More shameless Glock advocacy.

plinker 777 said:
Please see above...not "level". :p
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IS level. the "above" doesn't really sound different than what could be said about
any plastic pistol from a major manufacturer.

I'm not saying they arent good, I'm just saying that they are no longer unique
and all those features found on a glock are found on all their competitors in one form or another.
 
357_fan said:
IS level. the "above" doesn't really sound different than what could be said about
any plastic pistol from a major manufacturer.

I'm not saying they arent good, I'm just saying that they are no longer unique
and all those features found on a glock are found on all their competitors in one form or another.
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The Hi-Point is not level or anywhere near the same comparatively to a Glock.
 
Glocks are pretty good. I've had lots of other guns and for years I was in the anti Glock camp myself, than came across a deal on a gen2 G22 that was just too good to pass up and book the bait. It grew on me darn quick. Had lots of them since but Gen3's never felt right in my hand, gen4 changed that and love my gen4 G17 and I dont ever plan on selling it.
 
It's a bangstick. You squeeze the bloody trigger and if you do your part the bad guy goes down..

JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER BLOODY PISTOL EVER MADE.

Just sayin'.

-S.
 
Most of the list seems correct I suppose, though I think just about every other pistol I own points more naturally than my G22. Frankly I really don't care for the grip angle at all, I much prefer my M&P and P30 in that department. But the Glock's a reliable girl, and while I don't think it looks pretty, I do think it's cool in a utilitarian sort of way.
 
You could substitute most any other modern pistol in the article and be correct. Glock certainly wasn't the first reliable pistol on the market, nor were they any more durable. Heat one up and the frame will melt as will an M&P. About the only two guns I have seen jam up in matches are 1911's and occasionally Glocks. The latter in G!7 mode are easy to limp wrist when shooting around barricades on the weak side.

The gun was, though, very inexpensive to make and was sold to LEO Departments for a song when the guns first came out.

They are good inexpensive pistols suitable for LEO and Military use.

They have a huge fan base, and are popular in 3 Gun and IDPA. The minimum 5lb first pull distracts from it's use in IPSC Production, although Bob Vogel won the IPSC World Shoot in Greece with a stock G17 much to the amazement of the CZ crowd.

The Glock ergonomics fight with a brick as to which is more blockier and the grip angle cause the gun to point high in most hands.

The gun works, has a fan base, and can be a tinkerers dream gun. LEOs use them because their departments issue them.

The Drug crowd plays with them cuz all you have to do is pull da trigger. From the shootings down in Surrey I would suggest da boys need some training cuz da bullets seem to miss, unfortunately, more than they hit.

There are a lot of guns out there suitable for playing the games. and the Glock is but one. If you really are an accomplished shooter I would suggest there are better alternatives than the Glock - Some CZ and Tanfoglio models both come to mind, along with the Walther Q5 Match, HK and you could throw in a SIG or two and likely a few others I have missed.

Take Care

Bob
 
I just had a salesman try to sell me a Glock gen 4. first of all as far as comfort it didn't fit my hand right. I thought for a plastic gun it was way overpriced.
I know the dollar sucks yadda yadda but that applies to everything coming into the country.
Also a far a appearance I thought it was ugly as sin,I think all Glocks are ugly. I would spend more and get a Sig or if money was a issue then the S&W M&P
 
Shooter1of38 said:
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Mark
 
Fluff journalism piece written to take up space on a page. And "fluff" is generous, inaccurate may be closer to the truth. If I found articles like this one in magazines that I subscribed to I would let those subscriptions lapse. I have a Glock, it's a fine gun but no better than any of my other pistols.
 
Glock is a decent gun that became widely popular with LE agencies due to a combination of a very low price (for LE customers anyway) and an excellent sales team. Essentially, Glock sells guns to departments that are trading in their non-Glock guns at such low prices, they might as well be giving them away. At least, that's how things were back in the 80's and 90's when Glock was conquering the market. As Glock became widely popular with law enforcement, many regular folks assumed that to be a result of Glock's mechanical superiority and thus a myth was born.
 
Glock builds some good pistols and I think there was an era during which they offered a superior option to pretty much anything else on the market, service-pistol wise. Well, maybe not the 226; that was also a great pistol. Maybe the USP if you can stand HK triggers.

But now I think there are a number of guns that are at least Glock's equal...the P320 is excellent. So far I am seeing really great things from the FNS-9. HK still builds supremely reliable pistols with triggers that I think are grotesque but some people can really work them. The M&P is certainly...something that S&W built, in every possible sense.

I still shoot Glocks when not shooting 1911s. But that's got more to do with my backpack full of Glock mags and drawer full of holsters than my belief that Glocks are actually superior pistols. I wouldn't pay a grand for one, that's for sure. They work, but I can think of half a dozen options that work.

If I was buying a polymer pistol in Canada today, with no concerns about holsters or competition dimensions or coordinating with my existing supply line etc etc etc, it wouldn't be a Glock.
 
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