GREY GHOST M17
We’re not sure any of us ever expected Big Army to swap out their old Beretta M9 pistols, and we certainly didn’t expect Sig Sauer to bring home the win. And yet, back in January of 2018 the Modular Handgun System trials came to an end, and the M17 was officially born.
Of course, the M17 has been covered extensively ever since, with Glock gripers saying it was only about money, and a whole slew of now-civilian-market former-MHS competitors made it to the buying masses. We now have more inexpensive, lightweight, and reliable plastic fantastic 9mms on the market than at any other point in history. But we digress.
From the first minute of the M17 announcement, there have been companies modifying slides to add lightening cuts and serrations and other details, but the first company to bring out a from-scratch slide was Tacoma-based Grey Ghost Precision. Just as with their Glock slides, GGP is milling from their own blanks, to their own specifications.
