@Jayne may have some valuable input on this ( and maybe a conversion for sale) lol
I dunno about valuable, but I do own both. 2609 rounds through the conversion, 1770 rounds through the G44. About 95% of the rounds through the conversion have been standard/
subsonics with a can. Probably half of those rounds were on my Gen 2 G23 frame, the other half on this scary ghost frame... oooohhhh.... scary. Oddly it runs better on the poly80.
Conversion -
pros:
- works on a bunch of lowers, use the exact frame/trigger from your 'real' glock.
- threading didn't cost $180 extra
- all metal if you care about that sort of thing
- 10 and 15 round mags for the free states
- no out of battery firing like a G44 (see below and/or my other post about it)
cons:
- ammo picky. works OK with high quality stuff, sorta OK with most cheap stuff, chokes hard on random cheap stuff (can't get Agrula to work at all)
- weak extraction when you get a FTE, it can take tapping the brass out with a cleaning rod
- all mags are sized for the G17 version, so on the G19/23 like mine they hang out the bottom and look dumb
G44 -
pros:
- reliable (not M&P22 compact reliable, but good enough)
- mags encourage reload drills, they fit flush and seat mostly like real glock mags
cons:
- can fire out of battery, have had it happen to me a few times (sometimes with exciting results, I posted a thread about it on here)
- threading is optional, expensive and has a massive POI shift compared to unthreaded (in my book)
If I wasn't so lazy (and afraid to see anyone in real life) I would have pulled the Trijicon HDs off the conversion slide and sold it now that I have a threaded barrel for my G44. Originally I was going to keep the conversion to use as the backyard suppressor trainer, but when I saw a G44 barrel in stock a few weeks ago I jumped and other than the POI shift it works well enough that I don't need two threaded rimfire 'glocks'.
