First Glock in 18 years...

[Idaho45guy]

Had my FFL order me a Gen4 G29 yesterday. He says it should be here next week. I've been using either my S&W M&P40C or Ruger .45 Colt BH Bisley 5.5" for my woods carry gun. Loved the M&P, but felt just a tad undergunned with the .40 S&W in wolf and bear country and the .45 Colt is just a big, heavy hunk of steel best suited for horseback.

The G29 is just the perfect handgun for protection in the woods with 10 rounds of 10mm, or with a G20 magazine, 15 rounds of 10mm. I can shoot .40 S&W in it, I can get a different barrel for .357 Sig, or an extended 6" 10mm barrel for even higher velocity. The gun is eminently modular, reliable, and durable.

I sold my last Glock, a G31 (.357 Sig) that I had customized, in 1999. I then went to Walther, then Springfield Armory, then S&W M&Ps for the past ten years.

The last Glock I owned...

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[Der Gebirgsjager]

Interesting choice....seems well thought out.

[CDRGlock]

Great choice. I'm eyeing a 41 or 40 myself.


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[Mytmousemalibu]

I've had the chance to shoot a G20, I was pleasantly surprised. It manages the hearty 10mm very well.

[John Allen]

I got a G20 myself. I always wanted a 10mm and figured it was a good choice. It is a great gun I am very happy.

[375supermag]

Hi...
I bought my son one of the long slide 10mm Glocks a couple of years ago for Christmas.
He is big into hi-capacity autoloaders and absolutely loves it.
It is a fun gun to shoot and is accurate.
He has shot it enough to know that it is absolutely reliable...so much so that he sometimes uses it as his carry gun.
To me it is just another polymer autoloader with little to recommend it as far as aesthetics are concerned. It is utilitarian but quite efficient at what it does...just has no style like a SA revolver or a quality DA revolver like a S&W or Colt.

No worries...my S&W M&P .40 is exactly the same. Boringly accurate, absolutely reliable...but it pales in comparison to my 1911s.

[W.R.Buchanan]

If you just look at Glocks as "Tools" you will start to understand them.

Gaston Glock was/is a Toolmaker. The Glock 16 is an Entrenching Tool used by the Austrian Military. He also has supplied their Bayonets, and other knives.

They are great tools and perform their jobs well.

Randy

[rundownbear]

First Glock in 18 years...

my sympathies to you falling off the wagon.

[Lefty Red]

First Glock in 18 years...

my sympathies to you falling off the wagon.

Best response ever!!!!!
LOL


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[Lloyd Smale]

wish I would have bought a 29. I have a 20 and its a great gun but its BIG

[dragon813gt]

wish I would have bought a 29. I have a 20 and its a great gun but its BIG

Try the G40 if you want big :laugh:
I will stick w/ the G20 for woods carry. Yes, it's a big gun. But w/ a proper holster I don't notice the weight. And said weight soaks up the recoil well. I have a 357 Sig conversion barrel for it and that's a hoot to shoot. It's a very versatile tool. There are other conversion barrels to be bought in all types of lengths and porting.

[Dan Cash]

In the late 1990s, a friend brought his brand new 10mm Clock out to our farm for a picknic and shoot out. He was very pleased with the way the magazine could be quickly snatched and inserted in the pistol as it self ejected every 3d or 4th shot. He traded for a Delta Elite and is still smiling.

[44MAG#1]

We all know Glocks aren't any good and that they will give nothing but trouble while Springfield, Kimber, Colt, Smith and Wesson and Sig and Dan Wesson are all totally trouble free and will never ever give even the slightest hiccup in use.

[taco650]

If you just look at Glocks as "Tools" you will start to understand them.

Gaston Glock was/is a Toolmaker. The Glock 16 is an Entrenching Tool used by the Austrian Military. He also has supplied their Bayonets, and other knives.

They are great tools and perform their jobs well.

Randy

Good analogy. I disliked Glocks a lot when they first came out but due to a career change where I'm required to wear one everyday, my opinion has changed. They are the best at "always working" regardless of the circumstances IMO. The good news is they can be made fancy and cool, just need some $$$.

Congrats on a good choice for woods carry.

[Rio]

Gotta agree with Taco, they are a tool. Designed to do a job first with comfort and looks an after thought. I was issued my first one 20 years ago. Wasn't thrilled in the beginning, remember wearing patches of skin off my hands during qualifications. But 20 years later when faced with a possible change to XD I was vocal about staying glock. It does what it was designed to do every time, that's all I expect out of it, I concentrate on doing my part.

[FergusonTO35]

Don't worry, someday Gaston & Co. will actually achieve perfection:

[Lloyd Smale]

ill ruffle some feathers and say it this way. Maybe after over a 100 years the 1911 will someday achieve perfection without spending 2k on customization and reliability work. Truth be told a 500 dollar glock runs as good or better then anything that comes out of wilsons or les baers shop. sure aint as pretty though if that matters to you.

[Lefty Red]

ill ruffle some feathers and say it this way. Maybe after over a 100 years the 1911 will someday achieve perfection without spending 2k on customization and reliability work. Truth be told a 500 dollar glock runs as good or better then anything that comes out of wilsons or les baers shop. sure aint as pretty though if that matters to you.

You might ruffle some but, "there's iron in your words!"

Lefty


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[375supermag]

ill ruffle some feathers and say it this way. Maybe after over a 100 years the 1911 will someday achieve perfection without spending 2k on customization and reliability work. Truth be told a 500 dollar glock runs as good or better then anything that comes out of wilsons or les baers shop. sure aint as pretty though if that matters to you.

I will agree that you can spend a lot of money on a 1911 to customize it if you like, but my Springfield only required about $50 worth of polishing of the feed ramp and an 18lb recoil spring to become extremely reliable with 230gr Golden Saber factory loads(my chosen carry load) and my handloads that I shoot by the thousands.
On the other hand, my nickle Colt Combat Commander has been completely reliable out of the box since the day I bought it with the exact same loads. I bought it used but unfired in its factory box.

The Glock in 10mm that I bought my son has been completely reliable from day one. So he got a completely reliable Glock as a gift that he absolutely loves and I got two 1911s that with roughly $50 of upgrades between them have been my chosen carry guns for years(in the case of the Springfield, as many as 30 years). I have had the Colt for probably less than 10 years. The only time either has failed is when I ran a test on the Springfield and shot about 3000 rounds through it without any thing more than spraying it with GunScrubber and putting a bit of oil on the slide once or twice, just to see how long it would run before it hiccupped.

The point is, you can get a perfectly reliable 1911 without spending anywhere near $2000 in upgrades and customization.

[FergusonTO35]

As you have probably read in my thread about it, I bought a Kimber Micro .380 awhile back. Very nice pistol that cost $100.00 more than my Glock 42. The Micro is a great shooter, just as accurate as the Glock. Unfortunately it developed some failure to extract and self-ejecting mag problems and so had to go back to Yonkers for service. Like the Colt Mustang, the Micro is a sweet little pistol but has some nagging problems that were never completely resolved. If the Micro doesn't come back fixed 100% it will be replaced by a Sig P238 or a second Glock 42.