Unlucky Glocksters!

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I feel the same way Marshall! I don't own one because I was not born with the God given gift of being able to palm a medicine ball... therefore I can not pull the trigger on a Glock without pushing the frame with the base of my index finger. They are extremely reliable and sure they have problems but every firearm manufacturer has problems.

I have these tiny little hands.... and the Glock makes em look even tiny...er. My buddy said he would hold it for me but no self respecting man would allow that.
(If you haven't seen the Burgerking commercial yet you probably won't find this funny.)
 
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I have owned 3 Glocks,one 9mm,and two 40 S&W cal.Never had I problem with any of them.In fact,when I wat the armourer and training Officer for my old Police Dept. we carried 9 mm Glocks.During shooting sessions,the only problems we had was the occaisional stove pipe jam,and it only happened to a few of out Female Officers.I truly believe this was because of them having too limp of a grip on the pistol.When we went to 115 gr +P+ ammo,the occaisional stovepipes stopped.
We then went to the 40 S&W Cal. and all 200 guns worked flawlessly.In fact if I remember ,we had to send one back and it was replaced.So my question is,where do all these failure reports come from?What I think we have here is the old "Hey My Chevy is better than your Ford thingy".My personal feeling is that the Glock is the finest,ugly gun out there.It goes bang every time without fanfare and usually for less money that S&W,Sig and Berretta.
 
I work with this guy ... whose buddy's uncle's ex-wife's brother-in-law's best friend just had a kaboom with his Glock 23 ... I'd show you all the time-stamped/dated, un-PhotoShopped pics with the sworn and notarized affidavit that this incident really occurred ... but since the Glockster in question is an ex-Navy SEAL currently on an undercover assignment somewhere in SouthWest Asia for the CIA, and no one else on this forum has the TS/SCI clearances and need to know ... well, you'll just have to take my word in this very post that a Glock actually ka-boomed.

Lighten up, Glocksters. Now you are feeling what us 1911-lovers have had to deal with, lo these many past years since the advent of the accumulated wisdom of the mighty Internet Gun Forum Community. While you may never know spiritual enlightenment and the true righteousness as we 1911 folks do, you should ... just deal with it.
 
That's right Old Dog, don't even get us started on the mamzy pamzy 1911. At least the 1911 is purty. Glocks are buck-toothed, bald, belly over the rodeo buckle, fugly. Not to mention they don't work. ;)
 
Again, the reason I have a problem with the KB posts is that I'm sure more than half of them are made up. Made up stories about a product's inherent safety would be a great way for a "consumer safety group" to get a product pulled off the market. Anyone see how this could become a problem? It also shows gun owners being irresponsible. You're doing incorrect handloads. You're shooting them anyway. You're damaging your gun as a result and possibly sending flying debris towards others at the range. Yeah, that's real funny. Post it on the internet, it won't come back to haunt you (or us) later...
 
What He Just Said...

I Agree! :mad:

It's also a shame to clog up a useful forum with that garbage. :barf:

Go make the family miserable... :(

Create hatred in the office... :fire:

--Ray
 
:rolleyes: Glock vs. 1911

Chevy vs. Ford

Harley vs. Honda
See where I'm headed? Personaly I prefer the all steel 1911's, because they make a better club :neener:
 
I’ve owned 10 Glocks. Only 3 haven’t KaBoomed. Opps, make that 2, I just heard another one KB in another room. Sorry no pictures.
 
There is no brand of auto that is trouble free. I own my glocks for around 10-15 years, and they work just as good as the day I got them. I can't say that about a couple dozen other "name brand " , expensive guns, that I got rid of. Other than revolvers, they are one of the few guns that work well out of the box. Without firing 500 rounds thru them to "break them in. I have this problem with guns that don't fire when you pull the trigger, I dump them immediatlly, don't care who made them. If it screwed up once, it's going to do it again, and I have way too many other things to be concerned with, than if my gun is going to fire should the situation arise. I have 5 handguns that fire every time I pull the trigger, two are glocks. One is a titanium Taurus, a Seacamp, and a Para p13. I could take them to the range right now, and if one misfired, or jammed, for any reason, Gone.
 
I have a Glock 36 and have never had a failure or a malfunction of any type. The only problem I experienced was when I bought a magazine extention to get one more round. I didn't change out the magazine spring, and it wouldn't lock on an empty magazine. So, I went back to the factory magazine.

I have many friends that own Glocks, and no one has told me of a problem. These are very knowledgable folks that know how to shoot, handle, and maintain their weapons no matter what brand. If they reload, they know what they are doing and also always always follow safe and proven reloading practices.

At the range though, its a different story. I cannot believe what I see and what I hear that some dumba##s do-not to mention a lack of shooting competency and skill. They will profess to the almighty that they know what they are doing and can shoot. When something goes wrong or they can't do better than a shotgun pattern at even 10 yds, they blame the gun. Mea culpa? Can't be. Yet that is usually and exactly what went wrong.
 
I'm no Glock Fanboy. The last handgun I bought was a 1911 and I carry it now.

That said, I carried my Glock 19 for 13 years. Who knows how many rounds I've fired in those 13 years. Never had a problem. My wife carries it now, and I don't worry at all about her safety with it.

For plinking/general stuff, I've used whatever cheap FMJ brass cased ammo was available, and for carry, it's had Cor-bon 115 grain. I've never had a hickup with either.


-- John
 
There is a current thread on the XD forum in which a guy posted pictures of a Glock left for four years in a gun safe that had moisture problems and had completely rusted shut.

He shows pictures assebled & pictures disassembled (along with a mallot he used to knock the slide off).

Fast forward a few weeks and he shows a box of parts with a refinished Glock slide in it. Poster states that Glock started to do a refurb and decided the gun was too far gone to refurb and sent it back to him like that, sans a few minor parts.

Here comes Glock Kool-aid drinker accusing poster of photo shopping the pictures and that there is no way any of this could be true. He wanted proof that gun was sent back to Glock.

OP posts scans of both the invoice from Glock and a letter stating the gun was too far gone and if he wanted a replacement they would sell him one for $350.

Kool-aid drinker is never heard from again.

That is the abridged version, you can go see it for yourself (it's an entertaining read) but the moral of the story is "Be careful what you ask for, you may get it."


(PS: I have no dog in this fight, I think Glocks are good guns, just don't like them myself for various reasons.)
 
Geeeez

Ok, a few Clocks had a problem, so has every other gun manufactured.
The Glock is what it is, a simple pistol with the minimum of parts build very well, that you either like or dislike the grip angle and find them either good looking or don't like the looks.

There. The vast majority of Glocks work as advertised. They go bang and the bullet hits where you aim.

The vast majority of H&Ks work as advertised. They go bang and the bullet hits where you aim.

The vast majority of 1911s work as advertised. They go bang and the bullet hits where you aim.

The vast majority of Hi-Points work as advertised. They go bang and the bullet hits where you aim.

See the connection?

Now, go shoot whichever one you like. If you don't like the way a Glock looks, then take the pickle out and admit they are decent shooter. If you don't like the way they point, then buy something else.

If you think 1911s are the only gun around that matters, then time to de-fudd and join the 21st century. If you think Glocks are the end all, be all, time to grow up and admit that other guns are good as well.

I own Glocks, 1911s, HKs, you name it, I probably have it or have had it. I carry at various times, an HK P7, a Glock 19 or a Sig P220. I even carry a Kel-Tec P3AT when im wearing shorts and a t-shirt. They all work for me.

Most guns are far over the 99% NON failure rate. Time to admit that, and move on.
 
It is a conspiracy against glocks!! People are out to defame the name!! Hurry put your tin foil hats on before they get you also! :)

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OK,Glocks are great..... So why are they so hated by so many? Why the reputation for blowing up? Why are so many people down on Glock?
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Because they are good guns and people who aren't loyal to their brand have to make up excuses why they didn't buy the more practical firearm.

Us 1911 owners and aficionado's deal with the same crap.... most of the time from Glock owners who are mad that their guns can be melted down to make bowls and cheap picnic utensils.... lol
 
Ya I get a kick out of them too. I own a Glock 22 and 27 have about 3,000 rounds fired between the two. I have never had a kb and I reload for them. I own a Pakerized Springfield loaded 1911 with about 1200 rounds through it. I have fired hp,fmj and wad cutters through it and it has never and I mean never jam or fail to fire and I have left it the way it was when I got it. I also have a Smith 686plus with about 1,000 rounds through it. All of which are handloads of 158gr and 180 gr bullets loaded hot and never had a problem with it and yes it has the lock that will lock it up on its own someday down the road. Come to think of it I own roughly 36 firearms from shotguns, rifles, muzzle loaders, pistols and revolvers and have had no problems expcept for a Bushmaster predator rifle. I sent the predator back and got it back in a week and the problem was gone. Maybe I'm just lucky? Oh and my Beretta 92 inox's locking block hasn't broke yet either. I am also planning on buying an M&P .45 in the next couple of months I hope it doesn't rust up on me,lol.

p.s the prob with the bushmaster was a miss aligned gas block and it was short stroking and not picking up the next round.
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You are lucky. I've owned 7 autos in my whole life, one being a Kahr pm9. That little thing gave me tons of trouble from the get-go. That includes (in chronological order) :
1: A trigger that didnt reset every couple shots and jamming (FTF)
2: A trip back to Kahr at my expense with an order to throw on night-sights
3: A returned Kahr that still had FTF problems with NO night-sights, but I got billed anyways.
4: A trip back to Kahr at their expense, returned back to me with night sights.
5: A gun that still didn't feed several different types of 9mm ammo.
6: A drive to the local gunshop and selling it for half the price I paid.

You have all those guns, and hardly one problem. The gun gods must love you:)
 
Actually, I have a kimber seriesI, and several revolvers, I have owned several autoloaders, and I find Glocks to be the best of the best in terms of reliability, and practical accuracy ( I can make a ragged, 17 round 2" hole with my G-17 at 25 feet) No need to go any further in terms of practical carry.
 
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