What makes glocks so popular????

it's sick looking like making me puke kinda sick. SIGS are NOT for yuppies, how dare you! i love big meaty things in my hand though
 
You mean it's good for dudes who have big hands? So it's too good for the ones with kiddy hands? :D

I just read a post about the number of internal parts, I'm pretty darn sure the Sig has less internal parts than a Glock. But what does it have to do with reliability and all that... Sigs are simple. That's it.
 
AND SIGS are ###y :) I love guns, and when I buy one I look at the ###iness as well as reliability. Also, I prefer a gun with some weight to it, Sigs feel like a gun, you become a part of it, touching it, feeling that hard steel in your hands, smelling it, that beautiful metal frame.

I just received my Sig p250 a few days ago, and I love it, but the frame is plastic, still a great gun that's super easy to clean and change calibers.

I wish Glock would make a steel framed gun.
 
Glocks are OK, they're popular because they are everywhere, they are everywhere because Police Departments use them, Police Departments like three things in a pistol:

1) reliable pistols, that are
2) idiot proof, and
3) cheap

It's not magic.
 
Low cost, good reliability, used by LE all over both Canada and the US so aftermarket support is excellent. Quite simple in design, anyone that even a fraction of an amount for firearms can strip and maintain a glock to a near armorer's level.
 
Artiz said:
I just read a post about the number of internal parts, I'm pretty darn sure the Sig has less internal parts than a Glock. But what does it have to do with reliability and all that... Sigs are simple. That's it.
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I own both (well a DAC 394, P228 clone) don't think Sigs have fewer parts than a Glock, I've never counted but I'm almost positive the Glock has fewer.

If you think Sigs are simple when compared to Glocks you're :onCrack: Sigs may be simple compared to 1911's (dunno I've never owned a 1911) but nowhere near the simplicity of a Glock.

You've obviously never detailed stripped both guns? or replaced an internal part?

I love both guns but Glock is by far the simplest pistol on the market today.
 
Artiz said:
You mean it's good for dudes who have big hands? So it's too good for the ones with kiddy hands? :D

I just read a post about the number of internal parts, I'm pretty darn sure the Sig has less internal parts than a Glock. But what does it have to do with reliability and all that... Sigs are simple. That's it.
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Part count isn't overly important. However, more parts means more pieces to fail/break. The SIG line averages around 55 parts. The Glock is the undisputed champion at 35 pieces, and that includes the magazine. The parts debate can be answered with this question. If both Glocks and SIG's(or any other pistol) perform the same task, but a Glock does it with nearly half as many parts. What advantage do the additional parts offer and are they necessary?

TDC
 
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Do you count the grips and screws in that?
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Well, even on that grips & scews would account for 6 "parts" [4 scews; 2 grip panels]. So, it would still be 55 - 6 = 49 parts for the Sig vs 35 parts for the Glock.

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NAA.
 
I just counted parts on a P228 and a G31...

P228
14 Upper
32 Lower (Screws=1part Grips=1part)
46 Parts

G31
17 Upper
15 Lower
32 Parts

Magazines are 5 pieces for both pistols

There's the same number of parts in a whole Glock as there is in a Sig lower only.
I might have missed something though.
 
If I recall, yes. The grips and screws were counted as well. The magazine was not counted when referring to the SIG. For reference, a 1911 runs 52 parts, a Beretta 67 and a double action revolver over 50(Colt python 57 pieces, S&W 29 has 73 pieces). So much for revolvers being "simpler" than autos.

TDC
 
^^ Wow, a revolver with THAT many parts? Yeah my Sig is much simpler than that lol.

What drowns the Sig on parts count is the lower which is more complicated. But I could never see any part of my Sig failing, same for Glocks.

Beretta 67? Well that's a lot of parts...
 
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