Posted: 4/9/2012 9:25:51 AM EDT
| I think a picture thread for nothing but real world Glock work pistols are called for. So if you're a LEO,military or security and use a Glock at work post them up. |
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I just posted this gun up in the thread asking about 2nd Gen G21s, but here goes.
This is my 2nd Gen G21, serial number AEV***US, an early example of the G21. According to the serial number project over at Glock Talk, it was manufactured in late 1993. I bought it at the Canton Gun Show winter of 1993/1994. I qualified with it for my PD job in the spring of 1994 and have been carrying it ever since. Pics were taken with my CrackBerry, so they're not the best, but you get the point. 
I'm constantly amazed by just how much holster wear it DOESN'T show for having been carried for that long. Probably helps that my duty holsters have always been SafariLand, which has a soft suede lining and that, per the holster instructions, I periodically spray the suede with silicone spray to make drawing and reholstering easier. This gun is up to almost 45,000 rds now. NO malfs except for some of my reloads that I didn't size properly when I first started reloading. The next gun is my Gen 2.5 G26, also early production for that model. Serial number is BUZ***US. Again, per Glock Talk's serial number project, made in early 1996. I got it right after when some of the Officers at a local PD bought a bunch of them directly from Glock and sold off the ones that Officers said they wanted but didn't actually buy. I qualified with it that summer and carried it for a while as backup and for off duty. When I married my wife, she loved the G26, so I bought and carried a couple of snubbie revolvers and let her have the G26. A few years ago, we had budget cuts and only have 1 guy working per shift. We are subject to 24/7 call out if the on-duty Officer needs help, so I dug out the G26 (not without much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the wife!) and started carrying it as backup and off duty again. It's easier to shoot than the snubbies and can accept a G17 magazine if I get into something and need the larger capacity. Gun is up to about 8,000 rds. LOTS of malfs early on, till I got about 200 rds through it. Then, like flipping a switch, it just started running right and has run like a dream ever since. I thought I had more pics of it, this is the only one in my Photobucket account, so one it is. 
One more. Although this one isn't mine, it belongs to the PD I work for. It's an EARLY 1st Gen G17, serial number CC***US, manufactured April 1987, again per Glock Talk's serial number project. When Glocks first came out, my PD bought them and issued them, if you wanted an issued gun. Over the years, the issued Glocks were traded in for Beretta 92FS pistols, since a former Chief had a hard on for Berettas. This is the last one left and it only got saved because the Officer carrying it at the time refused to give it up. Normally, when an Officer retires from my PD, they are presented with their duty gun. This particular Officer, however, didn't want it and turned it in with the rest of his issued property. He retired in about 2000 or 2001, so he carried it for about 15 years. It has been used, abused and beaten on something fierce. It is FTExtract quite often now. I think all that's wrong with it is the extractor depressor plunger spring is worn, the extractor, extractor depressor plunger and spring loaded bearing are in good shape. The PD won't buy any parts, though, so it sits as is until they will. I shoot it occasionally, just to keep it from feeling abandoned. I wish to hell they'd agree to sell it to me, but they won't. The Officer that carried it didn't shoot it much (he was one of those that saw it as just another piece of issued gear necessary to do the job, so he never really practiced with it), I'm betting it has about 10,000 through it, with what he shot and what I have shot through it. 
CONSIDERABLE holster wear! 
You can see exactly where the thumb break snap for the holster hit the slide serrations. 
LOTS of scrapes, dings and "character marks". The stipping is worn practically smooth. It's still there, but the high points are worn to the point that it slips around in the hand when fired, especially when your hand is sweaty. 
Other side of the butt. Gee, can you tell he was right handed? Right side of the butt looks LOTS worse than the left side! Again, stippling is worn smooth. 
HOLY CRAP, look at the sight! Original factory polymer fixed sights with however many years of wearing on coats, seat belts, banging on things and general wear. They still work, just REALLY worn! 
Back side of the rear sight, more wear. 
Front sight showing wear. Again, still perfectly usable but worn. Hope you like there 3 guns that are (or were, anyway) carried every day. Bub75 |
