Is the gen 4 glock 17 good to go?

I had a Gen 4, sold it. I have other pistols I prefer for target shooting at 20m.

I had a couple of mag related failures with one specific factory mag as the mag spring was just too tight. I was getting double feeds fromt he same mag. Easy fix though, just load the mags to compress the spring for a while. Other than that, the pistol was flawless. It would feed and fire anything. You can't beat it for availability of aftermarket upgrade parts or cost of OEM parts. Glocks are uber reliable. Though with the adj. backstraps, it's a good fit for various palm sizes.
 
Mine still throws brass in my face every now and again {no, I'm not "limp wristing"}, I can't hit the broad side with it, it's ugly as sin and it's made of plastic...if the f@$#ing thing wasn't so damn reliable (goes bang every time) I'd melt it down and make an ashtray out of it!

Perhaps with some 3 dot sights and an aftermarket ejector/extractor our love hate relationship will change, but for right now, I would re-write history if I could and not bought the Glock.
 
maybe someone should post the right combo of extractor/ejector with their respectives part # to make it easy.

I know a lot of Glock shooters at my range, none of them have issues with their pistols.
 
I bought an early Gen4, no issues for 1000 rounds. Then I called Glock about the new recoil spring (not that I was having any issues) and the CSR was awesome, in a week I had a new spring and a few Glock goodies in my mail box completely free of charge. Have another 1000 rounds down the pipe with the new spring and still yet to have a malfunction.
 
Clobbersauras said:
Or the OP could just find one of the many pre-2010 Gen 3's around and bask in it's boring reliability.

Hell, I'd buy a Gen 2 before I'd buy a Gen 4. I'm just not interested in sorting out problems that should have been fixed two years ago.

For anyone wondering the date of manufacture of a particular Glock, look here:

ht tp://glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1287557
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Yeah, but then you have to sort out all the problems that should have been fixed three generations ago.

Most of which persist on the gen 4, but still.
 
Like the newer SIGs the internet doom and gloom of the Gen4 is to be taken with a huge gain of salt.
 
It's all in the perspective...is the difference between a cancer incidence of 5 per 100,000 and 15 per 100,000 insignificant to most people because it's ultra-rare, or is it three times worse after exposure to a particular chemical? Yes.


Anyone who really needs to know the details of the Gen 4 issues should read this thread:

http://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?5118-Glock-Gen4-s-Good-to-Go-Yet

Probably covers it in more (and more accurate) detail than any discussion I have seen. Many of these shooters are happy with 10-40,000 rounds down the pipe but some guns (with the same parts) are dogs that won't go a thousand rounds without a stoppage, the occasional 19 barely going a hundred rounds without a stoppage.

OTOH, if I was going to buy a Glock right now I'd probably buy the most recent production Gen 4 I could find. I think it's now easier than finding a Gen 3 old enough that it predates the late Gen 3 issues.
 
Ya know what's so funny about this debate? There are probably 2 gen4 Glocks sold for every one of any other brand of handgun in the world right now, so there are simply more of them out there than anything else. And guess what - all guns, even Glock, can experience a failure. So, yes, you will hear of the occasional Glock failure. Just remember there are probably 100 satisfied gen4 owners for every one who isn't.

And as Dsiwy said, the internet is a strange place where people with no life can preach all kinds of doom and gloom and we don't often get the whole story or know the motives of the writer. Every gun manufacturer has the occasional bad sample leave the factory, but those few bad samples get the most attention. Some people call this the internet snowball effect.

Yes, I'll keep my G17 gen4 forever. Its been great for me.
 
So last week I buy a 40ml bottle of liquid froglube. I subsequently clean and lube my handguns (Glock 17 gen 4 inclusive) and a few rifles without putting much of a dent into the 40ml. Fast forward to this weekend (8 degrees centigrade overcast, wet) and guess what!? F$%king piece of sh1t Glock won't fire. Light primer strikes for all but 1 round!

Not necessarily Glocks fault, I'm blaming myself as when lightly lubricating the points on the pistol I shot the slightest of "squirts" backward into the firing pin hole. FrogLube tightens up quite a bit in the cold unbeknownst to me. It became viscous enough to slow down the striker causing light strikes (bit of "learn from my mistakes" for froglube users).

All that aside, WTF! I thought this thing will fire when it's full of strawberry jam!? When it's not throwing brass in my face, it's not throwing projectiles, which is redundant 'cause I can't hit anything with them anyhow!

Is it possible I'm allergic to plastic!? All my other center fire guns worked that day, and they were lubed as well.
 
plinker 777 said:
So last week I buy a 40ml bottle of liquid froglube. I subsequently clean and lube my handguns (Glock 17 gen 4 inclusive) and a few rifles without putting much of a dent into the 40ml. Fast forward to this weekend (8 degrees centigrade overcast, wet) and guess what!? F$%king piece of sh1t Glock won't fire. Light primer strikes for all but 1 round!

Not necessarily Glocks fault, I'm blaming myself as when lightly lubricating the points on the pistol I shot the slightest of "squirts" backward into the firing pin hole. FrogLube tightens up quite a bit in the cold unbeknownst to me. It became viscous enough to slow down the striker causing light strikes (bit of "learn from my mistakes" for froglube users).

All that aside, WTF! I thought this thing will fire when it's full of strawberry jam!? When it's not throwing brass in my face, it's not throwing projectiles, which is redundant 'cause I can't hit anything with them anyhow!

Is it possible I'm allergic to plastic!? All my other center fire guns worked that day, and they were lubed as well.
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I am done using froglube. Stuff gums up any gun used in cool temps. Try an AR in -10 with FL...... Btw, don't squirt anything down striker channel. Just pop the striker out and wipe the swarf off with a clean rag or toothbrush.

The Gen4's are GTG. Have many, many thousands of rounds thru mine. Nary a problem.
 
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