Glocks are falling out of favor.......

i like it

i seem to like the glock

it is the closest to my ruger wheel guns and still have 20 rnds lol

Arch said:

Yup, I was a 1911 nut, untill I fired a Tanfoglio.

Don't get me wrong, the 1911s are still great. But I just migrated over to having the Tanfoglio as number 1.

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Well, this is interesting. I thought I was the only one who preferred a Tan over a 1911. Most of my friends thought I was crazy. Maybe Tanfoglios are not exactly the most-respected gun out there, but they feel fine to me, and I hit with them.

antediluvianist said:

Well, this is interesting. I thought I was the only one who preferred a Tan over a 1911. Most of my friends thought I was crazy. Maybe Tanfoglios are not exactly the most-respected gun out there, but they feel fine to me, and I hit with them.

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You are not alone

Actually America seems to be the only place where they are not overly respected. This is probably due to the importer EAA, and the fact they offer a whole bunch of budget 'wonder finish' guns that are not seen anywhere else.

You can't beat Italian style and quality.

frenchwrench said:

Carry- Glock 23 or 27.
Shoot and fondle-1911/S&W.

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Bout the same here - Carry 19 or 26
Shoot 1911, Pythons

glock

I my self was in this situation this summer. had 2 .357's then i went and traded one for a glock and enjoy shooting more cause i can put 150 rnds for $12 down range instead of 50 for $13 . sense the glock came back done alot more pistol shooting.

I sold a perfectly great Glock 19 because it had lost favor to a Springfield XD-9 Service. A year later I had sold the XD and bought a G17 AND G26. I have other nicer looking pistols but keep coming back to the durability, reliability and simplicity of the Glock when it counts. I wish I still had that Glock 19.

The Glock 26 will be my concealed carry piece as soon as my license comes in the mail.





Moral of the story - Be sure your pistol has permenantly lost its favor because you may very well wish you hadn't sold it.

To each his own.

I own several pistols. If I was forced to keep only one it would be my Glock 22. Yes, you may think they are soul less, but I have no problem trusting my soul to my G22. I got it used as a LE trade in, it looked brand new, SEVERAL rds later it has never failed in any way.

Gave Glock a good try but a 9mm with a lousy trigger is not my idea of a great gun. After trying vainly to shoot it decently I broke out my 1913 dated 1911 with invisible knife edge sights that shoots 6" high with a 9 pound pull and outshot the Glock. (About what I expected.)

I'll take a nice fixed sighted 1911 with a good SA pull and 8 rounds over any Glock made. For that matter a good K frame .357 is preferable.

Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't.

Although my main carry piece is a revolver, I have the utmost faith in each and every one of my Glocks. I've never had a malfunction from one of them, including a G23 I bought in the early 90s that has digested over 16,000 rounds with little maintainance and without a single problem. What more can you ask for from a SD handgun?
Biker

Glocks falling out of favor

Not for me. I did a long hard study before purchasing my first Glock. I needed a weapon for self protection, durability, value, accurate to a respectable distance.

Sure I understand about BBQ guns of the Southwest and purdy guns. And I do have a few safe queens.

But the last thing I want from the perp looking down the bbl of my gun is his opinion of how purty it is. I'd sooner they concern themselves about the color of their drawers.

I'm not sure that Glocks are really falling out of favor so much as that they've gone from being the only game in town 20 years ago, to having a lot of competition.

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I sort of agree with that sentiment. I am not a fan of Glocks personally, although back when I used to sell guns, I would happily recommend them to people, mostly because I still believed that they were decent guns. It wasn't a matter of materials for me: If Glocks were still the only real choice for polymer pistols, I probably would not own a polymer pistol. As it happens, I now own one polymer (Taurus 24/7), and was darn impressed by a Springfield XD "long slide" model, and by god, I will likely buy a Kel-Tec P3AT at some point.

After trying vainly to shoot it decently I broke out my 1913 dated 1911 with invisible knife edge sights that shoots 6" high with a 9 pound pull and outshot the Glock. (About what I expected.)

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Man, that cracked me up...

I want a glock just to have as a BEAT ON gun for the cabin or back of truck. relaiable but its to spendy. looking for used beat up one at gunshow this weekend

The success of the Glock design is shown by the fact that there are so many other companies trying hard to imitate their products. As the old saying goes, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

Personally, I love my Glocks ~ and that's saying something coming from a man who, up until last year, wouldn't even have touched one on a bet. Sure they're ugly, and have no soul whatsoever, but they've got it where it counts. I've got plenty of pistols to impress the ladies but the Glock 19 is what's always under my pillow.

However to return to the main subject of this thread, for some reason it seems that DA Rugers are falling out of favor with me lately. Don't know why, really.

Erik F said:

Personally, the weird (for me) grips and awful trigger have kept me away from Glocks. That, and they just don't have any charisma.

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They're like 1980's Volvos. Reliable and safe in the moment of need, but damned boxy and ugly.

The one and only Glock I will ever have is a G26..... I made the mistake of buying a CZ PO1 and now the G26 will just be in the safe and hardly used now.

GunAdmirer said:

Moral of the story - Be sure your pistol has permenantly lost its favor because you may very well wish you hadn't sold it.

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Spot on.

The gun industry and owners, in general, has their various fads and fashions sometimes driven by legislation or innovation... all that might very well come around back again and change your opinion.

W Turner said:

Has anyone else been a huge fan of a certain brand or style only to pretty much move away from them?

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Para Ordnance. I had 15, now I have none.

GunAdmirer said:

I sold a perfectly great Glock 19 because it had lost favor to a Springfield XD-9 Service. A year later I had sold the XD and bought a G17 AND G26. I have other nicer looking pistols but keep coming back to the durability, reliability and simplicity of the Glock when it counts. I wish I still had that Glock 19.

The Glock 26 will be my concealed carry piece as soon as my license comes in the mail.





Moral of the story - Be sure your pistol has permenantly lost its favor because you may very well wish you hadn't sold it.

To each his own.

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Amen!

Have all kinds of sidearms.

But for bad situations, give me a Glock please. The 1911s are for the range now.

But I will grab an HK P7 for CCW too

For me, glocks are tools (like was said). I want a tool for personal defense, so glock fits the bill. Its not the prettiest, coolest, or fanciest. Hell its not the most accurate either, but its good enough for my purposes in my situation. I simply cant afford to dump a ton of money into something else to get it how I like it, and even if I did, I'd definitely think twice about carrying it.

For now, when I need to focus on my skills and not worry about the gun, Glocks are where its at.

There are some things Glock does that nobody else does. The m29 is a good example. Why give up a tool that fills your need?
It would be nice if they made a "Pro" series... say with a nice Robar grip reduction, trigger work, steel sights and 1" accuracy guarantee. Yea, I want a target too. Just like the old Sigs.

This argument has been debated many times.

Bar none, I have found that the Glock in 9mm is without a doubt the most useful semi-automatic handgun tool ever made.

I have a G17 and a G19 and yes, they are utilitarian, not pretty, but they always go bang - always (so far anyway). I must get a G26 someday.

To me, a gun is a tool, not pretty, not a work of art. I realize there are those of different opinions and I respect those opinions.

But I prefer solid, totally reliable handguns when self-defense is an issue.

In that regard I have found the Glocks in 9mm for semi-automatics to fit the bill, and Ruger in revolvers in calibers .38 and .357 to be the same.

Oddly enough, all the trash talk about Glocks has spurred my interest in them. I'm such a contrarian

Don't own any Glocks only because I never liked the way they look. I have, however, shot a few and they've been very accurate and comfortable for me. A 36 or a 27 is somewhere in my near future.