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I feel unclean...

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Little Loudmouth

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I have shot a Glock. I feel unclean now.

Plastic guns...*shudders*
Admittedly it was light, and the recoil wasn't bad, but still...it's a Glock.
Urgh. Give me steel and wood. It's the only cure.
 
The thing that took me the longest to get over with the Glock was that toy-feeling "Zebragun" (remember those?) trigger pull.

I'm over it, though I much prefer the SIG's pull.
 
Step # 1.Take a shower before bed.Scrub vigorously.

Step # 2.Put an open bottle of Hoppes by your bed tonight.

Step # 3.Sleep with an 870 wood stock set tonight instead of the bear.

repeat as required.;)
 
Actually, the one time I shot a glock, I liked it better than my Witness. And my Witness has a "glass-rod" trigger and has some mass.

I shot a G29 (10mm, like the Wit) and it had less percieved recoil than my Witness. I couldnt understand it. On the one hand, I have a 3lb steel-framed Witness that flares up my wrist while shooting, and on the other I have a feather-weight G29 that is heavenly. :confused:
 
I have shot some Glocks and I thought they were pretty good for service weapons. I would not trade a match tuned 1911 for one, but they are good service weapons.
 
Quick, Someone get that man a 1911! :D

Ive shot two, a G17, and a G34.
I only had a chance to run one mag through the 19, but shot a few hundred rounds through the 34. Accurate, so long as I did my part, but the trigger bit my finger. Not to mention the PITA 10 round magazines!
A 19 is on my list,though.
 
Beware, my friend - Glocks will grow on you. Trust me, I know. I used to laugh and scoff and poke fun at Glock owners, swearing up one side and down the other that I'd never own one of those ugly pieces of Tupperware, but lo and behold I rented a Glock 19 and suddenly I was under its spell. I bought one two weeks later and haven't looked back since.

It was hard trying to explain to my beloved Colt that she wasn't the only auto in the safe anymore and that I'd been stepping out with an Austrian chick - especially since she was already jealous that I'd been taking my Smith&Wesson Centennial on vacation instead of her for the past four years - but once I assured her that she'd still be pulling her share of nights on guard duty, and that she'll always have a special place in my heart, everything was fine. :)
 
Plastic ain't bad :D

I have found different modle glocks to shoot/feel different. I like the G22 better then the G27 (I think it was a 27, a baby G in 40.cal :confused: ). I liked the G23 better than the baby .40, but not as much as I like my M40. As far as 9mm, the G17 and is a nice gun, it really suprised me, but I think I would still rather have a CZ. :evil:
 
With great speed, remove thy flesh from thy hands with a brush of iron, for thou art unclean. Wash away thy sins with the most holy Hoppes 9 and cast thyself before the mercy of the great and mighty John Moses Browning! Weep and wail, that the He might hear thy voice and forgive thee thy transgressions, that ye may once again hold that which is highest among pistols. Without thy 1911-A1, thou wouldst be in the dark and wouldst be rended by ravening wolves. But with the Prophet's rod ye shall walk in the light, that we may know ye. Amen.
 
I understand... I bought a 17 to keep in my glovebox as a backup, extra, whatever... then one day it was raining really bad, endlessly, and I thought I'd put it on instead of my nice shiny Colt... and at the end of the day, I still could barely tell it was there, it was so light, even with 18 rounds... and yes, I now wear it almost daily... AARRGGHH!!!!! :D

Mikey D...
 
Quick, where's the Hoppes #9? Somebody grab me an all-steel 1911 and a wood-furniture shotgun!

Croyance: And I suppose you've never shot a Glock either, huh? (I did like the feel of the all-steel Kahr K9 better, too!)
 
geez, y'all allow Glocks up there in Upper Michigan now? And to think, when I grew up there, I thought the ONLY handguns in existence read either "Smith & Wesson" or "Colt's Mfg" on the sides ...

Quickly, LL, run away and get back to our Yooper roots before you become permanently tainted!
 
The horrid "sproing" of the trigger - like something out of a black and white Bela Lugosi horror film. Worse than the creaking doors of a Hitchcock movie. NO NO NOOOOOO!

give me garlic, a cross, and wooden stakes, FAST!!!
 
I grew up on 1911s and .357 Magnums and woodstocked rifles like M1s and Mausers and Lee-Enfields...


I carry a Glock 30 daily, shoot AR15s and FALs by preference and all my shotguns have synthetic stocks.


Nostalgia is good, excellent reliability and durability is better when your life can be on the line.

I still like 1911s and want one, and like milsurps, but..... when things get serious, my Glock is in my hand first. As to the trigger, it's not a matchtuned 3lb 1911 trigger but it does the job for the distance required. It could be far, far worse...... ever shot an AMT Backup DAO?
 
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