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Originally Posted by Glockerfella
I bought a first gen 17 a few months ago with the intentions of hard chroming the slide and/or polishing the barrel, slide stop, and pins. Buuuut this gun has not been shot very much due to the lack of wear on the top of the barrel like I have on my 19 and 26. It has a few small wear places on the slide but nothing serious. The serial number doesn't have three letters and three numbers, it has two letters and three numbers, AW xxx . I dated it on the sticky provided on one of the forums here and it was made in September 1986. My question is: should I or shouldn't I make any modifications to it? I can't imagine it is anything special, but just my luck if I were to alter it in some way I would discover shortly after that I depreciated some super rare firearm and that it is now worthless.
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Well, it really depends on how much wear there is, and whether you have the original box and accessories. If you got everything and it's hard to see the wear, I think you'd be making a mistake.
If the box is missing and/or the wear is pretty bad, I think you're just helping it into the "shooter" category a little farther than it already is. I shoot both of my first-generation G-17s (even though one of them is an early "L"), because they're worn and don't have the original boxes or papers...
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