One stupid question (Glocks related)

burning a glock

Irfan,
I think you should adopt another hobby.What in the world possessed you to try to burn and slice a Glock?Good thing your not into rare paintings or sculpture.Go burn and slice a Paraordnance!:D :D
 
Mystery solvent

I hope your friend sent the damaged Glock and the mystery solvent to Glock. I'm sure they'd like to see what powerful solvent will melt a Glock. I've seen people use everything from brake cleaner to cheap Eastern European vodka to clean Glocks without nary a problem.

It's also odd that you say that you couldn't take the Glock vibrations. If anything steel and alloy frames transmit more shock to the hand and vibrate more than a polymer frame which distributes the shock of recoil throughout the hand. That's one of the reasons why most people that fire a Glock side by side with a steel or alloy frame pistol in the same caliber say a Glock recoils less. YMMV.:p
 
With regard to the "lifetime" of the polymer frame.. Does anyone have any data on how long that type of polymer/plastic/nylon should last before it becomes brittle?
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A couple of years ago, someone asked the same question at Glocktalk.com. The post gave a lot of scientific facts about the lifespan of a polymer frame.

I did a search on it but couldn't find it. Anyway the frame will last longer then you and I.
 
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And one time, at band camp......
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I aggree with L90814, what else did you do in "band camp"?

I have a NIB Glock 26 on the way... and I promise... the only "Glock Camp" stories I will put on this board is ...how many rounds I have fired through it... and how small my groups were!!!

Happy Glock shooting to all!!!
 
I just got to thinking about some of my first experiences with the Glock. A buddy of mine also ordered a glock the same time I did and the serial numbers actually turned out to be consecuative.

But I digress from my humorous story.

While firing his glock my buddy stopped to insert a fresh high capacity 17 round magazine but he dropped it onto the cement. The magazine was of the early type that did not have the button hole in the middle of the floor plate. When the plastic magazine hit the cement the floor plate flew off , the spring shot out and loaded cartridgeds flew everywhere. By that time I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. You should have seen the experession on my buddies face. I tried to console him by saying. I guess that is what we deserve for buying a platic gun with a plastic magazine.

If you doubt this story one bit by all means try it yourself because I did the same thing accidently myelf a few months later on the cement sidewalk in front of my house. I was in a hurry to leave and the mag slipped out of my hand and now the joke was on me. w.r.
 
Burning Glocks, cutting Glocks and now we are throwing our mags on the ground. You guys don't take very good care of your pistols.

Whenever I go shoot in competitions there is a fairly standard rule that states, if a person drops anything, but an empty mag, they are done for the day.

Maybe some of you guys should look into new hobbies. I hear golf clubs hold up fairly well when you hit things with them. :rolleyes:
 
Wild Romanian,

You and your alleged buddies have the darndest luck with guns!

More kooky mishaps with firearms (coincidentally, only the ones you hate) happen to you guys than any twelve dozen people I've known in all my years in the gun business.

Dropping loaded Berettas that go off, acid cleaners leaping from the engine rebuild area to disintegrate Glock frames, box lots of detonating P-38's, whole batches of M-1 carbines that can't fire two consecutive shots without a jam, the only Glocks I've ever heard of that won't even feed ball, prototype Ransom rests sent to you a decade before anyone else gets them, magic 50,000psi SAAMI-spec .40 ammo, etcetera, etcetera.

This latest one has slayed me, though. The magic exploding Glock mag. My neighbors will be pissed at you, because as soon as I find my digital camera, I'm gonna go fling a few loaded factory Glock and Chip McCormick 1911 mags down the stairs. Back with pics.

I wonder if your luck with firearms is some kind of local field or if it's only transmitted by touch?
 
Tamara, did you forget about all the CZ's he's tried that had "gritty" triggers? Or did you simply get tired of typing his BS encounters before you got to that one? :D

Man, the internet brings out all kinds! :rolleyes:

R6
 
Well, so far I've tossed G19, G21, G23, G26, G29, G30, and G33 mags, some loaded, some not. They still all look like, well, like Glock mags. The lady from the downstairs apartment was out walking her dog and looked at me funny. I'm not about to toss one of my 1911 mags as I only have three; maybe if I promise to replace one of my roommate's Shooting Stars from our stock at work...

Update:
Hopefully I won't have to buy a new McCormick mag. Despite gentle underhand toss down five stairs (unlike end-over-end flings given to Glock mags), two rounds spit out of the 1911 mag. Feed lips don't appear bent... The only discernible damage on the G29 mag in the picture (which spit out zero rounds after a much more vigorous toss) is those two dimples in the floorplate. Then again, the G29 was the gun that was on my motorcycle during the horrific accident of last summer, so those two pinhead-sized nicks may have come at the same time as the tiny scuff on the right rear of the slide. You know, from when it slid down the road at forty-some-odd miles-per-hour with a 425-pound motorcycle on top of it. Oh, those fragile Schlocks! ;)

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How about some pictures of your buddy's disintegrated Glock frame? Or the mag? Or a "blown up" P-38?

Inquiring minds want to see... er, know. ;)
 
LOL. :D Tamara, great posts! You do have a way with words.

BTW, I've accidently had my Glock 21 hi cap magazine fall on cement before, and it comes out fine. I truly wonder how this gentleman can have such bad luck with every gun that is not either a 1911, Browning HP, or Sig P210. It truly amazes me. ;)
 
During my IPSC practice every Saturday night, I shoot at an indoor range with a concrete floor. Every mag change I do, I FLING the mag out to make sure I've got an empty mag well to put a fresh one in, and I've NEVER had a mag "grenade" on me; none of the Para/Colt/CZ shooters I shoot with can say the same. I'm with Tamara on this; I'd like to see some pictures.:)
 
I've actually observed split Glock mags at the back of the feed lips. It was my buddy's old .40, and the older mags apparrently(?) did not have the same steel reinforcing at the top of the magazines. He sent them in to Glock, and got back new mags with no problems. At the time (having little experience with "Tupperware" guns), I chided him, made fun of his cheap plastic pistols, and kept right on shooting my steel Gold Cup. And, of course, down the road, when my Gold Cup developed some problem or another, he laughed; paybacks are sheer hell, let me tell you. ( :) )

But the point is, I've never seen my buddy's problem duplicated. He had a couple of lemons. Completely anecdotal, statistically unimportant lemons. When they were replaced, the problem was fixed, and he's never had another lick of problems with his Glock.

I don't own one, and don't want one, but that's for personal reasons. Not because the material is too soft (It only has to be harder than my hands), or fragile (I can't break them any easier than I can my Government Model), nor because the magazines are more breakable.

The vibration statement is just bizare. One of the things about polymer frames that has most impressed me has been the reduction in felt recoil for a given weight pistol. Obviously a polymer 9mm of a given size will weigh less than a steel 9mm of the same size-- compare a G17 to a Browning High Power-- but ounce for ounce, the polymer transmits less shock, in my opinion. I was shocked the first time that I shot a Kel Tec 9mm next to a .380 AMT Backup, as the Backup seemed to kick more, though it was heavier and fired a more anemic cartridge. Some of this had to do with the increased width of the beckstrap of the gripping area, but I fully believe that the composition of the frame had something to do with it.

But we appreciate the warnings of the possible dangers to our firearms. It had never occured to some of us to worry about these things before.

--L.P.
 
How about some pictures of your buddy's disintegrated Glock frame? Or the mag? Or a "blown up" P-38?

Inquiring minds want to see... er, know. ;)
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Tamara,

There's always one in the crowd that likes to stir the pot.. I think we ALL know who ours is... :D

Rick
 
Tamara,

You talked about dumping your bike last year, sorry to hear that. But you told us the glock got scratched up durring the "ride" how about the bike?

ps: I can feel for ya, I dumped one at 55 and I thought I would never stop sliding. (bad thing to have a front tire go at that speed, even 18 years later I can still remember it!)
 
Dropping loaded Berettas that go off, acid cleaners leaping from the engine rebuild area to disintegrate Glock frames, box lots of detonating P-38's, whole batches of M-1 carbines that can't fire two consecutive shots without a jam, the only Glocks I've ever heard of that won't even feed ball
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Tamara: I suggest you go back over some back issues of Gun Week magazine. In It they documented one of the Illinois Police depts. I believe it was The peoples republic of Chicago. They had to send back their entire lot of Police .45 Glocks. If I remember the article correctley they sent back 500 of the turkeys. None of them worked. This was back when the .45 Glock first came out. It is common knowledge amoung people who are wll informed and well read that the early Glock .45 had magazines that did not work.

By the way I had one of the first Glock .45 's and mine did not work either, W,R,

I have been called close minded about new wave pistols but if I was I would not even have bothered to purchase any of them or test fire them. I try to give most of them that I buy a fair shake so to speak but I just have found to many draw backs to them. W.R.
 
Tell me this oh wise ones. If the damn Glock early magazines had no problems why in the hell did Her Glock have to once again redesign any of his perfection.

Lets face the truth now. He redesigned the damn piece of crap because it was doing just what I experienced. They flew apart when dropped. I proved this twice by accident myself.

The new Glock magazines have a button in the middle of the floor plate to help prevent the magazines from flying apart when you drop them.

Ever bother to dissassemble the early Glock magazines. You simply have to squeeze the sides of the magazine to remove the floor plate.

Now when you take a look at this idiotic design even a moron cannot fail to notice that if you dropped it and the magazine flexed just like plastic always does on an impact, that the floor plate is obviously going to come loose.

Sorry but none of your hot air is any good on this example of Glock imperfection.
 
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