Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Feb. 13, 2009 is the post where I listed some of the Glock parts I ordered for spares, if anyone is interested.

As I said, the two parts Ive personally seen are the recoil spring assembly and the trigger return spring. So, naturally, I have a half dozen of each,

I’d get spares of every spring, every part small enough to be lost, a couple extra sights, and maybe one barrel and extractor for every two or three guns. Those last two parts will be the most expensive.

In addition to the parts, buy the book. The Complete Glock Reference Guide is the best book I’ve seen. The amusing, but unecessary, torture tests at the back of the book are worth the price of admission.

For our needs, we shoot the 9mm Glocks and all three sizes (full, compact and mini) take, mostly, the same parts. Some parts do interchange between the carious calibers but when you do that youre looking at two different size frames (9/40 and 10/45) which will have many parts that wont swap between large-frame and small-frame.

I appreciate people asking my opinion on the spare parts but I cant really give a detailed list because no one is going to agree with it….its sort of a personal thing. But, as I said, I went with a an extra of every spring, recoil assemblies, extra sights, mag release, a couple slide releases and that sort of thing. Contact the guys at Lone Wolf and get their opinion, they probably have more experience on this topic than a lot of people.