Jeff Cooper on Glocks

[will919]

I maybe flamed here but I own and love both my Glocks, my 1911 (Kimber with the external extractor), and last but not least a Kel-tec p3at.

 

[GoRon]

I have seen plenty of Glocks jam. Where did this urban myth that they never jam come from? They don't fail as much as other designs but they are not "perfection".

With the track record Glocks have how can you not be impressed? They do work and mostly better than anything else.

Having said that my 1911 Springfied TRP is my main gun and I don't see me using a Glock any time soon.

 

[Lobotomy Boy]

I've had one stovepipe in a Glock 21. I've easily run 6,000-7,000 rounds through Glocks so that is not a bad percentage.

 

[ChuckB]

My G19 was absolutely 100%- until I screwed around with it too much. Except for a 3.5# connector, it's back to original, and back to 100%.

Chuck

 

[..]

Coop is an old codger set in his ways and resistant to change. He's also a 1911 purist that can't stand the fact a $400 gun can run circles around his beloved 1911.

 

[default]

I believe what the Colonel said about GLOCK pistols was a textbook example of "damning with faint praise". In their own way, his remarks about GLOCKs are more infuriating to GLOCK owners than if he had just simply dismissed them as inaccurate, unsafe, unreliable trash. But that's all part of the "imperial" voice he adopts in his writing, which some love and and others loathe. For myself, I have great respect and admiration for Jeff Cooper, and have enjoyed many of his columns, but (not that he actually used it in the quote in question) the journalistic "we" is an obnoxious affectation that must be resisted wherever it is met. If any individual is going to be using the word "we" to refer to their individual self, it had better be Max Von Sydow in Flash Gordon, and he better be ready to blow up the Earth.