glock failure
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When did Joe Internet's posts become "documented facts"? Glocks have had 100s of issues with all models. Glock 21s frames cracking, the whole gen 4 failure, the Glock hand grenades...AKA the Glock 22.
I am not a Glock fan boy...I like HK and find them better TO ME in EVERYWHERE other then they are more $$$ which upsets people used to paying Chinese prices for everything...BUT I still admit that they are not perfect and issues and lemons to come up.
At a failure rate of 80% I REALLY doubt its a limp writing issue, probably something much more.
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On the topic of limp wristing...if the Glock is so great, shouldn't they NOT be so sensitive to user error...the grip size/angle/feel all ready sucks for most people and to aid on top of that if you hold it incorrectly its not gonna chug along like it should?!
Fan boys like the Glock so much cause "it never stops" and they make up 1000s of Rambo like situations where only the Glock would be up for the job...well how about a wet and/or bloody hand that makes it so you cannot grip it properly? That is not that far fetched, will it still work? Or your hand is badly damaged and you do not have as much grip strength, same deal if your weak from blood lose or using your not dominate shooting hand for the task? What then?!
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LOL x2...
Everything and everyone makes a lemon once in a while...expect Glocks
This isn't a lemon...it's either a non-functioning gun or a non-functioning user. A lemon is a gun that has 3 or 5 failures in a thousand rounds, say. A Taurus, for example. 800 failures in 1000 rounds isn't a problem gun, it's a gun that will not work, period.
The thing that the people who want to make this in to a "look at the glock fanboys" thread are missing is that this is not the failure rate you could expect with a totally screwed-up glock. It's a hundred times worse than that.
Glock has built some guns with issues, but an 80% failure rate is beyond just "a ####ty gun". There is something unusual here and all the "anti-glock-fanboy" posts are distracting from the actual issue.
So Glock makes (they are the only ones who makes Glocks as far as I know!) a ####ty one...but its SO ####ty its not a lemon? I agree, this is worse then your "average" lemon. But what is it then?
They made it, they approved it and sent it out for sale so....?
They made it, they approved it and sent it out for sale so....?
My first post was a joke, I'm far from "fan boy" status and actually I had a very similar issue with my G17 Gen 4 when i bought it new. Luckily for me there is a gun shop at my range and I had purchased the gun from them. My first 2 boxes of factory 9mm was very disappointing. Stove piping like crazy, in fact I was getting kind of pissed off and no I wasn't limp wristing the pistol. So I took it back to the shop and the owner field stripped the slide off and sprayed (quite liberally) a silicone spray lubricant. He re-assembled it, handed it back to me and said "there you go, fixed !"
I kind of know the guy and he's never steered me wrong before, but I thought BS all he did was spray lube it (it was factory lubed already!?). Anyhow back to the range and not a hiccup then or since!!
I have no rhyme or reason why this made the difference, but it did. Give your Glock a chance OP, spray it down with some WD40 or the like, wipe it down and run it. I bet you won't experience anymore stove piping. Nothing wrong with the gun or you.
I kind of know the guy and he's never steered me wrong before, but I thought BS all he did was spray lube it (it was factory lubed already!?). Anyhow back to the range and not a hiccup then or since!!
I have no rhyme or reason why this made the difference, but it did. Give your Glock a chance OP, spray it down with some WD40 or the like, wipe it down and run it. I bet you won't experience anymore stove piping. Nothing wrong with the gun or you.
We don't know what is wrong. For all we know this is the equivalent of a person starting a thread on a car forum saying "my Civic won't go more than 25 km/h or it stalls", then finding out they bought a standard transmission car and are shifting it into reverse instead of second.
Or that the car has been disassembled and reassembled without all 4 pistons.
In either scenario, saying "OMG I can't believe Honda let that car go out" is ridiculous.
We have no idea what's happening here. The only thing we know is that a guy had a failure rate indicative of a major problem that might be with the gun, or might not.
Or that the car has been disassembled and reassembled without all 4 pistons.
In either scenario, saying "OMG I can't believe Honda let that car go out" is ridiculous.
We have no idea what's happening here. The only thing we know is that a guy had a failure rate indicative of a major problem that might be with the gun, or might not.
When did Joe Internet's posts become "documented facts"? Glocks have had 100s of issues with all models. Glock 21s frames cracking, the whole gen 4 failure, the Glock hand grenades...AKA the Glock 22.
I am not a Glock fan boy...I like HK and find them better TO ME in EVERYWHERE other then they are more $$$ which upsets people used to paying Chinese prices for everything...BUT I still admit that they are not perfect and issues and lemons to come up.
At a failure rate of 80% I REALLY doubt its a limp writing issue, probably something much more.
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On the topic of limp wristing...if the Glock is so great, shouldn't they NOT be so sensitive to user error...the grip size/angle/feel all ready sucks for most people and to aid on top of that if you hold it incorrectly its not gonna chug along like it should?!
Fan boys like the Glock so much cause "it never stops" and they make up 1000s of Rambo like situations where only the Glock would be up for the job...well how about a wet and/or bloody hand that makes it so you cannot grip it properly? That is not that far fetched, will it still work? Or your hand is badly damaged and you do not have as much grip strength, same deal if your weak from blood lose or using your not dominate shooting hand for the task? What then?!
Come to fort mcmurray, bring whatever gun you shoot, ill use my gen 3 glock 22. We will go tell one fails. I know who will win.
I have owned 4 Glock 17s, two glock 22s, two glock 21s. Gen 3 and 4. I have never had a failure. Why would i lie? Im not getting any money from glock, if it was junk i would say so. I even sold most of my glocks to try others, to see what the hype was about. I had 4 beretta 92fs, 2 xdms, 2 1911s, 2 sigs, and a USP. plus a few revolvers.
To be honest the only guns i have ever had any malfunction with were 1911s. My berettas, sigs and xdms all functioned flawlessly. The 1911s, at around the 400 round mark, would get dirty i guess and start to jam. While the 1911 has a great trigger, id buy a Glock, XDM, usp, anyday.
To be honest the only guns i have ever had any malfunction with were 1911s. My berettas, sigs and xdms all functioned flawlessly. The 1911s, at around the 400 round mark, would get dirty i guess and start to jam. While the 1911 has a great trigger, id buy a Glock, XDM, usp, anyday.
A little story.
I was at the range recently with a friend. He had a ruger P345 and a tangfolio in .40cal. When he shot the guns, he kept getting jams, but when i tried his guns, they worked fine in my hands. What does that mean?
I was at the range recently with a friend. He had a ruger P345 and a tangfolio in .40cal. When he shot the guns, he kept getting jams, but when i tried his guns, they worked fine in my hands. What does that mean?
LOL...love internet tough guys who shoot better then people they have never met nor see shoot. And no sorry...I will not come to Fort McMurray to shoot against a stranger.
Please point out where I even said I was a good shot (even though I am) let alone a better shot then you and that my gun of choice, provided you were talking about handguns...which is a Smith and Wesson model 52(which WILL out shoot a Glock any day, if we put them to a ransom rest test to avoid any user error) is better then a Glock???
...That is what I thought.
Stop reading when I got to the "with a friend" part...knew anything after that was not gonna be fabricated.
guess you missed the point. I wasnt comparing our skillz. I was comparing our gunz. I dont care if we both hit sand, just keep shooting and see if my Glock out shoots your whatever!
ezglider is his name. he is on gunnutz, pm him.
and jeff, if you think the above is bull####, then then so is CGN, as i sold all my guns to members here.
The one guy I shoot is an HK45...it passed a 50,000 round torture test, I think I am okay!!! Most people will not shoot 50,000 rounds out of one gun in a life time let alone in less then a year nor can afford that and can someone cannot carry that much ammo with them in any type of "end of the world, only one gun event" that people like to talk about.
If you can afford and do shoot that much ammo, that quickly it will wear out anything but you'd also have the money apparently to be wise and have a second or even third "back up gun" and spare parts to go along with it. Anything mechanical breaks...some just sooner then others.
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