Shot my first glock! IT Aint no 19 Eleven!

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oberkommando

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All jokes aside, shot a G36 at range that some guy bought that day. Found it very compact and accurate, a little more muzzle jump than my full sized 1911s but that is expected. Only problem was slide release would not release for the owner or my brother, I got it to go with a an effort, but am stronger than most.

The thing I hated about that compact is that my first and only group with it was tighter than all my 1911 goups that day :(

I will give you glock guys some credit for all your zealous liking of that ugly thing, it can shoot. Sights were nice to.

I guess it is fitting for a 1911 owner to shoot the only glock made that is a single stack. Like my 1911 tigger better, and wont be trading them in anytime soon, but for compact concealed who knows?

The reason for the 1911 worship by some is that it is just a gun like a Harley is just a bike. Might leak oil, get beat by the honda's, cost a fortune, and be less reliable than the imports but its still a Harley and I will take it over all the rest. :D
 
"IT Aint no 19 Eleven!"

Thank Gaston for that! :D



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Make mine lean, mean, and 9x19!
 
If you even half-way liked the G36, then you owe it to yourself to try a G30. The G30 is more accurate, IS concealable, and takes hi-cap mags.

BTW, on a Glock, it's a slide stop lever, not a slide release. You cycle the slide to chamber a round, when the slide's locked back.

The G36 is the only Glock that I don't like.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by oberkommando:

I guess it is fitting for a 1911 owner to shoot the only glock made that is a single stack. Like my 1911 tigger better, and wont be trading them in anytime soon, but for compact concealed who knows?

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One of the guys I shot with recently is an IDPA 4-gun master, and a hobby gunsmith. He didn't have his Glock with him during the match, but I'm told that he can do a trigger job on a Glock that makes it as nice as any 1911... I've talked with this guy a lot (he wasn't the one bragging about the trigger) and know that he KNOWS his guns, how to tune them, and how to shoot them. (He won our local match, running away, shooting a revolver. We even had an IPSC shooter with an illegal gun (by IDPA standards, weighted mags) who reloaded on the move; he was 3 seconds behind the revolver shooter.... I was impressed.

This guy's type of Glock would be an interesting gun: one that has the durability and easy handling and capacity of a Glock, and a trigger as good as a 1911...
 
i have a G19 and G30 and love em. i remember my first impression of the G30 before i bought mine. another guy at the range had a full sized 1911 and a G30. he let me shoot a couple mags thru each. i started with the 1911 and the recoil was more than my berettas that i was shooting that day but managable. then i picked up the G30 and was ready for the gun to fly out of my hands in recoil but it was much less than the 1911 and weighed half as much (don't know the exact weights). it was also amazingly accurate. there's just something about them Glocks!
 
FWIW, it took me about 10 years to overcome my dislike of Glocks. What made me a true Glock believer was to actually shoot one! I still like 1911s just fine. But Glocks have become my preferred shooters.
 
The key for me personally is utmost reliability. The 3 Glocks my dad and I own (21, 27, 30) have been 100% reliable straight out of the box. We have also owned about a dozen or so 1911s (mostly Colts, but a few other variants) and have noticed at best that maybe 30-40% are completely reliable out of the box. A gunsmith once told us that you have to "massage" them to get it right. I think thats a bunch of BS. I don't want to have to massage anything to have it function reliably. A friend of mine about 20 years ago bought a Colt Commander and it was a complete lemon from the get go. No matter how many times he tried to massage it it wouldn't feed reliably. I think he finally dumped it. Don't get me wrong, I like the 1911s. If you get a good one they are awesome handguns. But after I discovered Glock about 10 years ago, I will stake my life on my Glock 21 until the day I die. Also, it's more accurate than my Gold Cup.
 
I also consider myself a 1911 man. Springfield Armory Trophy Match and Kimber Gold Match are my main guns for IDPA and USPSA. But I do own glocks to shoot GSSF. Take some getting used to. But they ain't that bad. G-26, G-17, G-34. My flock of glocks is growing.
 
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