glock conundrum

Just because everyone hypes Glock as the only gun to own for self defense doesn't mean it's true.

I'm sure if you shoot it, and keep shooting it you'll eventually be happy.


I've wanted a g19 for years, but each time I decide to pull the trigger I end up buying something I want instead. One of these days I'll come across a deal just like I did with the G20 and 26, I used to own.
 
I once used a Glock at the same time as a 1911, a CZ 75 clone and a revolver.
Switched around between them, depending on the type of match and personal inclination that day.
Boy talk about mass confusion.
But eventually they all jelled and I could switch back and forth without a thought.
But it took a whole lot of practice, far more than a few hundred pulls of the triggers.
If you really want to keep the Glock, just put in the time and it will eventually blend in with the others just fine.
Live fire, dry fire, any kind of fire.
Your brain will accommodate.
Unless you are a scarecrow.
Trust me.
 
The 'grip' and 'feel in the hand' line of thinking holds no truck with me. If it has sights and a trigger, it can be shot, and you can learn how to do it well. Millions of people have figured it out with Glocks.

A case in point: a friend that I recently taught to shoot went out to the range with me. We fired a Glock 19 and a Sig P229. She didn't like the feel of the Sig, saying that the trigger reach was too long. She preferred the feel of the 19. But, she shot considerably better with the Sig. By a significant margin. On the way home, we rehashed the 'feel' doesn't equate to 'performance' argument, and she took a look at the targets and concurred. Clearly, the Sig was the better 'fit' in terms of effect on the target, regardless of how it made her feel, emotionally.

That said, if it isn't issued to you (ie you have no choice), and you aren't using it for a specific purpose (that the Glock accomplishes better than something else), who cares? Use something else.
 
Assuming you have the fundamentals down: stance, grip, sight picture and trigger control, the only way to improve is to pull the trigger about 50,000 times, and then it will seem normal.
 
We fired a Glock 19 and a Sig P229. She didn't like the feel of the Sig, saying that the trigger reach was too long. She preferred the feel of the 19. But, she shot considerably better with the Sig. By a significant margin. On the way home, we rehashed the 'feel' doesn't equate to 'performance
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I wonder if, when a gun does not feel to "fit" right, the shooter concentrates more and has better results.
 
We fired a Glock 19 and a Sig P229. She didn't like the feel of the Sig, saying that the trigger reach was too long. She preferred the feel of the 19.
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Back when I cared for SIG... I had the exact same thing happen with my fiance and I. The P229s DA wasn't working for her. She couldn't dry fire it. The P226, she could but it wasn't comfortable for her.

She prefers my Glock 19. I bought her a Glock 17 and she loves it.
 
Feel and ergonomics truely to not correlate directly to user accuracy. For example I hate the feel and grips and trigger of glocks, but I shoot the smaller ones well (17/19/26/42).

However I had a model 20 and shot it horribly. I got better, but still not nearly as well as I wanted. So I sold it. So grip does and does not effect accuracy. Recoil,muscle memory and fundamentals play the biggest roles I think
 
I wonder if, when a gun does not feel to "fit" right, the shooter concentrates more and has better results.
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When something is harder, it requires more work. If that work exceeds casual excellence, then there is something to be said about "rising to the challenge". On the other hand, you could always just commit to putting in the effort and choose a tool that fits as you do.
 
It's not a Glock but I went through a similar experience with my M&P. I really liked the feel of it and didn't mind the stock trigger, yet I couldn't hit with it to my satisfaction. A 3" group at 2" low at 7 yds just doesn't cut it for me. Then I tried the large grip panel which helped a little. Still not there yet, I added the full Apex kit almost there I just kept working on my grip and shooting it. Now I can shoot out a 1" bullseye at 7 yds fairly regular and absolutely love the gun. Part of the problem is my grip, I shoot mostly revolvers and have to use such a different grip I really need to concentrate when shooting a semi auto, but I'm getting there and enjoying the heck out of it.
 
I carry a Gen 4 Glock 19, love it. Bought 10 Glocks from Austria in 1984, we had a small gun business in Toronto.

That rubbish lined trigger face on the Glock 19s has to go, a smooth one is not that expensive. The Glock 19 is (IMHO) is the best fighting pistol in the World, and goes bang every time you press the trigger.

It is not a target pistol, just press the trigger straight through, repeat shots, release till the click comes to your finger, press again.

Master the punch draw, gun fires when the hands stop their forward movement.

Mine is sitting in my ratty old English dressing gown right now.
 
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It is all about the grip angle and design and how you interface with it. Lots of right handed people shoot left with Glocks. It is hard to explain but there is a particular grip pressure which is required to get rid of that left leaning. For some people that grip pressure comes naturally, for others they develop it and finally there are some who simply do not match up with the Glock.

In my experience if I am not shooting a pistol well after 300 rounds give or take I will cut bait and move on. There are too many guns which I do shoot well to keep sending rounds down range through one that does not work for me. Why tie up money in a gun I don't shoot well and rounds are not free. YMMV
 
Tough audience!

Fixed it. Being doing that same error all my life, mixing the 6 with 9 and 9 with the 6! Dislex?

A funny thing, I carry a Glock 19 exclusively, and all the time here in the great State of Florida. But the only time I have actually pointed a pistol at a human, twice a Hi Power, once a LWColt 45. No need to shoot.

Religion can happen very quickly, trust me.
 
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