Varminterror
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What I might say, ironically so after 3 pages of Glock bashing....
For every real Glock "fan boy" I have met, I can say I've witness somewhere on the order of 50 to 100 glock "anti-fan boys". So many guys like to bash on Glock, just for the sake of bashing on them. It's often the same crap from the haters - it doesn't fit my hand, well, most likely there are dozens of other brands/models which don't fit your and any better, or "it's a plastic toy," (noting the melted Glock picture above), yeah - which has proven over the last few decades to be less prone to failure than most of the metal frame models on the market... It's too ugly - to be honest, you can't sell me on the sex appeal of a GI 1911 either, and I'll gladly admit, oft exalted K19's really don't do it for me either, and I don't buy a defensive pistol for looks, I buy it to save my life.
Anyone who has read any of my posts on Glocks (plenty of them on this forum) has then read my position - I hate to love them. I got my first Glock for free about 12yrs ago on a munitions development contract, and despite a bitter disdain for them - of which I still feel the pangs any time I pick up a Glock today - they've proven well to me their virtues. In their class, owning poly pistols from Sig, Beretta, S&W, Kahr, Ruger, Taurus, & HK, the Glocks, and steel/alloy pistols from Ruger, S&W, SA, Sig, Taurus, Beretta, RIA, and Wilson, for their purpose, Glocks earn their keep - anyone denying that fact is revealing their own irrational bias. Whenever I want to enjoy myself shooting a pistol, I don't reach for a Glock, but I frequently do shoot them, as whenever I might be called to defend myself, I WILL reach for a Glock.
The signature line, "Glock: Perfection," is often poorly received in the USA. If you've spent any time living in Europe, especially doing any engineering or design work over there, our paradigms of "perfection" are very different. In the USA, the land of indulgence, a vision of "perfection" elicits a laundry list of features, whereas in Europe, the height of design is an elegance of simplicity - A running joke I've seen in working abroad: ask an American and a European design engineer both to design the "perfect woman"... The American will likely go on and on about self-made woman with a passion for life, legs up to here, hair color, eye color, down to Earth, sophisticated, sense of humor... Most Italian/German/Austrian design engineering guys I've worked with are much more simple and grounded, they talk about a relationship with someone which propagates mutual happiness. It's a very different view of perfect, but in a much simpler, less ostentatious way. So an American engineer might look at a Mercedes engine without gaskets and talk about inefficiencies in production economy while he's in a board room, but when he gets home at night, he'll look at the same prints he criticized and lust after the elegance of simple perfection we can't match in the states. Simple as sexy is a foreign paradigm.
For every real Glock "fan boy" I have met, I can say I've witness somewhere on the order of 50 to 100 glock "anti-fan boys". So many guys like to bash on Glock, just for the sake of bashing on them. It's often the same crap from the haters - it doesn't fit my hand, well, most likely there are dozens of other brands/models which don't fit your and any better, or "it's a plastic toy," (noting the melted Glock picture above), yeah - which has proven over the last few decades to be less prone to failure than most of the metal frame models on the market... It's too ugly - to be honest, you can't sell me on the sex appeal of a GI 1911 either, and I'll gladly admit, oft exalted K19's really don't do it for me either, and I don't buy a defensive pistol for looks, I buy it to save my life.
Anyone who has read any of my posts on Glocks (plenty of them on this forum) has then read my position - I hate to love them. I got my first Glock for free about 12yrs ago on a munitions development contract, and despite a bitter disdain for them - of which I still feel the pangs any time I pick up a Glock today - they've proven well to me their virtues. In their class, owning poly pistols from Sig, Beretta, S&W, Kahr, Ruger, Taurus, & HK, the Glocks, and steel/alloy pistols from Ruger, S&W, SA, Sig, Taurus, Beretta, RIA, and Wilson, for their purpose, Glocks earn their keep - anyone denying that fact is revealing their own irrational bias. Whenever I want to enjoy myself shooting a pistol, I don't reach for a Glock, but I frequently do shoot them, as whenever I might be called to defend myself, I WILL reach for a Glock.
The signature line, "Glock: Perfection," is often poorly received in the USA. If you've spent any time living in Europe, especially doing any engineering or design work over there, our paradigms of "perfection" are very different. In the USA, the land of indulgence, a vision of "perfection" elicits a laundry list of features, whereas in Europe, the height of design is an elegance of simplicity - A running joke I've seen in working abroad: ask an American and a European design engineer both to design the "perfect woman"... The American will likely go on and on about self-made woman with a passion for life, legs up to here, hair color, eye color, down to Earth, sophisticated, sense of humor... Most Italian/German/Austrian design engineering guys I've worked with are much more simple and grounded, they talk about a relationship with someone which propagates mutual happiness. It's a very different view of perfect, but in a much simpler, less ostentatious way. So an American engineer might look at a Mercedes engine without gaskets and talk about inefficiencies in production economy while he's in a board room, but when he gets home at night, he'll look at the same prints he criticized and lust after the elegance of simple perfection we can't match in the states. Simple as sexy is a foreign paradigm.
