jake_yer_booty
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I bought my G34 eight years ago from a guy who gave up on it after a couple of boxes. He had not owned a Glock before, bought this one on impulse and decided shortly thereafter he hated pretty much everything about them. There are several things I'm not crazy about, but after maybe 7000 rounds and numerous club-level matches I guess it's probably time for me to start changing the stuff I don't like!
First, if you are already used to the Glock trigger, you can skip this paragraph. I did the $0.25 trigger job on mine and the issue 3.5# setup is fine for me. I do have to dry fire several times before sighters because I didn't grow up on one and I need to reset muscle memory, but I'm alright with it. (I have fired one with a really nicely tuned Glockworx unit, and I have to say that's in the cards for me.)
The grip is chunky and the finger grooves just aren't in the right places. It causes me to shift my grip and thus readjust my sights as a result (see target below). I guess I've shot enough value out of it to justify breaking out the Dremel and grinding the bloody things off. Maybe soon...
I do hate the sights. HATE them. Honestly, mine were slightly asymmetrical from the manufacturer, and the dots were badly placed. I made small dimensional corrections with a file and blacked out the stupid dots. The pistol is accurate enough to justify quality sights; I've toyed with the idea of having the milled J Point installation, too. On the plus side, the adjustments are fine enough for NRA 50 foot match shooting. If you don't plan to shoot competitively or hunt with it, you can probably make do.
I shot the target in the attached pic today. I had six five round magazines lined up to shoot my own 30-shot practice course (slow/timed/rapid). My sight picture on the first shot was perfect, but when I looked through the spotting scope, I saw an ugly hole sitting in the 8 ring at about 7 o'clock. [Insert expletive here!] I reset my stance, gripped carefully again, watched my breathing, and sent the second one, again with a textbook sight picture at trigger break. And, lo, the hole appears about a half inch to the left in the SEVEN ring. I decided at this point to just finish the magazine and follow with another five -- not rage shooting, but no longer scoring the round.
When I looked through the scope, I saw they were mostly in one hole, but all well off of the center, so I just said, well, screw it, let's just go ahead and run one more magazine through in timed fire. I was flustered enough that I walked these around the lower left of the nine ring.
So clearly I have a grip problem. But on the plus side you can see that in slow fire a box stock 34 will yield up a slow fire score in the 90-95 range if you manage your grip properly and use ammo that the gun likes. I've never brought home a win, but I've only been embarrassed by my own shortcomings, and not by Herr Glock's product.
In the heavy bullets, mine greatly prefers the excellent but pricey Corbon Match. Otherwise, for duty rounds the 124/125 gr +P seems to shoot most accurately. And it spits out 115gr WWB (which I do not hate) all day with sufficient consistency to impress the guy next to you in casual shooting.
Still love my Gold Cup NM and Model 27 Smith the best, but this is undeniably a good pistol. I have over the years bought a 17 and 19 to go with it.
First, if you are already used to the Glock trigger, you can skip this paragraph. I did the $0.25 trigger job on mine and the issue 3.5# setup is fine for me. I do have to dry fire several times before sighters because I didn't grow up on one and I need to reset muscle memory, but I'm alright with it. (I have fired one with a really nicely tuned Glockworx unit, and I have to say that's in the cards for me.)
The grip is chunky and the finger grooves just aren't in the right places. It causes me to shift my grip and thus readjust my sights as a result (see target below). I guess I've shot enough value out of it to justify breaking out the Dremel and grinding the bloody things off. Maybe soon...
I do hate the sights. HATE them. Honestly, mine were slightly asymmetrical from the manufacturer, and the dots were badly placed. I made small dimensional corrections with a file and blacked out the stupid dots. The pistol is accurate enough to justify quality sights; I've toyed with the idea of having the milled J Point installation, too. On the plus side, the adjustments are fine enough for NRA 50 foot match shooting. If you don't plan to shoot competitively or hunt with it, you can probably make do.
I shot the target in the attached pic today. I had six five round magazines lined up to shoot my own 30-shot practice course (slow/timed/rapid). My sight picture on the first shot was perfect, but when I looked through the spotting scope, I saw an ugly hole sitting in the 8 ring at about 7 o'clock. [Insert expletive here!] I reset my stance, gripped carefully again, watched my breathing, and sent the second one, again with a textbook sight picture at trigger break. And, lo, the hole appears about a half inch to the left in the SEVEN ring. I decided at this point to just finish the magazine and follow with another five -- not rage shooting, but no longer scoring the round.
When I looked through the scope, I saw they were mostly in one hole, but all well off of the center, so I just said, well, screw it, let's just go ahead and run one more magazine through in timed fire. I was flustered enough that I walked these around the lower left of the nine ring.
So clearly I have a grip problem. But on the plus side you can see that in slow fire a box stock 34 will yield up a slow fire score in the 90-95 range if you manage your grip properly and use ammo that the gun likes. I've never brought home a win, but I've only been embarrassed by my own shortcomings, and not by Herr Glock's product.
In the heavy bullets, mine greatly prefers the excellent but pricey Corbon Match. Otherwise, for duty rounds the 124/125 gr +P seems to shoot most accurately. And it spits out 115gr WWB (which I do not hate) all day with sufficient consistency to impress the guy next to you in casual shooting.
Still love my Gold Cup NM and Model 27 Smith the best, but this is undeniably a good pistol. I have over the years bought a 17 and 19 to go with it.
