[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Glock reliability (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 8/9/2009 3:57:54 PM EDT
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Looking for first hand knowledge here. I see threads all day where kool-aid drinkers of one model or the other spew nonsense all day. Lets try to keep this civil.
This is about your personal experiences. Not something you heard from the genius behind a gun counter, or the Army/SEAL/chairborne Ranger. I did add some attempted humor so do not get your panties in a bunch. Working on the poll now, cut me some slack. This is mostly to satisfy my curiosity. I know this gets hashed and rehashed everyday. How has your Glock that you own performed? Edit: Owned 5 Glocks at one time or another. Not sure of an exact count, but well over 20k. So we will say 20k. Most of it Wolf FMJ. Not one stoppage ever. |
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Have a gun range that rents firearms nearby? Prove it to yourself, go rent one. I own a few more then I probably should. I am curious as to others experiences. They have perfomed perfectly for me. But from what others say, they blow up and kill babies all day. Just looking to see what other actual Glock owners experience. Not just the 1911 guys who have never owned one think. |
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I can only speak for myself.
I bought a brand new Glock 23 a few months back. I have fired 1000 rounds since then, consisting of HST, Golden Sabre, Gold Dots, WWB, and a few hundred rounds of Blazer Brass. I have mixed up and staggered mags with hollowpoints and FMJ's quite a bit. Absolutely no stoppages at all either one handed, two handed. Four different people have used the gun and it ran 100%. ETA: I really hope this thread doesn't turn into a million KaBoom jokes. Gets pretty old and isn't really funny anymore. 
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I've had no issues with my G22 that would cause me to doubt it's reliability. I've only had one thing go wrong with the pistol, but it kept working anyway. I had recently finished a class when I decided it when I decided I might as well clean the pistol. I only clean it when I feel like it, not when I'm done shooting it. The pistol had probably been through 7-800 rounds during the class, and it worked fine. The pistol was well past the 10k round mark at this point. While cleaning it, I noticed something just didn't look right. After careful scrutiny, I noticed that half of the trigger pin (the one that holds the trigger in) was gone. I'm guessing that it broke at some point during the class, but it could of been before at some point too. Even without the complete pin, the thing ran just fine. I called Glock, and they said send it back in. I had it back in just over a week with a new pin. They also cleaned it up, and changed out the slide stop, recoil spring, etc... I've lost count how many more rounds I've put through it, but it is still going strong. |
I own a "few"  Glocks, and I have never had a stoppage that I could attribute to the gun alone with certainty.I have owned hundreds (no exaggeration) of handguns over the years and Glock is the only make I can say that about. YMMV, as always. ETA: I always put it this way when discussing my faith in Glocks with someone –– if I had to choose a semi-auto handgun, NIB and never handled by me before at all, to defend my life with with no chance to test/practice at all (just pull it out of the box, load it, and fight) for me that pistol would be a Glock, hands-down. Again, YMMV. 
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| I think I've owned about 5 glocks now. I hit "a few stoppages", then I remembered that I'm not using the factory barrel in my 27 (.40 cal), I have Lone Wolf 9mm barrel conversion with the .40 extractor and ejector, which could cause it to have stoppages. My other Glocks all ran flawless. |
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Aside from stoppages I caused (loading fired brass to check for flinches/practice stoppage drills) I have had 2 stoppages out of my Glock.
1. Bad round. Fired second time through, but I never used that brand for carry again. 2. No idea what happened. It just never picked the next round up out of the mag. Racked the slide, has gone bang every time since. I have had it since June 1994. Not a bad track record in my book. 
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| Only had one glock break on me... and I still can't figure out what exactly happened.... It was a G19 with a really light pull, went through about 4-5 hi-cap mags and then something just broke off inside of it and went flying out of the ejection port... Never found the bit that came off... just chalked it up to Murphy's law as that's the only incident i've ever had where a Glock broke on me. |
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Here is my first (and last) Glock I owned. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/paraframe/busted_glock7.jpg I have never had a FTF or FTE with factory ammo in my 1911's or my Glock (before it KaBoomed).  Wow. What model and caliber is that? |
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I know for a fact that I put 10k rounds through the pipe on my G19 without a single failure before I cleaned it.
I cleaned it because I was positively bored out of my mind one day and desperately looking for something to do. I carry a Springfield 1911, but before you say this means I think a 1911 is better, consider that I leave the Glock readily accessible at home for the wife to protect herself and our child. I leave her the Glock because there's much more involved on a 1911 - the simpler for her, the faster and the better. Both are great guns that I would and do trust to defend my life, and my families'. _MaH Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Here is my first (and last) Glock I owned. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/paraframe/busted_glock7.jpg I have never had a FTF or FTE with factory ammo in my 1911's or my Glock (before it KaBoomed). Wow. What model and caliber is that? Glock model 27 in the cursed .40 S&W. I never fired lead reloads through it but the person I bought it from did, a lot. 
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I bought my 3rd G17 back in Oct. I have about 2k down the pipe and the only failure I had was a bad primer with some Brown Bear. My G19 I bought during the bans years had some problems feeding the last round with the 10 round mags but since I bought some normal capacity mags I have not had any problems. I have close to 10k through that one.
I am lucky if my STI 2011 goes 250 rounds with out a FTE or FTF. |
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had a 17 years ago. never shot it well and traded it off. stoppages on par with any other gun i have owned.
g30 a few yeras later that i loved. shot well and never had an issue until it exploded. after a good bit of personal research on the kb issues i won't own another. |
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had a 17 years ago. never shot it well and traded it off. stoppages on par with any other gun i have owned. g30 a few yeras later that i loved. shot well and never had an issue until it exploded. after a good bit of personal research on the kb issues i won't own another. Point me in the direction of any good material on KB's? |
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Quoted: ... g30 a few yeras later that i loved. shot well and never had an issue until it exploded... I remember that incident well. That wasn't the reason (more a case of not fitting my hand/shooting well for me, personally), but a G30 is one of only two Glocks I have owned that I got rid of...  (The other was a G38, FTR, and it had everything to do with the caliber, not the gun itself.) |
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Glocks are no more reliable than many other pistols on the market. So, start one thread about 1911s and another about Glocks. How ingenious.  Should I not speak my mind, or ask questions I am curious to know the answer to? Next time I will ask your permission before posting a topic. Maybe you should Narc me out to the whitehouse. I should probably be put on a list to keep everyone safe.
Thanks for contributing to the thread. |
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Glocks are no more reliable than many other pistols on the market. So, start one thread about 1911s and another about Glocks. How ingenious. Should I not speak my mind, or ask questions I am curious to know the answer to? Next time I will ask your permission before posting a topic. Maybe you should Narc me out to the whitehouse. I should probably be put on a list to keep everyone safe.
Thanks for contributing to the thread. Look, we have had so many 1911 vs Glock threads, it's ridiculous. I guess you thought you were being cute by doing it this way. If I wanted to "narc" you out, I would have hit the "report" button, but I didn't. Thanks for contributing a bunch of nonsense with all the "narc", "list", bullshit to the thread. |
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Glocks are no more reliable than many other pistols on the market. So, start one thread about 1911s and another about Glocks. How ingenious. Should I not speak my mind, or ask questions I am curious to know the answer to? Next time I will ask your permission before posting a topic. Maybe you should Narc me out to the whitehouse. I should probably be put on a list to keep everyone safe.
Thanks for contributing to the thread. Look, we have had so many 1911 vs Glock threads, it's ridiculous. I guess you thought you were being cute by doing it this way. If I wanted to "narc" you out, I would have hit the "report" button, but I didn't. Thanks for contributing a bunch of nonsense with all the "narc", "list", bullshit to the thread. The threads have gone a lot better then I thought they would which is nice. I was just curious what people would say. I have been here a long time, and I can not remember the last time a poll was done on Glock or 1911 reliability. Who cares how many threads there are, if the site does not want my post on here, I am sure they can remove it. I was not reffering to you narc'ing me out to the site, it was a play on words to something the Obama whitehouse is up to right now. I can contribute anything I like to my thread. I really would have thought with how long you have been here you would realize this by now. This is GD after all, and a website about firearms. I think you see where I am going with this. I am done on this subject. |
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Dang. Model? Caliber? Info? Edit: LOL. Fitting line under your screen name. |
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I have carried a Glock 22 on duty since 2001. In all the range time, including training, quals, and my own shooting time, NOT ONE MALFUNCTION between the two that have been issued to me. This incudes shooting a vide variety of ammo including my own reloads. I have a personally owned Glock 35 and a Glock 31, although not as many rounds on those, still ZERO ISSUES, not one single FTF or FTE.
Same can be said for my Beretta 96 INOX too... |
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I'd say that all things considered, a 9mm Glock is possibly the finest personal defense weapon ever made. If you look at cost, reliability, the fact that most people can operate it well (often without ever cleaning it). I would say that its history speaks for itself. How many 9mm KBs are reported? How many KBs are the fault of the user or ammo? How many people have died by KBs?
By the way, I prefer my HK usp-c, but its cost is quite a bit more than a G17 or 19. |