" Nil desperandum - Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. "
- Samuel Adams -
I hear that repeated all the time but I don’t think you can make such a case. Repeating some sort of elitist superiority because of chosen pistol is juvenile. Sometimes you need to get out of your bubble.
Run by a USPSA match and you’ll see guys running nearly any brand you can think of...and there will be high round count guns. One guy I know has been shooting an XD for ten years with around 10,000 rounds a year on it. He cracked the slide around 70,000 rounds.
Hell, I’m shooting two CZs I got earlier this year and I’m at 20,000 on them in six months and I dry-fire an hour four times a week. I put 14k on a VP9 in two years time back a few years ago.
Swing over to pistol forum and you’ll see guy putting lots of rounds on Beretta 92s and PX4s. There’s a few guys running HKs and CZs hard there, too.
Go read BEnos and see all the CZs, Tanfos, 2011s, etc people are putting rounds on. There is a whole world outside of Colt and Glock.
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JFTDC Just buy a G19 or a G17 and get a life
I guess we're lucky, we've never gotten brass to the face in thousands of accumulated rnds through gen3 G19s, a gen3 G23 sometimes converted to 9mm, and a gen4 G19.
Van Halen's lame.
The second semi-auto I ever owned was a G19 Gen2 back in the early 90's. I traded a vintage BHP for it on the recommendation of a good shooting buddy. I really wanted to like it and I practiced with it for over a year but it just didn't work out for me. I finally had to admit I shot revos and the old BHP better. So I sold it. Later I bought one of the rough texture models with the old fish gill slide cuts. Again I wanted to like it but as before, I had to admit, I shot my DA CZ and Beretta 92 better. I still think from time to time I may try one again because it's such a nice size package but I'm busy now with AR's and carbine shooting.
A great pistol no doubt but not for everyone.
There's a good collection of BTDT types and SME's here and elsewhere who don't particularly like Glocks, a few of whom and posted in this thread. I"m no BTDT type, but I often recommend Glocks to newbies as a good option, even if I don't particularly like them recognizing their strong points as good all around choices for many.
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“Those who do not view armed self defense as a basic human right, ignore the mass graves of those who died on their knees at the hands of tyrants.”
I don't particularly like Glocks, either. But we live in a Glock world. Every gun that's supposed to be the Glock-killer has failed to dethrone them. None of them have even come close - and there's something to be said for Glock showing up firstest with the mostest.
I'm a snowflake, so I don't normally carry one (and don't always own one). But I recognize the myriad benefits of them and understand why people who know tend to choose them. Doesn't mean it's what I prefer to carry and doesn't mean Glock isn't the king of serious, hard-use handguns.
" Nil desperandum - Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. "
- Samuel Adams -
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