Can anyone tell me why, if Glocks are so good...

[cce1302]

The problem is, _your_ personal experiences pretty much deal with the way _you_ shoot the gun. The video shows exactly what is wrong with Glock: The physics needed to cycle the gun rely way too much on the force the shooter is applying with their gun hand. This is why I am becoming more and more a non-Glock fan. While they are 99%, with _me_ shooting them, I know other guns that will likely be better. If anyone believes this isn't an issue, it is easy enough to repeat that test.

I would like to know if maybe it isn't a gun issue, but a magazine issue. Glock has tweaked their guns here and there, but I know they are on their fourth magazine design. It could just be an issue of either the slide spring, magazine spring, or both.

I don't think that the laws of physics would allow limp wristing to be solved without either making the recoil spring so weak that the gun would beat itself to pieces when held solidly, or making the lower half so heavy as to prevent too much movement during recoil so that the slide could cycle the whole way. someone earlier in the thread said that a pistol should be able to cycle properly no matter how little pressure was put on the grip. I don't see limp-wrist failures as a weakness of any gun design, but as user error.

 

[HICKMAN]

Get a rise out of the glock guys... mission complete.

 

[U.S. Patriot]

To me Glocks are like Chevy trucks. They are not bad. Yet some men, and women think they need them to feel good.

 

[Scutter01]

To me Glocks are like Chevy trucks. They are not bad. Yet some men, and women think they need them to feel good.

And some people hang tacky plastic testicles from the back.

 

[kingnereli]

And some people hang tacky plastic testicles from the back.

From the glocks or the trucks? Then again, I'm not sure I want to know.

 

[teh Nub]

The volume avalable and people get tired of the same old thing over time as well as the different generations of glocks.

 

[Astrocreep]

Tactical Gun Nuts!

Bound to be in the new Topglock catalog...

 

[Indy317]

I don't see limp-wrist failures as a weakness of any gun design, but as user error.

If this was true, then the vast majority of semi-auto handguns would have similar issues...they don't. Those videos are pretty clear, and my experience is pretty clear as well. Glock relies too much on the force of the grip of the person firing the gun more so than other manufactures. I honestly believe this has something to do with the Glock being designed around the 9mm round, and the ballistics of that round, and then they basically take the same frame and use it for 10mm and .40S&W.

 

[Shay]

I honestly believe this has something to do with the Glock being designed around the 9mm round, and the ballistics of that round, and then they basically take the same frame and use it for 10mm and .40S&W.

The .40 frames are the same size as the 9mm. The 10mm frames are not.

 

[Indy317]

The .40 frames are the same size as the 9mm. The 10mm frames are not.

Good to know, but the magazines are the same...right?

 

[HICKMAN]

 

[Agent 007]

Good to know, but the magazines are the same...right?

No. Glock 20, 21, 29 and 30 are their 10mm and .45 ACP platforms, and built on a larger frame with correspondingly sized magazines.

 

[Shay]

Good to know, but the magazines are the same...right?

Nope.

Frames and mags (as well as several other parts) are not the same.

 

[06orange1300c]

Two thoughts here...economy and the need we all have to have a new toy.

 

[DestructionDan]

That makes me look into a Glock

 

[Mgderf]

That makes me look into a Glock

I would have to agree!

 

[shooter521]

That makes me look into a Glock

Funny, it makes me look past the Glock.

 

[wtfd661]

What is this Glock that you speak of

 

[Bigum1969]

What is this Glock that you speak of

I don't see it either

 

[m2steven]

I believe there are so many up for sale because there are hundreds of thousands, even millions of them out there and gun people are the trading-est folks I know.

I have many guns I like to hold and look at much more than my Glocks. But I purchased a new caliber gun yesterday, and I went with a Glock because of 1 - reliability and 2 - price. They are, as has already been put - the best bang for the buck. I trust my Glocks like i trust my revolvers. They are that good.