If you followed the SHOT Show 2017 coverage here or on RECOILweb, you may have spotted some of the initial buzz about Grey Ghost Precision's new Glock slides earlier this year. Since the unveiling of prototypes at SHOT, the company has announced a strategic partnership with Aero Precision. GGP's design and engineering are now being teamed up with the manufacturing capabilities of Aero Precision to produce complete, drop-in-ready slides — just install your preferred sights and hit the range.

The Grey Ghost Precision Glock slides are being machined from scratch in two patterns for Gen 3 or Gen 4 G17 and G19 models. The V1 slide features angled front serrations with additional porting, while the V2 is a non-ported design with a honeycomb-style Geoscale texture. The slides are available with or without a RMR/red dot cutout.

Each complete GGP slide also includes a GGP match barrel, with optional threading for use with a suppressor or compensator. The tighter tolerances of this combination are said to increase accuracy substantially compared to a stock setup. Tyler Hutch, a former Marine Corps Scout Sniper and current SWAT officer, had this to say after putting 1,500 rounds through a GGP-equipped Glock 17:

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“Typically with an OEM Glock, you'll get some variation, amplified by distance. I'm not trashing the stockers, either – Glock builds one hell of a firearm, but GGP has taken your high school Chevy Nova and supercharged it. Variation is not something I observed with the Grey Ghost, in fact it made all my own shooter errors that much more noticeable.

Anyone who has spent time slinging lead and hate in the desert knows that with temperatures around the 102 mark, plus the projection of hundreds and thousands of rounds, things tend to get wobbly, loose, melt or just fall apart. I realized the difference that grabbed my attention – and that was the fact that the GGP had ZERO slide wobble.

Even my stock 17 which had been sitting forsaken in the shade held a notable lack of tolerance… I've got to break the news to my wife that I have to buy a new slide.” – Tyler Hutch

For more information on the Grey Ghost Precision Glock slides and barrels, go to GreyGhostPrecision.com. The complete Glock slides can be purchased through AeroPrecisionUSA.com.

UPDATE 1/18/18: Grey Ghost has also released a pair of new slides for the popular single-stack CCW-oriented Glock 43 — you can check them out here: SPG43 V1 and SPG43 V2.

The new Grey Ghost Precision SPG43 V2 slide for the G43.

Written by Patrick McCarthy