Are Glocks Ugly?

[WolverineFury]

Some say yes, some say no. What's your take?

 

[jhb]

Not to me. I kinda like the way glocks look. Meaning the full sizers and compacts like the 20, 17, 19, etc. Those sub compacts i find unattractive, but that's me.

Hi points....now those i call really ugly.

 

[Nom de Forum]

Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder your question can never conclusively be answered. I don't think Glocks are ugly or particularly good looking.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Associating the word "ugly" with Glock is in fact an insult to the word ugly.

I recommend we change the phrase to
"Someone beat that poor guy with the Glock stick!"
and of course
"She fell out of the Glock tree and hit every branch on the way down!"

Then we can reserve the word ugly for less hideous things like poison spiders, and Saab 900 cars, and piles of dog poo......

Ok, seriously though. I do not care for the looks of Glocks at all, but that is in no way a comment on their functionality. They tend to work, and I would trust my life to one if they made a gun/cartridge combo I wanted, and wasn't made by another company. I guess I look at Glocks like I look at a hammer. It will definitely get the job done, but it really isn't for looking at.

Everyone has different tastes. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure plenty of folks would find my taste in guns horrendous. This is an odd question.......

 

[mokin]

I've seen uglier. It doesn't bother me that much though. I still carry one.

 

[jcwit]

No more so than a Hi-Point.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I'd say Hi-Point would win. But if it works, who cares.

 

[rskent]

Glock, you are all that's beautiful in this world.

I don't think I could have said it any better.

 

[JDGray]

I think the compacts look the best, followed by the subs, but the long slides are fugly!

 

[tarosean]

I'd say Hi-Point would win. But if it works, who cares.

It wasnt a question about functionality was it?






Definitely in need of a makeover... Pretty homely looking, but there are far worse out there.

 

[powwowell]

They look OK to me. The exception is the G42. That's a beautiful, sexy looking, little pistol.

 

[2wheels]

In a traditional sense, yes Glocks are ugly. Hard to say a Glock is pretty when it's standing next to 1911s, HiPowers, classic S&W or Colt revolvers, older Berettas, etc...

But in a practical sense, it doesn't look that bad, it's just getting the job done. When manufacturers try to add a little too much style to their polymer handguns, that's what I don't like.

 

[JDR]

My Gen3 17 and Gen4 21 shoot beautiful targets!

 

[Sergei Mosin]

They're Bauhaus, that's all.

 

[jimbo555]

I like the way they look. I don't like the way they feel in my hand.

 

[Zerodefect]

Don't seem that ugly when all the M9's and 1911's are failing on the line. I'll let the targets determine the ugly. My targets look fine.

Unstoppable reliability and plenty of dead targets seems like a gorgeous thing to me.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

9......

 

[OilyPablo]

I was gonna say they are ugly, but not HiPoint ugly.

Ugly was my Glock 20LS still with the plain stainless slide. But once I got the slide Cerakoted Graphite Black it looked nice like a Glock should.

Not any uglier than the Ruger polymer hand guns either.

 

[JR24]

I like em, but it does depend on the size. I think the mid size (19/23) look great, the full size are OK (but not great) and the sub-compacts are butt ugly.

Just my opinion.

 

[jlr1962]

Its a hand gun. Looks better than some. Not as bad as a hi-point or walther ppx. Walther really, well, took a different approach there.

 

[Starter52]

Colt revolvers are beautiful. Browning Hi-Powers are beautiful. The Glock is just a Glock.

 

[Catshooter]

I used to think they were sorta ugly. But then Ruger built the LCR!


Cat

 

[Goju]

In the world of polymer guns, they're aesthetically middle of the road to me, where Walther pegs the ugly meter. And several Rugers are not far behind.......

 

[Thermactor]

I thought they were darn ugly,
And then I saw the Springfield XD.

 

[Tallball]

They are as ugly as my ex wife!