GLOCKMEISTER
EVALUATION OF TRIGGER PULLS
There has been a lot of discussion brought on by a fellow named Duane Thomas concerning his article in Handguns magazine February 1997 issue entitled Living with the Glock 19: How To Get the Best From This Popular Pistol. It is, as far as I can tell, an average article dealing with the trials and tribulations of a gun writer and his Glock Model 19. Additionally, he puts his slant on the history of the Glock (that's the first page or page and a half). Beyond the first portion of his article, it loses something in the translation. The article begins to sound like paragraphs from an aftermarket parts catalog. It touts the advantages of this gadget and that trigger configuration (primarily a New York Trigger Spring and a 3.5 pound connector), but he fails to analyze his decisions and gives the reader some anecdotal fodder that does not seem reasonable to, nor very filling to me (maybe I'm jaded). He claims that he experienced a broken trigger spring, so he changed to an unbreakable and more reliable New York Trigger Spring (plastic and metal - must be more reliable). Well, I wonder if he really experienced the broken spring or did he read about them in Peter Alan Kasler’s book Glock: The New Wave in Combat Handguns. He may have experienced a broken trigger spring, but does that warrant two pages of discussion about his sick Glock 19 trigger?
After reading the article, I had the feeling he was a paid spokes person for a few products he seemed to be hocking (I’m not going to mention them - I won’t give away free advertising).
We have handled thousands of Glocks (every one) and we have only come across a very few broken trigger springs (most of them in very old guns). We have seen broken magazine springs, broken slide lock springs, broken slide stop lever springs, a bent firing pin spring or two and a worn out depressor plunger springs. Does this mean that the springs are no good? I think not. Springs are made of metal - metal is not always perfect. Springs are made by people and we know people are not perfect. I hear stories about someone who knew someone that had a broken trigger spring, but the numbers are not supported by direct experience. My question to Mr. Thomas is how can he prove that New York Trigger Springs are more reliable? And how much experience has he had with the products he is endorsing? I may seem to be nit picking, but far too many of this type of article fall into major gun magazines - they lack real substance. With all of that said - let's get on with our trigger pull tests.