Old Glocks

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My Gen3 G-17 is a sweet shooter, I'm having a tough time finding 9mm range ammo lately, so I don't get to shoot it much.
 
too viewed the Glock as a plastic POS when they first arrived. I was firearms officer for an agency that allowed it's agents to carry whichever handgun they preferred as long as it was 9mm. In 1987, I carried an S&W 459 and several agents purchased Glocks. When I went to qualify them, I inspected them to insure proper function. I was amazed at the design, amount of plastic (polymer), number of parts, and ease of assembly/disassembly. I prophisied their Glocks would not last two years without major parts replacement (we qualified quarterly going through 180 rounds of +p+ 9 mm per agent with an additional 500 rounds, per annum, issued each agent for practice). I also expected their scores to be significantly diminished. I took them through the course of fire twice and was pleasantly surprised to see their scores increased rather than decreased as I'd expected. After they finished, I asked if I could borrow one and fire it. I went through the course and was pleased with the weight, grip, ability to double/triple tap w/o having to readjust the grip, accuracy and feeling of lessened recoil. In fact, I fired about 500 rounds through the several Glocks (a mix of 19s and 17s) each with the same experience. I was sold. I too bought a Glock 19 that same week and carried it for the next 17 years of my law enforcement career (changing from the 19 to the 26 when they first became available). I retired in 2004 and still carry the 26, qualifying, quarterly, with the same course of fire. I must have at least 20k + through it. I also shot IPSC and IDP competiton with it and the only malfunction I've ever experienced was a broken slide lock spring (an anomaly) and the only cleaning I do is a patch through the barrel, on occasion and a small drop of oil for lubrication. Our agency went with Glock (for our issued sidearm) in 1989 and I went through their armourer's course. We seldom had parts breakage or replacement. I believe the Glock series of pistols to be one of the best designed if not the best. I do own and shoot Colt 1911s (I shot bullseye with the Army) Baretta 92F, S&W, Ruger, Walther, SIG and Springfield Armory pistols as well as revolvers. They're all good and work as designed. For bullseye, nothing beats the 1911. For carry, I prefer the Glock. It works right out of the box no tweaking required.
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Heh! You MUST have worked for an agency that didn't require a writing sample for hiring. :evil:
 
I have a G17 from 1994 with tens of thousands of rounds through it. Took it to an armorer and the internals were all replaced. Still going strong.

I LOVE the Gen 2 grip on the 17. :)
 
I jumped on the Glock bandwagon early on in the 1986 or 87 time frame, and impressed with the first I bought a second gun within a year. I have heavily used my two first generation Glock 17 pistols and up until 2000 I had no issues with either.

In 2000 I went to Front Sight in Pahrump Nevada with an old friend I worked with in Washington DC. We did the four day pistol class. They recommended you bring two of what ever you were going to use in case one broke. Well the thought of possibly having guns stolen by shifty airline employee I did not want to take anything new I had a lot of money in, so I decided to take my two well used first gen Glock 17 pistols. I did not abuse them but I would say I neglected them as far as cleaning and oiling out of interest in seeing how much I could ignore them before they would fail, but they kept chugging along for well over a decade without a lot of attention... However the first day in the desert the one developed a broken trigger spring and so I switched to the other. Within a day it developed a chip in the extractor and began having issues ejecting. Murphys law was kicking in it seemed. So I swapped the upper off the one and put it on the other and shot the rest of the course with no other issues. Caught their armorer the last day I was there and he repaired the two. Thirteen years later and many thousands of rounds more they are still chugging along just fine...

Here is one of those two guns from that trip in its original box with cartridge holder. The other guns below it are a second and third generation Glock 17. They may not be beautiful but they are tough, rugged guns that will serve well even if they don't give the pride in ownership you get from a beautiful Colt, Luger, Smith & Wesson, etc...

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Teachu2 said:
Most of my Glocks hit 500 rounds the first weekend I owned them - and a couple the first day....
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Unfortunately, this is not a viable plausibility now a days.
 
I picked up my gen 2 model 19 in 1995. Only go about 5k rounds through it. A little carry ware on the slide and that's about it.
 
I have a Glock 17 that I think was made sometime early on in 1986. I don't know for sure how many rounds have gone through it but it appears to be holding up quite well with no problems or inconsistancies to report. A few minor nicks and scratches can be found on the slide but nothing I'm really concerned about; just honest wear. All in all still in great shape for a Gen 1 gun.
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Fortunately, I have a couple-thousand rounds of 9mm on hand, with components to make couple-thousand more. Recently acquired 10k cases, and have 10k bullets ordered. When Precision Delta delivers the bullets, I'll have enough to start selling to my friends locally. ;)
 
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