Ok, I haven't started anything around here in a while so I figure I'm due.
I HATE GLOCK'S! In fact I am a charter member of Glock Haters of America from the mid 1980's
I don't hate them because they do not work, they do. I do not hate the Glock because it tends to brake, it does not.
A friend of mine got one of the first few hundred Glock that came into this country and he sold all of his other guns. He told me it was the ultimate pistol and that he would never need anything else. I tried his and hated it. It didn't point well for me. The grip felt like a poorly rasped 1x2. The magazine didn't drop-free (yeah I know they changed that). The trigger felt like something from one of my old cap-guns. I thought putting the safety on the trigger was one of the most retarded things I had ever heard of. In fact, I found nothing about the gun that I actually liked. Nothing! I even hated the weight because it was too light and the weight shifted when you fired it and the ammo got low.
Years later I tried the new version with the finger grooves and hated it even more because it now felt like a poorly rasped 1x2 with bumps on it that didn't fit my fingers.
Now, in all honesty I have yet to find a polymer pistol that I truly like. I am leaning towards the FNP 45, but I want some real trigger time before I say it is the first. I like a metal pistol, the 1911 and the Sig P220 are two of my all time favorites. I like having some weight in my pistols to help reduce recoil. I don't like any pistol that malfunctions when my grip ain't perfect. I don't like depending on something that will melt at under a thousand degrees. In fact, one of the things I DON'T like about the Sig is the fact that the plastic grip was the only thing covering the back-strap, Heck I tried to get a pair of aluminum grips made for my P220 back in the late '80's.
Yes, you can throw a Glock out of a helicopter a hundred feet up and it will work once you put it back together. Yes some of them have run 10's and 100's of thousands of rounds. Yes police agencies all over the country and the world issue them. Yes the training and manual of arms are so simple a monkey can use it. I still won't drink the cool-aid.
I may find a plastic pistol I like, it won't be a Glock. I may well get a 9mm pistol (I ain't a fan of them either) but it will likely be a CZ-75 or Sig. I might, someday get a striker-fired pistol, but I will have to find one that doesn't feel like I should fit a roll of red paper caps in it.
For my money, the biggest thing Glock has ever had going for it is PR and Hype, neither of which do I worry about, generally speaking.
If you think otherwise, fine. I don't buy your guns and you don't buy mine, so get what you want, but please don't try to tell me it's a Phaser or something. It is a pistol and IMO there are much better to be had. Besides, if God wanted guns made like a Glock he would have had John Moses Browning invent it, not some Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer.
P.S. their knives and shovels suck too.
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