I bought a Glock last Saturday. Seriously. Not only did I buy a Glock but I bought a Glock 17 which is chambered in a ladies round. It's 2025 and I just bought my first 9mm because you know how I like to stay on top of new trends.
I'm not entirely sure why I folded and bought a plastic gun, but I damned sure did. Write it off to peer pressure, senility, wanting to be one of the kool kids, whatever. All or none of the above, take your pick.
All joking aside, as much as I love cappin' on the Glock fanbois, it's really not a bad gun. Sure, the grip angle is different than my beloved 1911s, but so are they on my 357 magnum revolvers. It's really a non-issue.
Balance is much better than I figured it would be. I can draw the damned thing and it's pointing right at whatever the target in the backyard happens to be at the moment. Maybe not exact dead center but close enough.
The trigger leaves a little to be desired. The initial pull is creepy but not as bad as I thought it would be. I've been told the creepiness will smooth out after I put a few hundred rounds through it. We'll see how it rolls. I have no complaints on the trigger reset - it's very noticeable and as consistent as it should be.
I've heard a lot of people bitching about the factory sights, but I don't have a problem with them. They're prominent enough that I can pick them up with no problem, so I'll stick with them until I start having issues.
It holds 17 rounds, twice as many as my Colt, allowing me to magdump and kill everything behind what I'm shooting at because why take chances, right?
The Glock 17 isn't really concealable. but that's cool. It isn't meant to be. The holster I bought keeps it tight against my body but the butt of the gun sticks out just a tad too far even when I'm wearing an oversized button-down. No big deal, we have open carry here so I don't have to worry about printing but if I'm going somewhere and my gun needs to be concealed, I'll carry my Colt Defender. Granted, it only holds 8 rounds but that's 7 more than I'd need because, well, it's a 45 ACP.
The Glock is light and comfortable to wear. I have a gun on my belt from the moment I crawl out of bed until I retire for the evening, and I'm not having one bit of discomfort with the Wunderwaffe. That's huge.
So, a couple of thoughts: It's the only new gun I've ever bought that I had to talk myself into buying. Why did I buy it then? I don't know, man. I got it into my head a couple months ago that I oughta buy one and it just kept gnawing at me. You know how that shit goes.
It's also the only new gun I've ever owned that I wasn't completely fascinated with. I mean, usually as soon as I get one home I'm tearing it apart and checking it out, shooting the hell out of it, handling and admiring it. When I got my first 1911, I ran 500 rounds through before it even left that gun shop. This one though? I put a couple magazines through it out back blowing up jugs of water to check reliability, then I put it away. I'm treating it like a new teen-aged stepson. We may get along, we may not.
Am I willing to give the gun an honest chance? Absolutely. It's not the world's most popular gun for nothing.
Do I have enough confidence in it to trust my life to it? Uh-huh, you bet. Along with beaucoup other people. I'm carrying it right now even though all I've put though it at the time of this writing is about a hundred rounds. That's how much confidence I have in it.
Okay, the big question: How does it print on paper?
I'm glad you asked. I had some business in Gallatin on Thursday so I stopped by the range on my way home and put a box of 50 rounds through it to check the point of aim and see how it grouped. Ammo was 124 gr Aquila FMJ. Target was a silhouette, distance was 10 yards. Stance was my usual sloppy-ass modified Weaver. Shooting speed was about a round every 3 seconds - not fast but not real slow. You can see in the photo that it shoots just a tad left. There's 5 flyers in the 9 ring that I can't blame on the gun because I called most of them as soon as I sent them to the target. So yeah, it shoots pretty good and I know that with a little more familiarization I'll shoot it better.
And now the moment you've all been waiting for! *Drum roll please*
I may have been wrong about Glocks. I can see where some folks would develop a man-crush on them.
There, I said it.
The best part of buying the damned thing though, is the reactions from the few people I've told up until now.
When I walked in the door after buying it, I showed Lisa who immediately got a concerned look on her face and felt my forehead to see if I was running a fever, then she started to pick up the phone to call LadyDoc until she remembered her office is closed on Saturdays.
Woody's reaction was to send me a link to a video post HERE from my own blog where I was fucking with the fanbois. Fuck you back, Woody.
Alemaster began gleefully laughing and started sending me links to Glock dealers, custom shops and parts sharks. Did you know there's such a thing as Glock wrist watches?
WiscoDave replied to my email with something like, "That's okay, I know a few people that own Glocks and I still respect them."
JD's reaction was to demand, and I quote, "What is this, some kind of a fucking joke?"
Okay, now if you'll excuse me, I must make my transformation to Glock Fanboi complete. I need to buy a Glock hat, seven Glock t-shirts, a large Glock back window sticker, a French Bulldog and a fucking Subaru SUV.
