loop
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Let me get this straight. A 20-pound spring pushing a firing pin that weighs a few grams can do more damage than a hot .357 SIG round?
Plleeezzzz!
If the breech face is so weak that a firing pin, excuse me, striker, can break it, I don't want to be on the same firing line - ever!
The reason guns aren't dry fired is to protect firing pins/strikers, not to protect a breech face. ie: .22 rimfires, CZ52, etc.
The "line" about dry firing is just that - a line.
Overall, Glocks are pretty good guns. They excel at reliability and are reasonably accurate. They are better in both categories than most of their rivals in their price range.
But, there are many, many guns that are just as reliable and many guns that are more accurate.
Please don't start citing examples of Glock's accuracy. If they were that accurate they would show up on the firing line at bull's eye matches regularly. They do not.
Any attempt to blame dry firing for failure of the breech faces is a cover up of a known issue. If it were a true issue it would have shown up thousands of times in hundreds of other makes.
Since Glocks cost about $75 to 100 to make it is far cheaper to just replace the gun for the manufacturer. When the company has overextended it's commitments on contracts for new guns you get crap like "excessive" dry firing can damage the gun.
Plleeezzzz!
If the breech face is so weak that a firing pin, excuse me, striker, can break it, I don't want to be on the same firing line - ever!
The reason guns aren't dry fired is to protect firing pins/strikers, not to protect a breech face. ie: .22 rimfires, CZ52, etc.
The "line" about dry firing is just that - a line.
Overall, Glocks are pretty good guns. They excel at reliability and are reasonably accurate. They are better in both categories than most of their rivals in their price range.
But, there are many, many guns that are just as reliable and many guns that are more accurate.
Please don't start citing examples of Glock's accuracy. If they were that accurate they would show up on the firing line at bull's eye matches regularly. They do not.
Any attempt to blame dry firing for failure of the breech faces is a cover up of a known issue. If it were a true issue it would have shown up thousands of times in hundreds of other makes.
Since Glocks cost about $75 to 100 to make it is far cheaper to just replace the gun for the manufacturer. When the company has overextended it's commitments on contracts for new guns you get crap like "excessive" dry firing can damage the gun.