So, the Big Brown Truck Of Happiness™ dropped off my Crimson Trace grips for my Glock 29 today.
It was packaged quite nicely in a sturdy box with a small towel to lay your firearm on while installing. There were a set of batteries in there (the grip requires 2), a punch for removing the holding pin, some cleaning Q-tip things for the laser, two adjustment Allen wrenches, instructions, and of course the grip itself
Installation is a breeze. Using the punch provided, you push out the small pin in the rear of the grip here
Snap the batteries into place on the inside of the Crimson Trace grip. The ridged sides of the batteries go on the inside - you should be able to see the flat parts. If you can see the ridges of the batteries, you have them installed backwards and could inadvertently cause a rip in the fabric of space time if you were to turn it on.
Once the pin is out, slide the Crimson Trace over the pistol grip until the holes align with the one where you just removed the pin. From the LEFT side of the pistol, replace the pin with the one provided in the box. It's longer which is needed to hold the now-wider grip into place
The grip does add a small amount of width to the pistol, however for me I like it. It doesn't get in the way of my holster since it sits almost towards the back as you can see here
It does make racking the slide a bit awkward as I'm afraid of whacking the laser housing too much lest I knock it off kilter, but that's just something to learn how to deal with as time goes on. The actuation switch is on the rear (the round nib on the back of the grip in the picture above) which is very sensitive. As long as you have a good grip, the laser is on. With the 1911 pistol, you have to push it with your finger and it was easy to not apply enough pressure to do so. With it being in the rear, it's darned near impossible to not turn it on.
My one big complaint is that there's no on/off switch like there is on the 1911 model. Sometimes, I might not want the laser on. If I were to shoot IDPA, there'd be nothing I could do to stay legal. I don't really want to jerry rig something to block the lens, both because I don't want to gunk it up and I really would hate to waste the batteries when there's no need to.
Overall, it was easy to install and adjust. At first the dot was so far off that even at full adjustment it didn't line up, but it turned out I didn't have the retaining pin all the way in. Once I did that I was able to get the dot on with the adjustment screws practically back to their original settings.
Once I get some range time, I'll definitely let you know how they work out. I've already did a dry firing session tonight and it's amazing how you can develop a flinch that you never noticed until you see a dot move 8" at 25' away.