I’ve never owned a Glock. The ergonomics are iffy, the trigger feels like a twig straining to its breaking point, and then there’s the fanboy factor. “Ermagherd, how can you not like the GLOCK? It’s like the most revolutionary thing ever and I once heard that a guy fed one to a shark that lived in a volcano on the Jovian moon of Io and then it still fired 6.52 million rounds of overpressure ammo because he was like a commando and went on to topple Dr. Robotnik’s Army of Socialist Androids and sweet Ron Paul UFO Jesus how can you not own a gun that’s so dreamy the manufacturer has to write their name in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS?”
Yeesh. I must be missing something, right? Maybe. I needed a smallish pistol to fit in the pocket of my day pack, and the 26 met my requirements better than pretty much anything else. I don’t shoot J-Frame revolvers well, and most of the other small 9mm pistols have one drawback or another for me. So, a model 26 crossed the bow at a good price, and here we are.
This one’s from October of 1999. Back then, the Assault Weapons Ban was still in effect, pagers were the pinnacle of mobile technology, and we still had to rewind our movies when we were done. The less said about that time, the better.
So, yeah. There’s not much to say. It’s a Glock. Now I have an Australian gun without a safety that can get through metal detectors. Yay.
You know, it doesn’t shoot half bad. So there’s that.
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what would you say are the drawbacks to the S&W M&P9C and Shield?
LoL! I have owned two of just about everything and when I was preparing for my first high speed low drag training I was all mall ninja’ed out with my HK .45 and Sig P226 9MM etc. I had owned several Glocks and thought the same thing, wow it points weird and the trigger is weird, but they are great guns and I am supposed to like them. Well I was sure my “Navy Seal Approved” sidearm choices would wow my 20 plus year veteran operator instructors. They were all carrying Glocks? How could this be? Noe HK’s or Kimbers? Not one, so I ask them about it and they snickered at my HK (HK’s, Sigs and pretty much every double action sidearm are jokes in the REAL gun fighting realm) so the first thing my Jedi master ask me to do was draw my sidearm and show me my warrior “Kick Ass” gun-fighting stance Well I went all weaver on them and this led the whole class into the isosceles and modern handgun combat techniques. After a couple hundred busted caps i was not really doing so well, my drills were slow and my shooting less than effective. My genius instructor ask me if i wanted to try his backup Glock? So i said absolutely, well using the isosceles the Glock came alive in my hand, it felt perfect and he had his trigger slightly done so the super short reset and consistent pull were light years from the HK’s tonka toy trigger and even better than the P226’s as well, it was mind blowing. i was shooting so much faster and much more accurate. I was told later the low bore axis was a big factor and when I compared it to my HK and Sig, they were like over/under shotguns.I was ruined, i immediately traded my Mall Ninja sidearms for Glocks of various calibers and sizes. I will never look back and now view my combat handguns as tools vs cool toys. So people can hate on Glocks, people can love Glocks but nobody can deny the impact of this weapon upon the firearms industry. They dominate competition, law enforcement and the Tactical Training realm. They are the hammers that protect, ugly or not.
I wouldn’t say that there are any drawbacks, per se. I do like the feel of the M&P, and the trigger has a predictable break.
So, I dunno. Perhaps someone’s been slipping Kool-Aid into my food when I haven’t been looking.