Dropped my Glock. boohoo

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I keep mentally kicking my own ass for not zipping up my backpack pocket before I swung it over my shoulder, sending my pristine g4m26 into an aerial flat spin that ended abruptly with a CLACK! on the garage floor. The TTGunleather Slim IWB I had it in received a couple of nicks, but the spin kept it from dropping with the heavy balance point facing down (that being the back corner of the slide, most often, which is why hammers, beavertails, rear sights, and the rear edges of the slide tend to take the brunt of most drops) and it ended up landing fairly flat on it's side. Couldn't really see any damage to the finish at all. Nor was their any to the frame, but still, it bugs me to think that I may have weakened some area of the slide, or caused a frame rail to move just slightly out of place, possibly leading to a failure somewhere down the road.
The reality is, I can see no damage and intellectually, I know the chances that anything will come of it are extremely slim, but I like my pistols, especially the ones that I think of as being a "go to gun," one that I would rely on in any situation. It's an emotional attachment that has very little to do with what I paid for it. I'll get over it, especially since I can't even see any damage, but it still will bug me to no end for a couple of days.
Anyone else feel the same way when they do something like that? Some people say they could care less, but it definitely bugs me, even if there is no apparent damage. I guess it's just the fear of some unseen crack in the slides weak spots, or a weakened frame rail.
 
Anyone else feel the same way when they do something like that?
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No, I just feel stupid... Even more stupid when I catch it (there is an ND thread going...)

Don't worry about it. Verify zero, and fire away. The gun goes through more punishing forces by being fired.
 
A drop from less than 6 feet, plus any kinetic energy you gave it horizontally?

Get over it, most electronics can handle that kind of abuse, your gun will be fine.
 
To me, this is a major advantage of Glocks. It was born ugly. If you drop it on concrete--even if you give it a nice scratch--it is STILL ugly.

Though now it has character. :D
 
x2 on what he ^ said about Glocks...LOL.

Yes, it bugs me when I do something like you, Taptaps, even if it causes no damage....Just last week, I opened my safe and was digging around. I knocked out a fine revolver in a padded pistol rug. I heard it go "thud" when it it the hardwood and suspected damage. I found the rear sight blade bent. Even though a few taps with a wooded hammer handle straightened it right up, I was sick I had bent it to begin with.
 
...especially the ones that I think of as being a "go to gun," one that I would rely on in any situation.
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Any situation huh? Like falling and hitting concrete? So your Glock just passed the drop test. No harm, no foul. ;)
 
Did you buy it 'cause it's pretty or for a useful purpose? Worrying about a scratch or such is like a woman getting flustered 'cause her shoe got a scuff.
 
Evreyone is right. It hurts when your new toy gets the first mark. After that it just gains character. I'm looking at the wear spots on my carry. Earned in the service of its master.
 
Sounds like a great excuse to disassemble, clean, inspect, then fire a few hundred rounds to verify. :D
 
I dropped my 27 on my driveway and it made a noticable dent and discoloration right over the slide plate, right under rear sights - works 100%. My GF dropped my 29 in my moms driveway - no marks at all. I dropped my old 27 slide off the kitchen counter on to a tile floor when cleaning it. The rail bent in and I could never assemble it again. Glock replaced the slide for $100 or $150 can't remember but that was about 8-10 years ago. I felt really stupid but if the guns we dropped were assembled and loaded they were in holsters. I told my GF never to try and catch a dropped gun, even if unloaded and/or holstered. She did right, she's a keeper!
 
I put some nicks on the rear of a previously-pristine S&W 659 once. It bothered me for a little bit, but I was more embarrassed at the fact that I dropped it (from a vehicle door pocket) in the parking lot of a bank, and I was an off-duty LEO.
 
Look at them as beauty-marks.

If the gun is for show, in a small glass dome, then that is one thing.

For a carry-weapon, so it gets a ding, so some bluing wears off, who cares, really?

If you need the gun to defend your life, are a couple of blems really going to make any difference, short of knocking a sight off or something, even then, though, you could just point and shoot!:cool:
 
Loosedhorse: To me, this is a major advantage of Glocks. It was born ugly. If you drop it on concrete--even if you give it a nice scratch--it is STILL ugly.

Though now it has character.

I agree. Outstanding statement.
I know it stinks to concrete drop a gun but Glocks are dropped from helicopters, drug behind trucks etc.

In my armorers class they said as long as the portion where the spring rests (near the muzzle) isn't bent you are usually good. Most of the time they get bent from falling W/O the grip frame mounted (field stripped) and then they are dropped landing nose first where the spring rests.
 
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Trying to jam a Glock is like trying to jam an AK.
Oh it can happen, but dropping it on the ground is something you can forget about quite easily.
 
Just be glad that it didn't land on one of the sights. If your sight(s) got damaged, that would be pretty annoying.
 
This is why you carry a Glock and not a pretty thing.... The Glock can take the wear and abuse of everyday use and the occasional OOPS without worry.... unless you try to catch it!

I bet my CCW instructor told us a half dozen times to let the gun go and NEVER try to catch it.

A glock is like many tools, it only attains beauty with use and wear.
 
Ya, im over it at this point. I know it is kind of dumb to even worry about it at all (especially since there was no visible damage whatsoever. The smoothness of the cement helped). That was the point of the post, though.
 
Years ago I was walking a gunshow with a Finnish M39 Mosin Nagant rifle - an unissued B model - slung on my right shoulder in its original sling. I was proud of that rifle. Suddenly, the top of the sling around the retaining rivet gave way (60 year old leather is not necessarily going to do the job). I was gripping the sling with my hand just as many do with a slung rifle and so instead of the entire thing falling to the concrete floor, it swung downwards, my hand being the hub of a tragic circle with the muzzle being on the circle, heading towards a tangent of destiny with the hard floor. The front sight protectors did exactly what they were designed to do and smashed against the concrete. The floor got a chip and the left sight wing got a grandfather of a ding - bright and shiny one at that. WORSE, everyone within twenty feet stopped, turned, and stared at me, my broken sling, and my dinged rifle.

Evidently my mind has erased what happened next because frankly I don't remember. I still have that rifle, though. It shoots as well as ever.
 
You are kidding, right? It's a Glock! It will take much more punishment than dropping from ~6' in a holster no less. They are not pretty, but they go bang when you need them! I'd not worry about it and shoot the snot out of it! :)
 
I actually dropped my gun (one of my 1911s) for the first time in my life about a month ago, did it again this weekend. Albeit from the shelf in the safe to the floor of the safe, so it didn't do anything. Both times it was because I was moving guns around to change what I was carrying and I knocked this same gun off the shelf those two times. I got po'ed at myself both times for it. The only other time in my whole life I dropped a gun, and it was because of a defective holster, was my Taurus 605 which fell out of a Galco SOB holster because the retention screw popped out by itself and it fell out of the holster whilst leaving a convenience store at the lake I got to one summer. Should have seen the look on the only person who saw it other than me! Some kid of about 7 years old.
 
That's why I bought a Glock.

I carried my BHP until I noticed wear appearing and decided to buy a pistol I wouldn't mind abusing a little. I've dropped my Glock a couple of times, once while running and kicked it across some concrete a short distance. I always wince when I do, and it is something I try to never allow to happen but, if it didn't land on the sights, don't worry to much about it. I cleaned it, inspected it, and have shot it a lot since. Now, the only wear that is really obvious is on the barrel finish from the 3000+ rounds.
 
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