What Generation of Glock should a guy stay clear of ?

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Was wondering what you/us Canadians think instead of the Americans
What are the good/bad points of these different gen of Glocks? any of them in the stay the hell clear of category?
 
enefgee said:
Early Gen 1's (or pre-Gen 1's) the trigger return spring broke (what a PITA)
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a trigger spring is only $2.50 so regular maintenance of the pistol should be done at say 5k rounds...replace the recoil rod/spring assembly ($7.50) and replace the trigger return spring ($2.50)..... every 20k rounds replace the striker spring.

of course "if" the trigger spring breaksduring usage most people will not even notice it because the recoil of the gun will reset the trigger, most brokwn trigger springs are found during dry fire when the trigger will not reset, all you have to do is push it forward though and it will reset.

as far as what generations to avoid, I would say the Gen 4 right now... in the 9mm pistols there has been some talkthat the dual recoil spring setup while optimal for the .40 caliber is proving to be a problem in the 9mm shooting "lighter" factory loads.... using nato spec 9mm seems to fix the problem or +P stuff, glock supposedly has a new lighter spring setup available if you phone them and ask for it, or glockmeister has a replacment guiderod assembly that allows usage of the original flat spun springs from ISMI or factory gen 3 recoil springs.

the gen 2's are great guns for people who do not like the finger grooves, but then your missing the light rail (brownells just came out with a rail system to retrofit gen2's), the gen 3's are great.... finger grooves and light rails.... the gen 3.5's are even better with the standardized locking block between the 9mm and .40's.

frankly the best of the bunch in my opinion is the gen 3.5's with RTF or RTF2.... very grippy and easyto hold, seriously with the new gen4's and the rtf gen 3.5's I think glock is going to put the houge/pacymer grip socks out of buisness, makes the gun very easy to control with sweaty hands.
 
I start shooting pistol while glock was sold about thousand dollars a piece, I couldn't afford the gen 1 and 2 but they are still outstanding guns. the gen 3.5 that I have IMO is the best. the gen 4 has mixed review but I think they are not as bad as people think, it is all about how much you know about your gun. For six hundred dallors a shooting iron. Glock is unbeatable.

Trigun
 
Avoid any Glock manufactured before mid-October 1991 unless they were sent back for a 6 part "upgrade". Glock 17 serial numbers affected are AA through XG
Those six parts are:
1. Extractor
2. Spring-loaded bearing
3. Firing pin safety
4. Firing pin safety spring
5. Firing pin / striker
6. Trigger bar

I have a gen 2 Glock 17 manufactured in 1992 (serial num beginning with Z) and think it is a very good pistol. I rarely cleaned or lubed it (maybe every 1000 rounds) and ran mainly cast lead handloads for years. Always went bang and was plenty accurate enough for IPSC purposes.

Now I use factory jacketed ammo and *never* clean or lube it, not even a drop on the slide rails. I call it a reliability experiment. You can call it being lazy. Either fits. Regardless, I won't give it any care until it fails to fire. I've been waiting for that for a hell of a long time.

Perhaps I am accelerating wear, but I paid 525 bucks for it 18 years ago and have got *tons* of use out of it. If it stuffed up permanently tomorrow (yes I'm going to the range with it tomorrow), I figure I'll have got my money out of it. More likely it will keep chugging away until *I* get stuffed up permanently :)
 
I like Gen3 but Gen 2 or 2.5 seems to better slightly better quality.
I've had 1 gen 2, 1 gen 2.5 and, 3 gen 3 and the only one that had problems was a gen3 G19. I wouldn't use a gen 4 and some people have had problems wth them.
 
enefgee said:
Yes, the recoil "should" reset the trigger - ever experienced it? Sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't (or didn't, if you catch my drift)
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Yes, I have been shooting glocks for 20 years now... have seen everything break at one point or another an have owned 80% of the available models out there... my point is that even "IF" the trigger spring breaks it does not disable the gun.... same deal with the locking block, even "if" it breaks it will not disable the gun like for example a beretta will.

and again... looking at the price list a triggerspring is $2.50 and a new locking block is under $30, again the trigger spring, recoil spring and frankly the striker spring are all usage items and regular maintenance would suggest every 5000 rounds swapping them out.... sure the gun will probably function for 10's of thousands of rounds no problem.... but come on, for $30 worth of springs per every 5k of ammo shot it is cheap insurance.
 
If you have a choice go with the newest models available. If you can afford the newest ones, why would it be an option in the first place.

That said, I prefer gen 3.5. A lot of Armors and personal experience dictate the Gen 4 are great, but can malfunction using reloads. If your using box ammo, they work great. Last time we used a Gen 4 we were using Winchester Ball ammo, 147 grain.

RTF's are awesome, and unique (Hard to do with a Glock), but sand down the grip as its a little to aggressive.

I recommend a Glock 17, Glock 34, Glock 21 SF, or Glock 17 RTF.
 
jamiejaf said:
Gen 4 or RTF models.
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please elaborate, unless you were joking ;)

gen 2's and up I have had no problems there. Gen 1's ? I don't think i've seen even one gen1 glock for sale.

I would probably hold on to it, especially if it was made the first year it came out.
 
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