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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:09:13 AM EDT
[Last Edit: HecklerKac]
Glock 43x Bronze...paid $560 plus tax for the thing.
First time I've ever had buyers remorse from a gun....it was an impulse buy and I later found out it was not factory painted which helped with my regrets. I also had no idea that some glocks were made in US. Wtf? (Not a glock guy) Not sure who did the cerakote. What is your opinion of the paint job? 
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IN, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:09:47 AM EDT
[Last Edit: chase45]
[#1]
I have remorse for you after seeing that
 It looks like they did a good job atleast |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:10:31 AM EDT
[#2]
Looks good. Carry it and shoot it. I like FDE color.
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AL, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:11:10 AM EDT
[Last Edit: anymanusa]
[#3]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By chase45: I have remorse for you after seeing that It looks like they did a good job atleast Fpni |
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USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:12:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By chase45: I have remorse for you after seeing that It looks like they did a good job atleast Picture was taken with flash It looks pretty good in person...has kind of a gold look like tan eotechs. |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:12:19 AM EDT
[#5]
Seen worse
It can be fixed, not the end of the world Look at it this way...SHTF tomorrow, you could run for your areas warlord |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:12:27 AM EDT
[#6]
Looks like it feels like sandpaper.
Also. 
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:12:53 AM EDT
[#7]
Sell it for what you can. Buy more ammo and shoot that HK USPc more often.
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:12:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:12:59 AM EDT
[#9]
It's bronze, like you said.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:13:35 AM EDT
[#10]
It is kind of pimp
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:14:54 AM EDT
[#11]
FPNI, as always. Personally, don’t like Glocks and certainly don’t much care for gold ones, but your money, etc…...
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:15:16 AM EDT
[#12]
I like it.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:15:36 AM EDT
[#13]
$560 and cerakote doesn’t make it buyers remorse. Glock makes it buyers remorse. Feeling bad means you are normal. Learn from the mistake King.
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:16:02 AM EDT
[#14]
I would regret that too.
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:16:22 AM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KillerDyller: Looks like it feels like sandpaper. Also. https://i5.walmartimages.com/seo/Rust-Oleum-1920830-Specialty-Camouflage-Spray-Paint-6-Pack-Army-Green_7d992baf-f6ba-443f-8ea9-7e928505f7ce.ffc9d98d76fa32b36d57fc70ceace8e0.jpeg?odnHeight=768&odnWidth=768&odnBg=FFFFFF My thoughts exactly. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:16:31 AM EDT
[#16]
If you bought it to look at it then I can see your disappointment. Have you shot it?
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MI, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:16:36 AM EDT
[#17]
Originally Posted By HecklerKac: Glock 43x Bronze...paid $560 plus tax for the thing. First time I've ever had buyers remorse from a gun....it was an impulse buy and I later found out it was not factory painted which helped with my regrets. I also had no idea that some glocks were made in US. Wtf? (Not a glock guy) Not sure who did the cerakote. What is your opinion of the paint job? https://i.postimg.cc/ZY6Q10Ww/20240509-010020.jpg Do you have a third nipple? |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:17:45 AM EDT
[#18]
Glock has been assembling their guns for the US market in the US for literally decades now.
Lots of non-Glock finishes being applied by wholesalers and others. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:19:45 AM EDT
[#19]
It’s terrible. Send it to me for disposal.
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:22:11 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Action45]
[#20]
@HecklerKac Omaha Outdoors?
It’s fine OP, shoot it and enjoy. |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:24:07 AM EDT
[#21]
How did you find out it wasn't "factory painted"?
Are you sure it's not a Davidson's or Gun South or other distributor special? |
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USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:24:24 AM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JKinAZ: If you bought it to look at it then I can see your disappointment. Have you shot it? Not yet just got it, was planning to this weekend...hopefully it's an awesome shooter |
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USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:25:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Evil_Ed: How did you find out it wasn't "factory painted"? Are you sure it's not a Davidson's or Gun South or other distributor special? I couldn't find another one like it online...also from what I've researched the Glock 19x is the only factory painted gun |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:27:15 AM EDT
[#24]
Looks like the 19x..
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USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:29:54 AM EDT
[#25]
I like it. I'd buy that.
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:32:59 AM EDT
[#26]
Gayer than a circle jerk at a Judas Priest, Queen and WHAM music festival.....
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:34:34 AM EDT
[Last Edit: PTR32Sooner]
[#27]
What makes you think it was made in America? my 43X was manufactured in Austria (pretty sure but will double check when i get home
I love my 43X put it with the S15 mag and i have an unknown number of rounds through it without any hiccup |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:34:41 AM EDT
[#28]
Might look pretty good with some wear on it
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:37:37 AM EDT
[#29]
Bronze is a pretty cool gun color. No shame there, I’d carry it outside of the 43x not being my jam.
And correct, with Glock, the only factory-colored slide is the 19x with the coyote npvd finish. It is also the only Glock to get the coyote polymer frame aside from the very limited 17 Gen5 FR French-military version which wasn’t available in the US. Glock obviously offers a bunch of black slides with colored polymer in FDE and various green hues. Anything that ships with a colored slide that isn’t a 19x will be a distributor-exclusive paint. Not a bad thing at all as long as you know! I wish Glock would offer a full-size 17 in the 19x slide and frame colors. Probably be around the same time Magpul offers additional products in MCT polymer. 
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WA, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:38:42 AM EDT
[#30]
My dad used to say “live and learn my boy.” Well I’m 74 now and I’m not done learning yet. Don’t panic. Sleep on it. I’m sure you will have a solution to your dilemma.
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USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:39:43 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By nightstalker: Might look pretty good with some wear on it This. Carry it 5 years and put 10k through it. It’ll look fine. I understand the appeal of certain guns from an aesthetic perspective and I have more Glocks than 99.9% of people - but it’s a Glock. They’ve never won beauty contests. As long as it shoots well, and it will, you got a winner OP. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:40:03 AM EDT
[#32]
It was massively overpriced at any rate, especially for a non rail or Mos version.
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:40:14 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PTR32Sooner: What makes you think it was made in America? my 43X was manufactured in Austria (pretty sure but will double check when i get home Dealers can order either the Austrian or Smyrna GA guns from some distributors. The bulk of the Glocks in the US for the past few decades were assembled in GA. Before they changed the manufacturing process the Tenifer finish couldn't be done here I assumed that most people knew that. |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:40:21 AM EDT
[#34]
It's not even the MOS version. Gross!
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:41:04 AM EDT
[#35]
It looks gold. Gold is for pimps and hoodrats.
I got a G19x because I thought it was a tan gun. Nope it’s a tan frame with a freaking goofy ass gold slide. So I kept the frame, sold the slide, got a G47 slide and now have a cool looking unique (for a Glock) two tone FDE Glock You could acquire a black slide and follow that path? 
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:41:17 AM EDT
[#36]
I like it!
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:44:53 AM EDT
[#37]
That doesnt look like a homebrew paint job. Looks like a good job done on it. Run it.
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USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:45:22 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By S58DRIVER: Looks like the 19x.. It kind of does I should have taken the picture without flash it looks moreso like it 
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:46:02 AM EDT
[#39]
Looks decent.
I avoid non factory color applications, but I have stupidly spent money on far worse things gun related. Carry it around and enjoy it. At least you didn't buy a fake Walker .44 or something. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:46:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GraboidHunter: It's not even the MOS version. Gross! I know right...it'll only ever be a carry gun thouth and I don't usually put optics on those I sure paid MOS pricing though lol |
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USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:46:49 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PTR32Sooner: What makes you think it was made in America? my 43X was manufactured in Austria (pretty sure but will double check when i get home I love my 43X put it with the S15 mag and i have an unknown number of rounds through it without any hiccup Says USA right on the slide...all my other glocks say Austria |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:47:27 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Evil_Ed]
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HecklerKac: I couldn't find another one like it online...also from what I've researched the Glock 19x is the only factory painted gun Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HecklerKac: Originally Posted By Evil_Ed: How did you find out it wasn't "factory painted"? Are you sure it's not a Davidson's or Gun South or other distributor special? I couldn't find another one like it online...also from what I've researched the Glock 19x is the only factory painted gun "Factory painted" as in as sent by the Glock factory and sold by Glock, yeah. However there are distributor specials that are sold as "factory guns" that are painted. Talo, Davidson's, Gun South, etc etc etc have custom factory guns done for them all the time. It could be a distributor special. It may or may not say on the box. Davidson's likes putting stickers on theirs, don't know if Gun South or other distributors do. Edit - took me literally 10 seconds of "glock 43x distributor exclusive" to find it. Really? You couldn't find it? 
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:47:52 AM EDT
[#43]
Take it down to the hood get the switch added and sell it as a blinged out Glock
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:48:06 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wolfy42: Do you have a third nipple? 
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:50:44 AM EDT
[#45]
I like that color in carry guns, it blends with all my khakis.
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:52:05 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By IT_Cowboy: It is kind of pimp If Idi Amin or Yassar Arafat or Saddam Hussein or Barack Obama had a Glock, it would look like that one. |
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:53:05 AM EDT
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ME, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 9:57:28 AM EDT
[#48]
Is the only issue that it’s not factory painted? Does the paint cause the gun to not function properly or something?
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Posted: 5/9/2024 10:00:34 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PTR32Sooner: What makes you think it was made in America? my 43X was manufactured in Austria (pretty sure but will double check when i get home I love my 43X put it with the S15 mag and i have an unknown number of rounds through it without any hiccup 
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PA, USA
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Posted: 5/9/2024 10:04:58 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Nickel_Plated]
[#50]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HecklerKac: I couldn't find another one like it online...also from what I've researched the Glock 19x is the only factory painted gun Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HecklerKac: Originally Posted By Evil_Ed: How did you find out it wasn't "factory painted"? Are you sure it's not a Davidson's or Gun South or other distributor special? I couldn't find another one like it online...also from what I've researched the Glock 19x is the only factory painted gun Glock doesn't do "factory painted" guns. All Glock frames are molded in plastic that is that actual color, it's not just paint over a standard black frame. And they only offer a pretty limited selection of standard colors as far as I've ever seen. Black, tan, I think there was a brown, OD green, field green? pretty sure there are 2 greens, gray, blue and red for training models that could be converted to live firing frames with some parts swapping if you can get one, and I think a few rare clear ones for display/armorer training models that I imagine could also be converted to live fire if you really wanted to and could find one. Same with their slides, the few colored slide options they offer are a PVD finish of the appropriate color. If you were to scratch that finish, it would be just the silver steel underneath. If you scratch your slide, it will be the original black finish under the paint. Same with your frame. That's the thing I don't like about Ceracoated polymer guns. Once it starts to wear, the black finish showing through ends up looking really cheap and cheesy. The "finish" on a factory frame never wears since it's just the same color all the way through the plastic no matter how deep you scratch it. And they don't generally color match so perfectly between the slide and frame. So if it's some weird color and it's perfectly matched across the whole gun, pretty safe bet it's some 3rd party "custom" Ceracote job. Nothing wrong with it. If you're fine with Ceracote and like the color, enjoy. I don't care for it though. When in doubt always double check the SKU#. GlockStore is usually pretty good at showing all the factory options and their SKUs to compare against. |
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