Poll: How many people shoot Glocks dead center?

Do you shoot your Glock dead center?

  • Yes, for me Glocks have always naturally shot dead center

    Votes: 51 57.3%

  • Yes, after I practiced a lot, but I used to consistantly shoot mine left/low-left.

    Votes: 11 12.4%

  • No, I shoot mine left/low-left and am working on getting my shots centered

    Votes: 11 12.4%

  • No, I shoot mine left/low-left and can't seem to get centered no matter how much practice

    Votes: 13 14.6%

  • I am left handed and find I am shooting right/low-right but am working on it

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • I am left handed and used to shoot right/low-right, but after a lot of practice I am dead center

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • I am left handed, and always shoot right/low-right no matter how much I practice

    Votes: 1 1.1%
  • Total voters
    89
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I like Glocks, have owned them in the past, and want to own another. But I could never shoot dead center with them consistently. I was always low and to the left, and I still am.

Who here finds that they naturally shoot their Glock dead center? Who finds they shoot to the left, or low and to the left?
 
I'm consistently shooting low/left, 7 or 8 o'clock. I usually take a bit of heat because people are quick to suggest it's a trigger control issue....but I don't think so.
 
Had a G21 and currently have a G17. I was/am able to shoot 'dead centre' with them. The first time I shot a friend's G17 I was amazed at it's ease to shoot and it's accuracy. I ate crow that day and my bias against 'plastic' handguns also ended that day. FWIW, I also bought a S&W M&P 9 shortly after I bought my G17 but I sold it because I found the G17 easier to shoot accurately and quickly. Must be the lower bore axis. YMMV....
 
For those who are shooting left or low-left, what size are you hands and what part of your finger are you using to pull the trigger?
 
I always aim at slightly lower than centre as so i can see the slash and i've adjusted my sites on my g21. My g17 has fixed sites so i aim off slightly to the left.
 
I'm a huge Glock fan. Best desgined pistol ever, IMHO, hands down.

Having said that, why am I shooting left all the time?:confused:

Trigger pull (why not my other pistols?), design, alignment of the sun...


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Back when I used to have a G17, I used to shoot low all the time, so much so that I would compensate by raising the front sight up above the rear sight in my sight picture (not an ideal solution, accuracy suffered pretty badly). I should have tried some higher rear sights, but instead I just sold the gun and moved on to other guns.

Then, a few years later I started shooting friends G19's with Bar-Sto and Storm Lake barrels, and they shot really, really well for me. Much more accurate and right to point of aim with a normal sight picture. Back when I had my G17 I thought it was the lock-up, the tolerances, etc., etc. Now I have no idea what it was.

I bought my own G19 with a black Lone Wolf barrel recently and it is just awesome. Shoots right to point of aim with a standard sight picture. The sights are the stock plastic ones. Rear sight is the normal 6.5mm (one line). I'm thinking of going with the night sights, but it shoots really well without them.

I don't know if it is grip or what. All I can say is that shooting does vary model to model with GLOCK to some degree, even between calibre.

(And yes, I have tried other people's 17 off and on over the years. They still shoot below average for me. They are obviously a good design. The small differences do seem to produce different results in different shooters though).
 
I bought a G20 last year and it came with Lone Wolf barrels on .40 and .357, and the factory glock 10mm barrel. I've shot 10mm and .40 from this platform, and I had no trouble getting on center with either caliber, after let's say 1-2 mags worth of ammo. I had to learn the platform since every gun shoots differently and this was my first 'plastic' gun. I find it shoots as well as I'm capable. It holds true and shoots straight. No funny sight play or over corrections needed.

I would believe that I have normal sized hands, and have no trouble holding on to this large framed glock.
 
I am not a Glock fan, but the two I've had the opportunity to use, both .40s, shot to point of aim at 25 yards and hit a close as I can hit with any handgun. I'll give them top marks for accuracy and the sight picture was also good. The first gun I used was new and worked as designed, but I concluded that I didn't care for the trigger, and this is my biggest objection to the Glock as a protection gun. The second gun I fired last summer, several years after it had been issued and it had developed a problem with the trigger. Each shot required a very heavy pull, heavy enough that I could feel strain in my hand and I have strong hands. This heavy pull caused my group to be strung out horizontally, but I doubt if the group was much more than 2 calibers in height from the lowest to the highest shot, but it cut right across the bull. The difficulty the factory has with regulating fixed sights is coming to terms with what bullet design and velocity the end user will fire. If you can determine what load the factory regulated the sights to, it would be a simple matter to match the ammo to the gun. If I was tasked with carrying an issue gun for protection, I would ensure it worked properly, as I do with my ATC guns.
 
I have fairly small hands, I shot the glock with my index pad. I cannot reach the mag release without tilting the gun. I can hardly release the slide using the slide stop using my strong hand (I prefer to rack it anyway).

On my first try with the G17, the second time I went to the range (Had shot 50 round with usp9 the week before), I think I did pretty good, the pistol aimed pretty naturally to me.

 
Just started shooting a 17 the last couple weeks. Gone from just off the paper to lower left and slowly my groups are creeping towards the center. I havent done anything with the sights but the more I shoot the more my groups migrate to center so I know its due to me flinching or pushing.
 
I can't promise that this will help, but its worthy of checking out.

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