Posted: 5/6/2014 7:58:31 AM EDT
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Hey guys,
So I was putting my gun in the safe & for some stupid, careless reason, I dropped it on the tile floor. Gun was fine when I picked it up, no marks or scratches. I did notice that the slide felt a little loose. I could move it from side to side & I don't remember this happening before. I took it apart, made sure everything was were it was supposed to be & it was still loose when I put it back together (with mag inserted & without.) I have not shot it yet, hopefully I can go to the range tonight & try it out. Anyone have "experience" with something like this? Is this normal? I keep thinking to myself, that it might have always been like this, I just never noticed it before the drop. Thanks! ETA: It is a Gen4 G19 |
| I've dropped my 10 year old G19 twice. Once getting out of the truck onto concrete, another time I was at a cabin with a very steep driveway. It was in a holster but it tumbled 30 feet down the half concrete / half gravel driveway. Put a few 'character-building' scratches on it but everything else was fine. Scratched the rear sight but it didn't knock it out of alignment one bit. I would say you are fine with tile floor. Anything different is probably just your over-protective Glock owner instinct. |
| i dropped mine from a few feet up onto my beadroom floor which scared the shit out of me because there was one in the pipe. it didnt go bang but it did eject the round when it hit and jammed on the next round. gun is fine and marks dont matter to me. it has holster wear anyway |
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i dropped mine from a few feet up onto my beadroom floor which scared the shit out of me because there was one in the pipe. it didnt go bang but it did eject the round when it hit and jammed on the next round. gun is fine and marks dont matter to me. it has holster wear anyway Dropping it from a "few feet up" was enough to pull the slide all the way back? 
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I'm guessing you've never seen the torture test where a guy dropped his Glock 21 out of an airplane 500' up doing 100 mph. I thought the same 
OP, take your slide off and make sure none of the rails are loose (I'm confident they are not). You can drop it over and over again and the only thing you are going to hurt is probably your sight alignment. Obviously you shouldn't do this but there isn't really anything to damage so long as the gun is assembled. |
| I had a G19 in my inventory in Iraq that had IED damage. A piece of shrapnel went through the trigger guard; through the frame; broke the barrel block and top pin and actually blew the slide partially off the rails. One of our guys put it back together with a new barrel block and we used it as a range beater for the remaining 2 years that I was there. That gun probably got more rounds after it was blown up than before. Long story short... So long as it didn't knock your sights out of alignment I think you'll be ok dropping it 2' onto tile. |