G-27 has multiple cows...
I'm not going to criticize other peoples' guns. I'm just going to relate my experiences with the G22 and the G27.
My previous department's issue firearm was the G22. All the LE staff were plainclothes investigators and the G22s were carried concealed.
My G22 was very accurate and very reliable. Misfeeds had to be artificially induced for training purposes, because the guns never failed to extract or feed on their own. Accuracy at braced barricade at about 60 meters for ME was about 12", which is just about as good as I can shoot. Normal distances were all in the black.
I bought a G27 for off-duty/CCW carry. When it works, it is also very accurate for its size and not that bad to shoot. It has, however, had a really annoying reliability problem since the day I bought it-it misfires a round about every 20-30 rounds. When the round is ejected and examined, the primer contains an off-center firing pin strike which apparently is sufficiently off-center to prevent ignition of the primer. After some asking around, I was told that the firing pin on the Glocks is very susceptible to dirt in the channel in the slide and that if there was dirt in the channel, the firing pin might lock up instead of float free and could possibly push the slide slightly out-of-battery to the point where the firing pin would activate but would hit the primer off-center.
Now-I don't know if that is hooey or not, but I made a distinct practice of disassembling the slide at every cleaning (every range day) and thoroughly cleaning and drying the firing pin and extractor channels in the slide. It hasn't helped. The gun still misfires every 20-30 rounds and did so at our last range qual.
My partner carries a .45 USP off-duty. During the same range qual, one of his magazines disasembled itself after he ejected it from the gun. The mag follower jumped the lips and tied the mag completely up until it could be disassembled and corrected.
Other investigators were shooting Sig 9mm pistols (sorry, I don't know the model). Several of them had significant misfeeds.
The point of the story is that nothing-not Sigs, not USPs and certainly not Glocks-are 100% reliable and sometimes the reliability just stinks. Maybe the gun is a lemon or maybe the moon and tides are out of phase or maybe...???
Anyway, if you want close to 100% reliability, try a high-quality revolver. Otherwise, be prepared to fiddle with your auto (or send it for smithing) until you believe it'll go bang when you tell it to.
Just my observations.
I'm not going to criticize other peoples' guns. I'm just going to relate my experiences with the G22 and the G27.
My previous department's issue firearm was the G22. All the LE staff were plainclothes investigators and the G22s were carried concealed.
My G22 was very accurate and very reliable. Misfeeds had to be artificially induced for training purposes, because the guns never failed to extract or feed on their own. Accuracy at braced barricade at about 60 meters for ME was about 12", which is just about as good as I can shoot. Normal distances were all in the black.
I bought a G27 for off-duty/CCW carry. When it works, it is also very accurate for its size and not that bad to shoot. It has, however, had a really annoying reliability problem since the day I bought it-it misfires a round about every 20-30 rounds. When the round is ejected and examined, the primer contains an off-center firing pin strike which apparently is sufficiently off-center to prevent ignition of the primer. After some asking around, I was told that the firing pin on the Glocks is very susceptible to dirt in the channel in the slide and that if there was dirt in the channel, the firing pin might lock up instead of float free and could possibly push the slide slightly out-of-battery to the point where the firing pin would activate but would hit the primer off-center.
Now-I don't know if that is hooey or not, but I made a distinct practice of disassembling the slide at every cleaning (every range day) and thoroughly cleaning and drying the firing pin and extractor channels in the slide. It hasn't helped. The gun still misfires every 20-30 rounds and did so at our last range qual.
My partner carries a .45 USP off-duty. During the same range qual, one of his magazines disasembled itself after he ejected it from the gun. The mag follower jumped the lips and tied the mag completely up until it could be disassembled and corrected.
Other investigators were shooting Sig 9mm pistols (sorry, I don't know the model). Several of them had significant misfeeds.
The point of the story is that nothing-not Sigs, not USPs and certainly not Glocks-are 100% reliable and sometimes the reliability just stinks. Maybe the gun is a lemon or maybe the moon and tides are out of phase or maybe...???
Anyway, if you want close to 100% reliability, try a high-quality revolver. Otherwise, be prepared to fiddle with your auto (or send it for smithing) until you believe it'll go bang when you tell it to.
Just my observations.