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Does your Mother know you purchased a GLOCK ??
Does your Mother know you purchased a GLOCK ??
Glocks are a great pistol and have been proven dependable worldwide. My wife has a model 19 9mm and it is a fine gun. My only complaint is the polygonal rifling in the barrel which doesn't allow loading cast bullets. You can shoot them, but the shallow rounded lands don't grip them well enough to stabilize them. I wish they came with a cut rifled barrel.
This is one of the first autos I have ever purchased, and my first Glock...It's the Glock G36 in .45 auto. I got it because i'm sick of banging up revolvers and worrying about their ability to take abuse, I wanted something about the same size, weight, and stopping power per round as one of my main carry guns-the Ruger SP101(357)...The G36 seemed to be the perfect solution.
Shot it today a bit, basically zero recoil compared to the SP101, and 2 extra rounds of that man stopper 45! Got to love that big muzzle hole!
I fully understand your sentiment. But, would you throw your Sig under the seat of your vehicle? Leave it in the glove box? Leave it at the hunt camp?I bought a Glock 30 in 1999. I have put exactly 100 rounds through it since the day I bought it. It is well made, seems very reliable, is very accurate, and may be the softest shooting gun in 45 ACP that I have ever fired. I can find very little wrong with it, except for the fact that it is plastic. I just can't warm up to plastic guns. It just sits in my safe waiting for me to find it a new home. The Sig P220 ruined me for all other semi-autos in 45 ACP. Can't knock Glocks. Can't love 'em either.
I appreciate the Glocks I have, but not quite in the same way you do.I love the way my Glock 23 speaks to me as I stare at it with glossy eyes when it's laying on the coffee table. As my fingertips slowly caress the dull black polymer lower and liquid ferritic nitrocarburized coated upper I feel chills of excitement. The polymer and I are one, the way the textured grip and the finger groves fits my hand like a well worn leather glove. The trigger, yes that safe action trigger, with it's 5 and half pound pull that I have grown to count on being consistent with every tug of my trigger finger. I know I can count on my Glock to be there for me when I need it, just like I'm there for it as I slowly rub a light synthetic lubricant over every nook and granny. Some, who have no love for Glock's, have called it ugly, but they have not come to appreciate it's boxy, but shapely form, the way I have. It's spirit speaks to me again saying "trust me, and I will never let you down!"
I would only do that with my P7.I fully understand your sentiment. But, would you throw your Sig under the seat of your vehicle? Leave it in the glove box? Leave it at the hunt camp?
I wouldn't. Nor would I really do the same to a Glock, but if I had to choose....? No tears would be shed.
I appreciate the Glocks I have, but not quite in the same way you do.
Maybe you were spoofing( a polymer term)
I did order a holster last week before going to pick out a Glock.