Glock Glock Glock

[M29since14]

When the G17 first hit the market, there used to be a Glock commando who was a regular at our indoor range. We would see him frequently, always with gun in holster (back in those days, no one wore a gun into the range), standing around flapping his trap about how great the thing was - but I can't recall ever seeing him actually shooting. One night he was telling us he had 1.5-million rounds through his gun, nothing ever broke, barrel was still perfect, it would outshoot any other 9mm, blah, blah, blah...

While we were sitting around having our after-shooting hamburger, my friends and I got to calculating he would have to shoot 100 rds/day for over 4-years to pull that off. Ammo cost - figuring average $6/box - $180,000. Glocks had only been in the U.S. for a couple years then.

It was the first of what would become an onslaught of "Let me tell you about my Glock" stories. We just didn't know it at that time.

 

[Jlduke]

When the G17 first hit the market, there used to be a Glock commando who was a regular at our indoor range. We would see him frequently, always with gun in holster (back in those days, no one wore a gun into the range), standing around flapping his trap about how great the thing was - but I can't recall ever seeing him actually shooting. One night he was telling us he had 1.5-million rounds through his gun, nothing ever broke, barrel was still perfect, it would outshoot any other 9mm, blah, blah, blah...

While we were sitting around having our after-shooting hamburger, my friends and I got to calculating he would have to shoot 100 rds/day for over 4-years to pull that off. Ammo cost - figuring average $6/box - $180,000. Glocks had only been in the U.S. for a couple years then.

It was the first of what would become an onslaught of "Let me tell you about my Glock" stories. We just didn't know it at that time.

Ha, that's funny. I hear stuff like that all the time. That's right up there with what I hear from people who are crazy about Kimbers.

 

[Maximumbob54]

I just traded my one and only Glock for a Model 10. Not that she ever gave me trouble, I just really like Model 10's.

 

[ma deuce]

I had a Gen 1 G17 I got a couple of years after they came out, then a G23. Both worked fine, I liked the G17 better because not as "snappy" as the G23. But I got tired of the triggers and traded them on another 1911. Plastic guns/strikers don't really appeal to me now. Might feel different if I was CC all the time, but I'm in Maryland.

 

[Scott450]

Rock out with your Glock out!!

 

[crofoot629]

S&W wishes they'd invented Glocks!

Emory

 

[mlk18]

Glock wishes they'd invented Glocks.

 

[Simmy952]

Isn't that what an Austrian chicken sounds like "glock, glock, glock"?

My clock goes tick, glock, tick, glock!

I have a couple but I have always liked my S&W. Once you have held a S&W, anything else is second best.

 

[Titegroups]

We call 'em Glocktards.

 

[Stu1205]

Friends don't let friends buy Glocks.

 

[M29since14]

S&W wishes they'd invented Glocks!

I think S&W wishes they had never heard of Glocks.

 

[sodacan]

Smith and Wesson is a division of Glock. Do you live under a rock???

 

[youseemym&p]

I thought that my glocks were great! untill my G36 turned into a glockomatic jam factory. there has glock to be a better way!

 

[oldwolf]

One of my relatives recently let me know that he is a "Glock Man".

 

[M29since14]

Smith and Wesson is a division of Glock. Do you live under a rock???

It's a well established fact that many of us here do, have for some time, and we are quite comfortable there!

 

[Silversmok3]

Glock isn't a gunmaker, its a religious cult. They sell guns to pay the bills and to fund the indoctrination material needed to bring new members into "the cult". Here's how cults work, in bullet point format:


People are put in physical or emotionally distressing situations;
(YOU MIGHT DRAW AND LEAVE THE SAFETY ON! JOIN GLOCK!)
Their problems are reduced to one simple explanation, which is repeatedly emphasized;
( Glocks are Perfection. Your (insert gun brand) is flawed and ancient, for Herr. Gaston has achieved perfection.)

They receive what seems to be unconditional love, acceptance, and attention from a charismatic leader or group;
( Welcome to the Glock Fan Club. Here's the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and all the thousands of Police Departments in America, and on the other end of the room is Hollywood and TV actors with Glocks....we all love you.....put down your M&P)

They get a new identity based on the group;

(Glockenspielers Unite!)

They are subject to entrapment (isolation from friends, relatives and the mainstream culture) and their access to information is severely controlled.

(Smith and Wesson has improved the Glock? Nein. Propaganda. XDm more accurate than Glock 34? The writer must be biased. 5906 better than Glock 17? They're stuck in the past. Glock 22 blew up? Nein. The round was the problem, not the unsupported chamber....)

I would know about cults. Im a part of the one called "S&W 3rd Generation".

 

[TAROMAN]

The mass media are to blame!

 

[Silversmok3]

There is some truth to krehmkej's post.

Once upon a time last year, I owned a 4506. At the time I lived on a military base, so regs mandated I be disarmed until I passed the gate.My routine was to pull over after leaving and load the weapon for daily carry, but on this day I had company. A friend's wife needed a lift downtown, and there was no practical way to load the massive .45 ACP pistol without her seeing it.After the appropriate explanation of my right to carry and cautioning her to not be alarmed, I pulled the 4506 and did the usual load-safe & decock-off safe & holster drill.

"Nice Glock" the woman said.










How...does ....someone.....nevermind.

 

[youseemym&p]

i was pulled over for a out taillight around 2 am. told the officer i was armed. his response? what model glock do you carry.

i was carrying a SIG lol

 

[Denver Dick]

I don't get all this negativity about the Glock. I have 1 2nd Gen and 18 3rd Gens and they're all great pistols. I also have 4 Glocks (19, 22, 31 and 21). I find them to be excellent pistols, too. I've never had a Glock to malfunction, except when I tried a non-factory Wolff recoil spring in a Glock 23 I once owned. I went back to factory spirngs and bingo it ran like a clock. My brother has it now and it stills works great.

However, let me be clear about something. Notwithstanding its function and performance, the Glock is a soulless shooting machine. For those of us who grew up handling and shooting S&W revolvers, Colt Single Action Army revolvers, Colt 1911s, Lugers, Browning Hi Powers, Walther P38s, and H&K P9S .45 ACPs, the Glock is just not . . . well, let's just say there's a reason it's call The Block by many. On the other hand, 3rd Gens, especially the big boy 10mm and .45 pistols, just look and, more importantly, feel right. That's just the way it is, a fact of life, nothing more or less.

FWIW

Edit: My last sentence reminded me a funny grave marker in Tombstone, AZ. "HERE LIES Lester Moore, 4 SLUGS FROM A 44, NO LESS NO MORE"