressive slight little Target Crown chamber has been tightened just a little bit just to give you better accuracy of course the bottom it's pretty much your standard Glock and of course here with the ambidextrous features here it just kind of changed things from the Gen 4 and gen 3. in fact we did an extensive video on comparing the Gen 3 Gen 4 and gen 5. I'll have it annotated right here but it really goes through a lot of the things they change the liking block setup is one thing the way that your little bar that actually your locking bar that holds the slide right here with your takedown tabs ambidextrous slide stops a lot of different things have been changed the trigger bar has a different configuration I mean there are a lot of differences between the Gen series and so you know it's not just a few Cosmetics outside and guys it's simple easy to do that's all you need to do to fill the strips We're going to drop our Barrel back in put in our recoil spring and guide rod and we're going to put it right back over the slide and it's that simple it's done and also I have a video on how to lubricate by the Glock official instructions and what you need to do to maintain your Glock and I'll have that video annotated above as well all right the manufacturer suggested retail is 675 dollars of course market price you'll be able to get it less so this is a fairly new gun so typically after it kind of gets in the market the prices start to come down a little bit and that'll be whether it's the model 21 or the model 20. as far as pros and cons first off it's 13 plus one a 45 ACP or 15 plus one of 10 millimeter improved grip big time and I really like that they've removed the finger grooves and the mag well and the front cocking serrations definitely the MOS is a big plus improved Marksman Barrel improved trigger improved internals a numbered different things have been changed to make this actually even more safe the ndlc coding is really nice very well done honestly it's more reminiscent to me of the older design Glocks with the Ten of her finish but it should be very corrosion resistant and wear resistant The Marksman Barrel is going to give you just more performance a little bit of a crown on the barrel and of course you get three magazines with the Gen fives which is nice and of course you have your back strap so it has a lot of pluses negatives it still has a fairly thick grip and that's just what it is it is what it is I mean this is going to handle all your different magazines gen 3 Gen 4 and obviously gen 5S are improved but you know it's going to be very compatible and it is a full large gun but it's definitely reliable and it has that Glock tradition behind it it's very simple and so really a couple of Kinds but honestly it's trade-offs and that's just the way it is with anything in life I mean you know you have trade-offs in life and because this is a larger caliber it's just going to be a larger gun so this pistol is so established there's not really any cons that aren't just kind of out there of you just grabbing the pistol and saying that's a large pistol you know I'll go for something else honestly this is one of the best 45 or 10 millimeter guns out on the market with that kind of capacity and just the reliability so while they look very similar and a Glock is a Glock it's a Glock and that's what makes it so cool because it's going to be so reliable guys I've always been a big fan of the model 21 and the model 20 both in gen 3 and gen 4. but you know the grip was always big you knew when you grabbed it it was large and you know guys with big hands love it most of us with average or even above average hands have found that this is a really thick grip and it's really great to see Glock removing those finger grooves flaring that magazine well and making this a much more shootable option plus being MOS you have that red dot ready you've got the adapter plates it's ready to go and so it's really exciting to see Glock bringing out the Gen 5 plus all the Gen 5 upgrades and again a big thank you to Glock for sending the model 21 MOS Gen 5 for this review and guys if you're looking at a 45 or even a 10 millimeter this is a great gun to check out be strong be of good courage God Bless America long live the republic foreign [Music] foreign but it's just a little more aggressive is it right now these will be fairly difficult to get I don't know that I don't have any idea about that and so for the past 30 years years the years

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Length: 25min 12sec (1512 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 26 2023