I bought 2 of these and they showed up today. In my opinion it’s the best one available for the Dagger although I have to admit its the only one I’ve ever tried.
Why did I buy this one and why do I think its the best?
Simple…
First, the front alleviates the sharp edge at the front bottom of the Daggers grip and extends the grip just a tad lower. That helps tremendously with big hands. Although the Dagger feels amazing I’ve never liked how that one spot feels on my pinky finger when I grip the gun. It just feels too sharp to me.
Second, from an aesthetics standpoint I’ve always hated the look of the cutouts at the bottom of the grip to grasp the magazine from. I’ve never had nor have I heard anyone else having mags stick in the dagger. Even with polymer mags that dont have a metal lining I’ve never experienced them bulging or swelling and failing to drop either loaded or empty. Its a great design to include it into the Dagger, but I personally feel it was a fix for a problem that never existed thus causing an ugly grip. This flared magwell adapter fills those notches and makes the gun look so much better.
So not only does it make the gun feel better. It makes it look better. In addition to those features its still a flared magwell and will give you all the benefits those provide like faster mag changes. Tacticool points with the peasants next to you at the range. Picking up more chicks. Increased self esteem and so on and so forth.
I’m not trying to sell this but I’d like others with more experience than me to get one of these and weigh in with their opinions. @mattbbb14 has tons of cool Daggers and is even a pro with awesome pictures. I’d absolutely respect his opinion on this and I know he could make it look better than mine on some of his builds and his awesome photographs that he posts.
I appreciate your compliments about my collection. I’m not personally a huge fan of magwells on compact guns(large hands). My only reservation would be that it’s 3d printed instead of an injection molded part. There is another company with an injection molded offering that is supposed to start shipping on Monday I believe. POLYMER MAGWELL FOR PSA DAGGER COMPACT
That one is interesting. Same features as this one. It fills in the voids on each side at the bottom of the grip and it also smooths out that sharp edge at the bottom front of the grip. That’s the only reason I tried the one above to begin with. Thanks for that link.
I get it. I put a Pearce mag floor on a Glock mag and that lip on the Dagger grip front results in a mismatch of the lines. I put a bunch of black athletic tape on the mag extension to make the two blend but also thought about grinding off that little flare or lip or whatever you call it. Fortunately, PSA has a frame on sale with what amounts to a free laser sight so I might have to get another frame to butcher and experiment with.
Btw, your mag well looks great and I see it works with both Glock and the Magpul mags. I found that the Pmags have a thicker mag floor with different edge contour so these don’t fit in a mag well same way the Glock mags do. Another reason to favor Glock mags.
I have some ETS mags on order and am anxious to see what those look like.
Here is what it looks like. You can see that I did take a bit of the sharp edge off on the black frame. The FDE frame has been reshaped with a file and sandpaper. Of course I did stuff a rag in the mag well and clean it out after. I did not entirely remove the flare because I was a bit hesitant to remove too much material. Still, the transition to magazine looks and feels better.
ACTUALLY, THATS NOT THE BEST MAGWELL*
To those wondering about the differences between the eBay Dagger magwell and the GG magwell, I bought both and I have to say that the GG is superior. There’s less flex, it’s slightly bigger for a better grip, but lastly, the screw on the GG screws into a brass nut that’s securely in the plastic.
The EBay one, after 1 time of mounting it, well, the screw just screws into plastic and the hole is already hogged out.
No comparison.
The GG looks better too. The notch sort of matches up on the 3D printed one, but I had to sand on the front lip to make it to where there wasn’t a BIG gap in the notch. I sanded more that I should and still never got it to where it matches nicely.
The GG just looks much nicer and covers the notch completely and matches lines with the angle lines on the grip
If I could figure how to post images, I would. Lol
I’m happy with my GG magwell. Shipped fast once it came back in stock too. The brass insert is very helpful because there was a slight lip from the Dagger’s grip at the front. Jamming mag in hard enough you wouldn’t notice it, but I took the magwell off several times to smooth it out. It’s not very pricey either. 30 bucks isn’t bad for a magwell, especially polymer. Some companies out there are ridiculous on pricing.
The Ebay one does look good for concealment though, depending on how you carry. With my EDC, the GG doesn’t bother me.
The mag is an OEM G19G5, with Warne mag extension. The GG does not have a cutout for the Taran style pins, and this uses a thick plastic washer and round hex screw head. So it did fit, but was pushed forward and had no movement at all. I ground down the rear of magwell a bit to fit it.
Also did the inside of the grip because even OEM mags were sticking when loaded for me. Follow up with some Meguiars ultimate black plastic restorer (even on the FDE frame) and it slicks it back up, despite the rough look.
Quick question, I just went to the GG website and their only offering is the magwell for the Compact Dagger and says on the site it won’t fit the full size Dagger S (which I just bought). Do you know if they offer that elsewhere? I’d love to get one but can only find them for compact models.
Thanks!
