The GLOCK 26 9mm Safe-Action Pistol features a compact design and front and rear night sights.

Glock Pistols- What Breaks and How to Fix It. Running my Glock 2. Henk Iverson’s classes. A rear frame rail broke off soon after the class. The whole gun was replaced by Glock. It only had 3. 2,0.

OK. The coil ones on top break fairly regularly. If you look at the picture, you’ll see the coil springs on the top row. The newer one is thicker and less likely to break. The spring costs about $2 and can be replaced in less than 5 minutes.

Below you will find a collection of rifle, pistol, shotgun, and machinegun manuals from firearm manufacturers, the military, and a few aftermarket sources. It is easy to see why so many people rely on the Austrian wonder 9 for. Ensure the right choice! Each GLOCK pistol is designed and engineered to respond directly to the customer's needs. Some models have a specific purpose, while others. I cut my teeth on a Gen 2 G19 many years ago. Still have it. Thousands of rounds through it. Still love it. I bought two more Gen 3 Glocks (a 23 and a 27).

No matter which Glock you carry, you can cause wear to the slide lock spring by improperly installing your recoil spring assembly. I had to use it to demo a building search technique when its big brother (holstered) stopped working.

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Gun Review: Glock 1. Gen. 4 9. X1. 9mm. When Gaston Glock introduced his Austrian duty pistol into the U.

S. Despite (or because of) the furore surrounding Glock’s “plastic” pistol—supposedly invisible to airport metal detectors—consumers and police departments were fascinated by the “wonder nine.” When they shot a Glock the resulting revelation spurred sales to unimaginable heights. The original G1. 7 was lighter than all- metal pistols of comparable size, held more ammo and proved to be as trusty as a canine companion. As Gen. 4 enters circulation, the question looms: has time been kind to the Black Labrador of pistols?

Glock introduced the Gen. Glock 1. 9 in the middle of 2. As befits the gunmaker’s evolutionary approach, the move from G1. John Birch Society. I received my Gen. G1. 9 in the usual black lunch box emblazoned with an XXL Glock logo.

As someone who believes discretion is the better part of avoiding a Terry Stop, I would have preferred something more subtle. That locks. Kudos to Glock for packaging the G1. Gen. 3). In states that have enacted profoundly ignorant “anti- spree killer” high- capacity magazine laws, a buyer receives two emasculated ten- rounders. In Massachusetts, where new Glocks can’t lawfully be sold by any MA dealers to any MA consumers, buyers will receive nothing but the box, empty. The kit includes the minimalist Glock speedloader, cleaning tools and a manual in 4. Sanskrit). There’s also a gun safety booklet tucked into the box, in case a buyer thinks The Four Rules of Gun Safety are a Tolkein thing. Build Your Own Transistor Radios Download Youtube.

I always found Glock pistols to be unnecessarily ugly, and as ungainly looking as broom- handled Mausers. Certainly, I’m aware that they’re fighting guns and not objets d’art, but still, there’s no reason for Glocks to look like they were designed by the local plumbing contractor. The G1. 9 Gen. 4 is not a bad- looking gun. Those who like the “all handle, no slide” look of the G1.

With no palm- swell installed, the G1. The sandpaper finish adds a touch of je ne sais quoi (that’s French for WTF), and the gun looks put- together, not thrown together. I’d still be embarrassed to display this pistol next to a Kimber Solo Carry STS, but the G1. The Gen. 4 design sports the same the finger- grooved handle of the Gen. Owners who thought that the grooves were groovy on the Gen. Gen. 4, since they’re the same groovy grooves. Those, like me, who hated the grooves will continue to hate them with great passion and conviction.

To improve the G1. Since all things Glockian must have a snappy name or a number, Glock’s hard- charging marketing mavens call it their “Rough Texture Frame (RTF)” technology. Not to rain on other guns’ parades, but RTF is GTG (Good to Go); it makes an appreciable difference in humid or precipitous precipitate situations.

The obvious big deal here: Glock’s Smith & Wesson M& P and Springfield XD- chasing “Modular Back Strap System.” As it sits in the box, the G1. Gen. 3, decreasing the distance- to trigger by .

The pistol can be used as it comes; the handle is completely finished with the aforesaid RTF. Should the G1. 9’s handle prove too small, the owner can add either a medium or a large palm- swell. The medium attachment adds . Gen. 3 dimensions. The large back strap adds an additional . I experimented with the palm- swells to determine my best setup.

By way of comparison, I shoot my S& W M& P 4. I first tried the G1. Hooray and hallelujah, the handle geometry was as comfortable as a cashmere sweater on a chilly day.

Finally, I had found a Glock that didn’t feel like a block. That’s the good part.

The bad part was that the trigger now seemed too close. I installed the medium back strap to lengthen the distance twixt palm and trigger. This resulted in a trigger length that was perfect, but made the stock too thick for my hands. Just for giggles, I tried the large back strap. It made the gun very clumsy and brought back unfond memories of the Desert Eagle that I recently tested. I settled on no back strap as the best compromise for me. Changing backstraps is easy, but, like any gun club you care to mention, not tool- free.

Glock provides a small and a large pin to hold the selected back strap in place, and a little T- shaped punch tool to push the pin in or out of its hidey- hole. The process starts with knocking out the small pin, which is already installed in the pistol. Thumb pressure it all that’s required to push out the pin. The owner mat then snap an extra back strap into position. Push the correct- sized pin into the hole to hold the whole shooting match together, and that’s that. Installing the medium or large back strap with the proper pin takes just a minute and presto chango, the pistol is re- sized. The hexagonal rifling of the G1.

Glock’s tradition of polygonal rifling—as opposed to conventional lands and grooves—across its pistol line. Glock claims its rifling creates a tighter seal of bullet to barrel and reduced barrel fouling. While the data remains in- house, gunmakers have been using polygonal rifling since the 1. So we’ll call it good. The Glock 1. 9’s new dual recoil springs have been the G4’s headline attraction—and not in a good way.

According to Glock, the new dual- nested springs were included to soften recoil and lengthen the spring’s lifespan. Similar springs have been used in handguns for a long time. How To Install Y Pipe.

Yes but—how do you improve on perfection? More to the point, Glocks have been good, reliable and strong firearms, springs included.

Why fix what ain’t broke? Reduced recoil? 9mm Glocks have never recoiled harshly. Perhaps they were flippier than some and less flippy than others, but nobody thinks of flippiness or harsh recoil as Glock characteristics. Increased lifespan? That didn’t work out so well. The new springs—called the “Recoil Spring Assembly (RSA)” in Glock spiel—was troublesome. Owners reported Failure to Feed (FTF) and Failure to Eject (FTE) problems as soon as the first Gen.

G1. 7s hit the market. Users cured these FTF and FTE problems by installing a set of Gen. Glock moved quickly to head off a PR nightmare and offered replacement RSAs to its customers.

In Glock- speak, this was called an “upgrade,” not a recall. The replacements seem to be doing their job. Today’s buyers may plunk down their hard- earned cash without fear that their springs will fall by summer, leaving them with a winter of discontent. Moreover, the middle- school rumor mill that we call “the gun culture” is all quiet on the Glock front, reaffirming that the new springs are working as they should across the Glock pistol line. Glock polymer sights, with their single dot front and funky, squared- off U insert in the rear, have never been a favorite of mine.

The sights on my G1. I remembered. Not enough light passes along the sides of the front sight, so shooting with “equal light” is difficult. The problem isn’t that the front blade is too wide, it’s that the 6” sight radius is too short. Were the sight radius longer, the front blade would block less of the rear and all would be fine with the world. Alas, the sight radius won’t change, but the problem can be rectified by installing better sights.

The G1. 9 weighs under 2. While the gun does seem a tad top- heavy, it still balances like a ballerina and points well, too.

The gun’s geometry remains unchanged from Gen. Glock fans will be comfortable with the Gen. Down to business .

I used a traditional 6 o’clock hold to get a good feel for the pistol’s true point of impact. At five yards, I was an inch and a half low- left.

I noticed that I was depressing the trigger with my fingertip, not the pad. I never shoot with my fingertip, but with the small backstrap on the gun, my fingertip just went to the trigger automatically. I had to really concentrate on using the pad of my trigger finger with this pistol. My next two shots, using the pad, rectified the low part of my marksmanship and hit in the same hole. After tiny adjustment of my sight picture, I was on target with two in the red.

The trigger was a revelation.