Your guns are going to fail

[okie]

So while I'm in between houses I've been living out at our acreage in the RV, which has given me lots of time to try and shoot up all the practice ammo I've been accumulating for over a decade.

In less than a week of that, I've found out that my thought to be bomb proof, Crane approved aftermarket trigger is a POS, and that Glock front sights are absolute garbage. The new trigger with only a thousand rounds on it started firing bursts at maybe the 3-5 hundred round mark, then started failing to reset, and now fires a burst and fails to reset maybe five times per mag. I googled it, and apparently I'm far from the only one to have that problem.

Then as if that weren't bad enough, my front sight flew off my Glock 19 while I was shooting it! And now it's lost in the grass somewhere and have zero expectation of finding it. And yes, I used the red stuff, which apparently isn't quite as tenacious as its reputation might suggest.

Prior to this week, I was firmly convinced that my guns were rock solid and ready to go. Granted the AR is relatively new, but it's a stock Colt (besides the trigger that shall remain nameless), and the Glock I've had for over ten years, with the sights on it for probably the last five, and have put many rounds through it. In retrospect though I'm not sure what convinced Glock it was a good idea to hold the sight on with a tiny little screw like that. I guess the results should have been predictable.

So yea, that's about it. Long story short, I found out that my primary and my backup, which is also my daily carry, were in fact NOT good to go. And am now having to trash a three hundred dollar trigger and a two hundred dollar set of sights.

But seriously, like 98% of guns are going to go down if shit ever hits the fan, and I'm probably being conservative. I'm a dude who buys only high quality, battle tested guns to begin with, and is extremely judicious with any aftermarket mods, and I still can't seem to get it right. God help all these people on social media buying PSAs and tricking them out with all manner of crap.

[DG23]

Then as if that weren't bad enough, my front sight flew off my Glock 19 while I was shooting it! And now it's lost in the grass somewhere and have zero expectation of finding it.

https://www.harborfreight.com/17-in-...yABEgLa2_D_BwE

Not same exact one but use similar at the shop and it works...

[okie]

https://www.harborfreight.com/17-in-...yABEgLa2_D_BwE

Not same exact one but use similar at the shop and it works...

Gonna have to look into that, thanks! Not sure if the sight is steel or aluminum though.

[Bulletdog]

I'm sorry to hear of your troubles, but my experience has been different.

I've got several Glocks with over ten thousand rounds through them after dozens of classes and I've not lost a front sight on any of them. Nor a rear sight for that matter.

Like wise on the AR triggers. I've got whatever came standard on 2008 LMT lowers, some stripped lowers built with DD parts kits, and some with Geissele ALG triggers or SSA triggers. Again with multiple thousands of rounds of practice shooting and classes with not one single failure of any kind in the bunch.

My guns appear to not be failing. I suppose any of them could fail the next time out, but they haven't so far.

[Coal Dragger]

I’ve had no failures in any of my quality AR’s with Geissele triggers or my KAC SR-15.

That said there’s a reason it’s a good idea to keep spare parts. Better yet keep spare guns if you can. Sometimes stuff breaks, if you have spares you can get your boom stick or blaster back up and running.

[Arik]

I'm an oem kind of guy. Don't know if that's better or not but I can't be bothered diddling with firearms, or anything really. It either works for me straight from the factory or I don't buy it.

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[FromMyColdDeadHand]

The older I get, the more I like stock stuff. You change one thing and it can have knock on effects that you can’t anticipate.

[ViniVidivici]

Okie, count yourself fortunate that you got to figure that shit out ahead of time.

This is how you find out if your shit is TRULY solid. You run it.

That's how some of us DO know our shit is GTG.

[SteyrAUG]

The only thing that needs to be swapped out on Glocks are factory sights if they are not NS models.

That front sight (standard) is an absolute piece of plastic garbage. I would NEVER replace a factory Glock trigger, people do that trying to get a nicer trigger break but that is just the way striker fired triggers are. If you try and improve them, something else is going to give.

Order some trijicon or mepro NS and return the trigger to stock and your life will be vastly improved.

After being a gunsmith going on 20 years, and amateur fixer an additional 10 years, most firearm failures I've seen are self imposed "improvements" done by the owner.

Glocks and AKs are considered by many to be virtually indestructible buy I've seen both rendered useless by aftermarket products. It's a goddamn AK, it's never gonna have a trigger break as nice as your bolt action hunting rifle.

Add to that, thousands of people with a "sample of one" dropping their firearms experience and suggestions on the internet. "My [insert only crappy gun I've ever owned] has been flawless and shoots 1MOA at 10 miles."

[SteyrAUG]

Okie, count yourself fortunate that you got to figure that shit out ahead of time.

This is how you find out if your shit is TRULY solid. You run it.

That's how some of us DO know our shit is GTG.

Concentrated truth. Now if only we could inform the entire internet.