View Full Version : Thank God for Glock's Safety system
So tonight my family and I are heading down the mountain (3200 feet up) to The Peddler steakhouse in Gatlinburg, TN...it had just finished raining HARD. The cabin we rented is dated, and has a balcony out to the parking strip. As I stepped down off the balcony to put my 2 year old daughter in her car seat, it happened. I slipped and fell hard....while falling I managed roll through the fall, while tucking my daughter and slammed down directly onto my Glock 23 in the 3' o clock position...and then set my unscathed daughter down as I continued on over and pounded my ****ing head off the ground. My G23 was riding condition 1 in a crossbreed supertuck. My iPhone and medication went flying down the damn driveway, and my family came out and were all flipping out...my daughter was standing there asking me "what wrong daddy you K" my wife is like " what happened" oh gee dear I saw a spider and just flipped out and dropped me and my daughter what do you think happened.
Well, long story short...I hurt like a bitch-wolf my Glock worked, my daughter is ok, and dinner was amazing despite bleeding out of multiple bodily locations
Wow, it could have been much worse. Its nice to know that a Glock will not go off after a good slam. Get well soon.
Glad that youre ok.
when initially teaching my fiancee how to shoot a while back, i handed her a loaded glock 36, which she proceeded to drop. It did not fire when it hit the ground.
i dont hand anyone loaded weapons anymore!
Bigkrackers
03-20-12, 21:15
Pardon my naïveté but does Glock's safety system make it less prone to go off if the gun is hit hard over other manufacturer's guns like 1911's, Sig, HK?
William B.
03-20-12, 21:29
Glad you and your daughter are OK! Sorry for the thread drift, but how did your Crossbreed hold up to that hit?
Pardon my naïveté but does Glock's safety system make it less prone to go off if the gun is hit hard over other manufacturer's guns like 1911's, Sig, HK?
No.
I'm just glad that you didn't get any additional injury from landing on the gun.
A Glock makes for a poor cushion.
Yeah they don't go off from being dropped. IIRC, there was a YouTube video of a guy that dragged a loaded glock behind his truck several miles to see if it would discharge. It didn't, and it still functioned fine when he stopped and untied it
Eta: found it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_vu2xEN7kA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
All modern handguns shouldn't fire if they are slammed. I wrecked a 4 wheeler two years ago at 40 mph. The accident left an L shaped bruise on my chest from my XDm in the chest holster when I hit, then it flew out of the holster and 30 feet down the road. No damage at all to the pistol and no AD...
Glad you are o.k. !NvasiOn
Glad you and your daughter are OK! Sorry for the thread drift, but how did your Crossbreed hold up to that hit?
Miraculously, the Crossbreed Is unscathed too! The holster retained the gun perfectly. The whole shebang is ok...including my daughter...I feel like I've been hit by a car :) but I'll live. Hopefully Glock puts a Tempurpedic overmold grip on Gen 5's
Sounds like your Glock took one for you. If it hadn't been there, you could have jacked your hip up even worse...
The glock striker is not mounted until you pull the trigger, and it has a FP safety. If you protect the trigger from being pulled, it won't shoot.
Some other modern pistols may drop the hammer due to a heavy blow (specially if they have tuned sears/hammer hooks), but most have a firing pin safety that will prevent firing.
Now, if you have a pistol with sears/hammer hooks tuned for a light release, and it does not have a FP safety, all that is preventing an accidental shot in a situation like this is the hammer safety notch, and this is not a very positive safety.
Glad to hear your daughter is ok.
Beat Trash
03-21-12, 10:14
Glad to hear the daughter is ok. I flashed back to my own "tuck and roll" incident when my daughter was little.
It's incidents like this that reminds us why the extra few bucks spent on quality guns and holsters are worth it in the end. Most modern guns are drop safe, like the Glock is. But a lot of cheap holsters would have sent the gun flying down the driveway along with your phone.
Have your daughter put a ban-aide on your boo boo and give it a kiss. She'll get a kick out of it, and it will be the only thing you remember from the trip in 20 years.
I KNOW first hand of 2 1911's that went bang when hit hard, one was in condition 1 and when it went off it sheared the thumb safety, the other the safety was off and it went bang with no damage other than cosmetic to the gun.....
THAT said SOME MODERN firearms can and will go bang if dropped !
Glad you're safe. Did you got to the Bullfish Grill? If not, you HAVE to go while you're up there. It's the only location in the world and is absolutely fantastic.
I love happy endings. Good on ya. I love the split second presence of mind to manage the tuck to shield the little one, absorb the hit, release the little one and continue on your bouncing way. Nicely done!
Safety are to be appreciated. I once dropped a condition 1 BHP from chest height onto cement. It landed straight on the hammer. I was staring straight down the bore when it hit. I loved John Browning at that moment.
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