Weird thing is with my gen 4 19 8 have tried to limp wristing it couldn't get it to jam.
I met an old lady with fragile looking hands that could limp wrist 3 different peoples G19's including her own with alarming regularity. It's real, not a myth. We made sure that she choked up on the gun higher for a better grip, she was too low and afraid of slide bite. I demonstrated with the slide locked back, that there's nothing under the slide that can hurt you, by dragging it across my hand and arm. We also made sure that she ran hotter JHP ammo only for carry use. No FMJ reload mags like the rest of us. 9mm FMJ is often loaded far too wimpy. .380 has similar issues.
I switched my Gen 4 G34 to a Gen 3 recoil rod for a better extraction pattern. Not a failure really, but definitely a fault.
The groovy trigger shoes on compact Glocks are crap as well. I hate those and install a smooth G34 trigger bar and connector in every one.
The Combat Tupperware has not proven itself yet.
The base gun has been around for less than 40 years and only time will tell how the plastic will hold up with age. In 100 years, I find it unlikely the polymer frame will survive nearly as well as a metal framed gun.
The M1911 remains the benchmark for all other handguns. It has stood the test of time and fought more wars than the Glock could ever dream of, and has been pushed to the extremes time and time again and has come out on top always. Even today certain elite members of the United States armed forces choose and carry the M1911. For 110 years nothing has surpassed it. John Moses Browning was a genius and a gift from God. His pistol is still the finest hand weapon in human history.
How good is the 1911? Make the single stack shooters in USPSA or IDPA compete against any other division, and they'll cry like babies.
If they actually believed that the 1911 was better, they'd have no problem running against production pistols. Awesome triggers aside, the rest of the 1911 hasn't improved enough over the years. Design stagnation = obsolescence eventually, and that day is here.
While the 1911 is much better fighting pistol than it's dying usage in competition suggests. Competition does raise the point: We can do better.
The 1911 is too hard to reload. Draws too slow. Has excessive recoil due to piss poor grip frame ergonomics that haven't evolved at all. A risk of a safety off penalty in drop boxes. Holds only a measly 8-10 rounds. Nearly never has the grip safety tuned properly from the box. Worst quality, and poorest designed magazines in the entire industry. Generally lacks reliability and durability in all but the few rarest examples. And rust, lots of rust.
Some 2011's solve many of these issues, and the upcoming DWX gives me a lot of hope of FINALLY a modern pistol taking over where the 1911 left off. It's really a shame that the 1911 never really evolved.
Sorry, but I have just one 1911 left. For defense or competition, my Glocks run rings around it 99% of the time. There's no contest. My G34, 35, or 41 give me a massive advantage. For that remaining 1%, sure, I'll pull my Dan Wesson Valor from it's safe and dust off my olde Ravens holster.
In 100 years, there will be plenty of Glocks still running perfectly with tons of holster wear, but without a brown cheesy patina. Any steel pistol will last, if it never leaves a safe, except for barbeques in perfect weather.
If JMB was still around, he'd be trying to combine a 1911 trigger and TS, with a CZ slide and magazine, with a Glock frame, and a bore height no higher than the Glock.
I've even sent some of my extras off to other armorers, or a smith.
