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Send Good Thoughts Please
Ricci Wright
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Please, please send good thoughts my way as it has been a trying day. Oh it started out well enough, a beautiful Sunday morning setting in my big king of the world chair looking out over the showroom as my guys got set up for business, stocking the ammo shelves, lighting up the display cases, and tidying up. A sane orderly world; until the wheels fell off.
One of my instructors came through the range door and I could see right away something was wrong. He was pale, breathing rapidly as he approached my desk a Glock 23 with a Streamlight TLR II in his right hand. ?Boss help me something is wrong!! Easy Brother slow down and tell me. My gun!! My gun!! It WON?T SHOOT!!!!
I of course assumed he was talking about some gun I wasn?t seeing cause the only gun visible was his G23 and we all know that unless you forget to insert some bullets a GLOCK is gonna shoot. Even under water!! I went over all the possibilities I could think of and came up with nothing. He is a very experienced shooter so I excluded human error for the time being. But it had to be something because well damn, it?s a Glock. It had not been cleaned for almost 5000 rounds but so what?
Ok look here?s the really bad part. I disassembled the gun and found a broken stricker/firing pin. Seriously the tip broke off and rendered the gun inoperable. So I am shaken, shaken I say!! How do you watch something you believe in so strongly go so wrong and not be forever changed? I don?t know if I will ever be able to trust anything again. I need to stop now.
One of my instructors came through the range door and I could see right away something was wrong. He was pale, breathing rapidly as he approached my desk a Glock 23 with a Streamlight TLR II in his right hand. ?Boss help me something is wrong!! Easy Brother slow down and tell me. My gun!! My gun!! It WON?T SHOOT!!!!
I of course assumed he was talking about some gun I wasn?t seeing cause the only gun visible was his G23 and we all know that unless you forget to insert some bullets a GLOCK is gonna shoot. Even under water!! I went over all the possibilities I could think of and came up with nothing. He is a very experienced shooter so I excluded human error for the time being. But it had to be something because well damn, it?s a Glock. It had not been cleaned for almost 5000 rounds but so what?
Ok look here?s the really bad part. I disassembled the gun and found a broken stricker/firing pin. Seriously the tip broke off and rendered the gun inoperable. So I am shaken, shaken I say!! How do you watch something you believe in so strongly go so wrong and not be forever changed? I don?t know if I will ever be able to trust anything again. I need to stop now.
Comments
Neal
Why not?
When you clean a gun that is the time to check for function and damage to parts.
Anything made by the hand of man can break. I never had a Glock break on me but I have broken a 870 firing pin.
Meh,,,,,,during the original 1911 endurance test ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
In the 1st thousand rounds, both pistols worked perfectly, without malfunctions. In the 2nd thousand rounds, the Colt functioned perfectly. The Glock had 4 malfunctions. In the 3rd thousand rounds, the Colt functioned perfectly. The Glock suffered a broken bolt stop which was replaced. In the 4th thousand rounds the Colt functioned perfectly. The Glock had 4 malfunctions; the bolt stop and sear were found to be upset from constant pounding, the firing pin spring was found to be shortened. In the 5th thousand rounds the Colt functioned perfectly. The Glock developed a magazine release defect, and dropped its magazine five times; there was further upsetting in the bolt stop and the bolt was found to contain cracks. In the 6th thousand rounds, the Colt functioned perfectly. The Glock had 31 malfunctions; a new extractor was required, the breech plug had cracked, and the firing pin had acquired a permanent set., the safety slide broke and the retractor spring had acquired a permament set. At the end of the firing, a careful examination of the Colt failed to reveal any defective parts.
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glock was not around for the original test
i have 50k through a g34 with absolutely zero malfunctions, zero broken parts, and completely tortured doing it
Oh I forgot I got another Colt Gov Model that I bought in Reno in 1981. That gun was new and wouldn't feed factory ball ammo till it was massaged a bit which I seem to recall was the norm for most Colts back then.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Not been cleaned in almost 5000 rounds????
Why not?
It's a Glock. Everybody knows you don't need to clean a Glock.
You don't even need a safe to store them in either. You just dig a hole in the dirt or gravel and pitch them in it and cover them up or you can just store them in a bucket of mud and salty water.