Limp wristing?

[jefnvk]

Haven't had an issue with it since about my second clip through the first semi-auto I owned.

See it mostly in the first shot from someone who has never shot a handgun before. Tell them to grip better, problem goes away.

 

[jaysouth]

If you own a gun that won't shoot without a good firm grip, think seriously about whether you want your life to depend on it. My primary lineup for defensive carry is a pair of glock 19s rotated every month from carry to range us. I have an aftermarket barrel that I switch back and forth every month to even the wear from range use. I clean each gun when I switch barrels whether they need it or not and replace springs every couple of years.

If you can limp wrist one of my glocks, I will give you a nice crisp $100 bill. At my range, this subject comes up every now and then with the crowd that hangs out there. I always ask someone to demo a limp wrist for me. I have not seen it yet. and the topic suddenly changes. I can shoot my glocks or either one of my Les Baers with only thumb and forefinger of the weakhand in contact with the gun, they all run mechanically perfect. You can't hit anything, at least I can't, but the guns work just like they are supposed to.

A long time ago, a friend in another precinct happened upon a stongarm three on one street robbery. An unobserved forth member of the ghetto social club doing the deed, hit him from behind with a piece of gas pipe. He got his scalp opened up, and right arm broken in two places. With broken arm, he retreived his piece but could not grasp or deploy it. He tried to transfer the gun to his weak hand but dropped it on the ground. He picked up the gun with his left and took down two of the boogers including the one the hit him from behind, despite the grip being slippery from blood. The gun in question was a Colt revolver not subject to mysterious internet malady of "limpwristing"

But ask yourself, if your gun was slippery with blood and you could only get a partial weakside grip and it would not work perfiectly, why would you carry it and use it go defend youself and family?

My wager? You lay a fifty on the bench, I will cover it with a hundred. If you can limp wrist one of my ugly glocks, you get both. If you can't, the fifty belongs to me. The best that I have seen is a "expert" and loudmouth finally put up a five against my ten. Which became mine 50 rounds later.


Internet = BS at the speed of light

 

[Harley Quinn]

limping the 17 L

I have seen the 17L not eject properly. This was prior to the advent of some spring adjustment for wimpy ammo. When you put on compensators and other items (grooves in the barrel to allow the gas to go upward) to off set the rise in the barrel, that release gas's prior to bullet out of barrel, you can have some problems, I have seen and read.

It really is a situation that needs to be corrected, if happening much.

1911's are prone to every problem known to happen, I have noticed. Why I shoot Glocks.

The best thing to do is make sure you are shooting good ammo. The Walmart stuff can have problems.

I have seen some of the real lightweight bullets cause some problems. When you have a spread of 95 grain to 147 it is not unusual for needing a spring change, I have noticed.

So with that in mind. Any other thoughts?

Calling people names and insulting there manhood is silly...

HQ

 

[RPCVYemen]

If you own a gun that won't shoot without a good firm grip, think seriously about whether you want your life to depend on it.

That makes sense to me. As long as FTEs are blamed on the shooters, then they couldn't be fixed. Then Glocks came along, and fixed the problem (along with most of the other modern designs). You can only fix a problem you are willing to take responsibility for! Glock assumed FTEs were their responsibility, and fixed them.

Mike

 

[busy_squirrel]

with only thumb and forefinger of the weakhand in contact with the gun, they all run mechanically perfect. You can't hit anything, at least I can't, but the guns work just like they are supposed to.

This was my experience attempting to limpwrist a Glock 17 and a 27, although I did get a FTS and a couple stovepipes in the G27 with outdated frangible ammo.

 

[hemiram]

If a gun can't be fired without problems regardless of how I grip it, it's not going ot be in my house for long. One of mine is getting another couple of hundred rounds through it as a final break in, and if it doesn't run 100% after that, it will be auctioned off. Every other semiauto I own is immune to grip problems.

 

[unspellable]

action type

Any 22 LR I ever heard of was a blow back, not recoil operated. Bullet weight and recoil have no bearing on the function, it depends on the pressure curve.

On the other hand, a recoil operated pistol depends on cartridge impulse or recoil and doesn't care a hoot about the pressure curve.

I've heard people talk about limp wristing being a problem with pocket sized blow backs, but I'm dubious. They're not recoil operated, the pressure literally "blows the gun apart", albeit in a controlled manner. I would think limp wristing would tend to be a problem with recoil operated pistols having light weight frames.

 

[Harley Quinn]

This is an interesting situation. For the Glock is a center fire weapon but when putting the little 22 kits on it. Then is it a blow back unit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(arms)

Could be why the small amount of weight of the bullet vs the velocity is so important?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoil_operation

I'll have to see if I can help this problem out with a different spring. Hmmm

Might be something to pursue or not

http://www.marvelprod.com/pdf/gungames.pdf