Rottweiller w/ idiotic owner vs. Glock 36

[Dr_2_B]

My best friend often regales me with stories of his intellectually challenged, socially inept young intern/co-worker. We'll just call this poor fellow Bill in order to protect the ignorant here. Bill has done such memorable things as projectile vomiting on the waitress at the bar after having laughed off the warnings by others to slow down his alcohol consumption. I'll spare you the numerous other examples that spring to mind as I write this entry.

So it seems Bill owns some sort of undisciplined, out-of-control rottweiller mix. Well, yesterday wonderdog gets ahold of Bill's loaded Glock 36 during the night & just eviscerates the thing. Bill awakens to find the magazine removed, the lower chewed to tatters & the 45 caliber round still in the chamber.

Ya know, most of us feel some folks shouldn't be allowed to own guns. But it seems some shouldn't even be allowed to own pets.

 

[paddling_man]

Another reason not to carry chewtoys instead of real guns.



(Hey, hey... Call off the dawgs. I carried a Glock 36 for the last three days!)

 

[StrikeFire83]

^ I gotta call BS on this. I doubt that a dog, even a large, powerful dog like a rotty could "chew a Glock to tatters." Polymer is incredibly strong stuff.

I've just gonna lay it out there:

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[W.E.G.]

 

[gearhead]

My recently-deceased Boston Terrier (not a large dog but a breed with very strong jaws) could just destroy any sort of rubber or plastic chew toy we ever got her, and in under an hour. I have no doubt she could have done a number on even a glass-filled Nylon handgun frame. A rottie or mix would have an even easier time of it.

 

[StrikeFire83]

^ Still waiting for the pics.

Glock polymer is about as strong as it gets when it comes to "plastic" guns.

Show me pics of a G36 with "the lower chewed to tatters" and then I'll believe it. Until then, this is just a bunch of Bubbas swapping stories 'round the old key board!

 

[daorhgih]

"Best statement of the year" @ 2

" paddling_man

Another reason not to carry chewtoys instead of real guns."
Even tho' I own 4 Glocks !

 

[ceetee]

I can easily believe it happened. I do want to see the pics, if only for a laugh. (LOL)

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

High tech polymer or not, it is still plastic. Chewing it to shreds seems a bit unlikely, but it could leave some pretty good teeth marks in the thin area around the grip, possibly distorting it enough to prevent inserting a magazine. It won't affect the fire control parts, slide or barrel, of course and in fact would fire the round in the chamber if a tooth enters the trigger guard and snags the trigger.

 

[PRM]

Saw a salesman doing a pitch at our State Academy a few years back put a Glock under a patrol car tire. He spun off on it ~ threw the gun about 10+ yards, picked it up, loaded it and fired. Next, he threw it against a block wall, loaded it and shot it. Asked if I wanted to try it with my personal Colt, don't think so. Last trick he did was sharpen his knife on the slide.

OK, I'm not a big Glock fan (little too ugly for my taste)(I grew up with hammered guns). I'm issued one, but have the option of carrying my old Detective Special, which I do. I will say the Glock is one heck of a pistol for the money.

I agree ~ if you can't supply pics of a "tatters" gun ~ I'm Skeptical.

 

[StrikeFire83]

^ Thank you. This whole thing smells like horsepucky.

 

[PRM]

Deleted ~ double post

 

[Fotno]

My largest dog (100+ pound Viszla/Boxer cross) can pop a brand new tennis ball in less than a minute, and chewed clean through one of those 12" diameter reinforced rubber tire toys in an afternoon. I wouldn't want him to get hold of my Glock.

 

[kyletx1911]

steel folks steel(lol)I.E 1911s

 

[scythefwd]

The tire on the patrol car has a whole LOT less pressure going for it due to the amount of contact vs. a k9 tooth, which is sharp and pointy. Take your glock frame, get yourself a mattock with a good point on it, and take your 150lb kid and have them lean on that mattock while balencing on the point on your frame. Bet you get a nice little puncture. My pit mix would put DEEP scratches in a galeleo bone (which is compressed and heated nylon) and much harder than a glock frame in the magwell area.

 

[918v]

Did it look like this?

 

[colt1911fan]

@918V amazing!!!! but on topic doesn't Glocks supposedly "Amazing" warranty cover this? IIRC doesn't Glock have an unconditional warranty.

 

[25cschaefer]

That sucks, good thing it was just a Glock.

 

[labhound]

Another reason not to carry chewtoys instead of real guns.

Hey paddling man as the owner of two dogs that have chewed everything in site and the owner of two plastic pistols I can appreciate the humor of your post. Best laugh I've had on a gun forum in a long time. Thanks!

 

[heeler]

Strikefire,I have no idea how strong Glock plastic is but I can tell you in no uncertain terms my 50 pound Blue Heeler and guardian of the castle can chew up the very largest of Nylabones,and they are strong chew bones,in a matter of hours.
I dont put anything past the ability of a strong jaw dog.

 

[StrikeFire83]

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!

Might not be the G36 we've been talking about, but looks like a dog CAN chew through a Glock. Or at least something can.

 

[918v]

I used to have a dog who thought for a minute that a lamp cord was a chew toy. He survived, but that was a real painful lesson. I think electrifying your Glocks might help to prevent this sort of thing.

 

[Dr_2_B]

Pics or it didn't happen

StrikeFire, I'm trying to see if my buddy can get pics - I hope I haven't overstated it by using the term 'tatters'. Stay tuned.

 

[1911Tuner]

^ I gotta call BS on this. I doubt that a dog, even a large, powerful dog like a rotty could "chew a Glock to tatters."

When my female Rott-Lab mix was a bout 3 years old, I watched her crush a bone the size of my wrist like a pretzel. A full Rott would make short work of a Glock. Believe it.

 

[scythefwd]

http://www.cocothebloggingdog.com/2009/06/which-dog-breed-has-strongest-jaw.html

^ I gotta call BS on this. I doubt that a dog, even a large, powerful dog like a rotty could "chew a Glock to tatters."

The rottweiler has a bite of 300+ pounds of pressure
The German Shepard has 230+
The American Pit Bull Terrier is just shy of 230
The Bull Mastiff - wait for it - exceeds 550 lbs

Now that much pressure on something the diameter of a pencil, pointed, and very hard... your glock doesn't stand a chance. On the other hand... those dogs might be able to damage the actual slide of some of the weaker made guns (hi point due to the zinc, the frame on many low end .22lrs like the Rough rider, and probably just about any brass framed muzzle loader).