Been going down the rabbit hole on the TTI Ballerina Glock 17 Gen 5 and figured I’d throw this out here to get some takes.
I get that it’s basically a full Taran Tactical build on a Glock 17 platform, tuned trigger, optics-ready, the whole “race gun meets duty gun” vibe. From what I’ve seen, it’s supposed to shoot ridiculously flat and fast, almost like a hybrid between a competition gun and a carry setup.
At the same time… the price tag is wild. I’ve seen people say it’s basically a $500 Glock with a few grand in upgrades, while others swear it’s on another level performance wise.
From what I’ve read and watched, the trigger is super light (~2 lbs), and the compensator + slide work really tame recoil, making it feel totally different from a stock Glock. Sounds awesome, but I’m wondering how much of that is hype vs real-world value.
So for those who’ve handled or shot one:
Does it actually feel that different from a well-built “Gucci Glock”?
Worth the money, or just paying for the TTI name and movie hype?
How practical is it outside of range/competition use?
Not looking to start a debate just trying to figure out if it’s genuinely worth considering or more of a collector / flex piece.
With the caveat that I’ve never shot one in place I’d say this concept is so far down the phioisophically repulsive boulevard, I can’t even wrap my head around it.
Not to target this perv’s gun specifically since there’s no shortage of people willing to pay over $5k for all kinds of ridiculous pistols…. but we’re talking about the “mighty” 9mm round. Are we seriously needed a comp and overbred gun to tame this gutless round?
For pure competition, whatever… I don’t participate or understand that realm at all. But when did America become so weak that we need a comp on the minimum basic caliber?
These types of guns are nothing unique to pistol shooting either. How many guys do I know that bought some Georgia Precision bolt gun that won’t do anything an off the rack Tikka or Bergara can?
This guy has obviously carved out a market and made a name for himself, but it’s truly not my thing at all.
I’m a Buy a Glock, put a dot on it, and practice shooting guy. To each his own, but on overbred glock makes no sense to me.
I don’t know how much more benefit you can get than adding a red dot and a Radian compensator. Like anything else, returns to dollar seem to diminish quickly after a certain point. Then again, I don’t have any compensated pistols yet.
To be fair, if it has the famous Glock reliability with factoryammo and you can get it on sale, it’s not too bad of a deal compared to high maintenance 2011s that cost 3k+, don’t come with an optic, and have $70 magazines that may have to be tuned. If you’re buying a Glock, you probably already have glock mags and can hit the range. A good enough Black Friday deal and it may be a better deal in reality than on paper.
I was curious enough to see what this looked like that I checked that internet-thingy. TTI lists the gun at $4,399.99.
I told my wife years ago that if I ever spent 2 or 3K on a pistol then she would be allowed to use it on me.
Seriously, there is a point of diminishing returns here. A 1,000-dollar pistol could be substantially better than a 500-dollar pistol - perhaps even twice as good. But will a 4,000-dollar pistol be four times better than a 1,000-dollar pistol? At some point you are paying substantially more for a minor improvement in performance.
Most people would probably be better off buying a $1,500 gun and putting money towards a case of ammo to practice with, and some actual classes. Then use some of the remainder to take the wife out to a nice dinner.
Mind you, there are exceptions made for true collector grade weapons. But that is outside the parameters of this conversation.
I predict they will sell some of these though to rich guys who like the “gee-whiz” factor of having a gun seen in the John Wick universe. Some people have more money than sense, but I myself do not fall into that category. The most I have ever dropped on a gun was 2,600 and that was for a rifle.
I’ve got a neighbor with a Truck that could climb Everest, so there are those exceptions, I’m not sure why all the exceptions live in my neighborhood though.
How practical is it outside of range/competition use?
Do you really have to ask?
just trying to figure out if it’s genuinely worth considering
No.
There, you just saved 4 grand.
The sooner Taran gets over getting his cock sucked by Hollyweird, the better life will be for the gun community. Then again, there are a lot of people in said community who seem to live for the chance to be a good little pay pig for hype and influencer bullshit.
I’ll bet a buck you could buy a stock glock G5 and do your own upgrades and it will do the same thing for WAY less than 4 f’in grand, and you’ll have money for ammo to actually train to shoot worth the cost of the upgrades.
There was a day this shit would have been laughed off this forum…
If your thing is buying an over priced Glock, that was carried in the pretend world of a movie. Knock yourself out.
If you want the performance in a pistol that you will carry every day, you could get it for about $1050. $400 used Glock 17 gen 3, radiant ramjet $400, mill the slide for red dot $250. If you wanted to put a different frame on it add like $100. Better yet buy a used slide $350, after market frame $100, Ramjet $400, milled for red dot $250.
The above prices are not including red dot.
Gabe, every post you make has a link to Fortis Gun Supply, which I find a curious lack of physical address or many other things a respectable dealer would have on their site. Maybe they just don’t know how to set up a site, but I’ve seen a lot of scam “sellers” that looked very similar.
Either way, stop trying to be sneaky with the embedded links. If you’re gonna post a link do it in the clear.
I’ve always looked at most custom pump shotguns in a similar light. Once the sight setup gets upgraded beyond a bead and a light bolted on, the additional adds rarely seem to add a value that equals the final dollar amount.
The humorous part is you were originally interested in an M27 and was put off by the price, so moved to the cheaper M28. And now you have spent more than the 27 would have cost.
But on the plus side, now you have two pistols instead of one. Double the fun.
I don’t feel silly for buying them, just silly I now have two and spent more than I intended.
The Irony in that is, yes I did want that 27, but what was intresting to me was they had the 27 and built the 28 as a woking Mans Gun. So, you’ve essentially got the fancy and not so fancy but very capable.
From what I have read and understand, S&W wildly overbuilt the N Frame for the time and all of the magnums were modeled on it. So you get an N frame Revolver known for digesting Hot .44 magum loads and you’ll be shooting the softer shooting .357 Magnums of +P .38’s. So the Revolver should be good for nearly forever.
And when I found out they quit making them and the 27’s had miltiple changes over the years, I was sold.
And to think Bill Jordan had me convinced I needed a Model 19.
If you have access to a K-frame, flip the cylinder open and compare it alongside the cylinder on the N-frame. The difference is quite noticeable.
I have a K-frame .357, but I always just shoot .38 from it. If the goblins were coming, I could stoke it with .357, but other than that I will stick with the lighter rounds.
One of my great regrets in life is not having picked up a 3” K-frame during the great surplus police revolver sell offs of the late 80s / early 90s. I think I paid less than 200 bucks for my 4” model.
But now we are guilty of thread drift. I’ll tell you though, I would rather have your M28s than the TTI Ballerina. If the SHTF I would not feel too sorry for myself with the N-frame and 6 rounds of .357 authority.
There are enough rumors, and nasty enough rumors about Taran that I’m a bit surprised that his guns are mentioned at all. Then again, you’ve got a gun company that hates police that pushes PDs as their target audience, and people still buy them. You’ve got fake cops and other loons doing the same thing wherever they can.
The firearm business is pretty goofy at times.
I think the main source of interest in TTI is just from people who buy into the John Wick stuff and want the gun from the movie(s). How well it does or doesn’t shoot means very little to these people.
