The King done gone Glock

thats right, ended up getting a new carry pistol today, tried finding a Glock 32 but was unsuccessful, but i found a sweet deal on a Glock 19

I salute you sir on picking up a fine weapon and not getting overcharged on some 1911 piece of crap.

I shall by a Burger King meal in your honor tomorrow!

Cool. From everything I've heard, Glocks are fine guns.

You know what? We can settle this once and for all.

You and me, seven yards apart. You with your wonderful Glock, and me with my piece of crap 1911.

We each take turns firing one round until one of use either conceeds or can no longer breathe.

I go first.

Deal?

Please. That post almost makes me think that Apostle's your dual. You've blown your cover.

didn't even know the gen 4 was out, didnt see one

Is it the rough grip one or a standard 3rd generation Glock?

I don't like the new rough grip.

looks like this one http://www.avalonverse.com/mypictures/Glock-19.jpg I really like the grip, better than the SW40VE I had by far

Come on. That was funny.

Besides, howcome you get to play the "My gun is better than your gun." game over and over and over....andoverandoverandover again, but when I do it once in...like forever, all of a sudden I'm channeling Apostle?

Because it wasn't funny. It was something stupid like Apostle would say.

I forgot that you're the arbiter of all that is good and funny.

Shoes, the reason it's stupid to him is that he knows he would lose.

I thought grenades were illegal?

When he's pretending to be you when posting it's rather easy to spot what is good and what is funny.

That particular post was neither.

If Shoes couldn't win by going first then he shouldn't be carrying.

Zombie, lets be super serious here. Super serial, even.

I'm sorry we pick on your pooow widdle gwocks.

See another bad post. No one in this thread is picking on Glocks.

So you just went nuts for no reason?

Don't look now, but that was sorta kinda, tangententally, the point's first cousin!

The whole "my gun can beat up your gun" bit is kinda lame. I resolved the M1911 vs. Glock debate years ago: I got both.

Few will deny that Glock are fine guns: lightweight, large capacity, reliable, easy to carry and shoot, and available in many effective calibers. But the venerable Colt's been stopping bad guys in their tracks for 99 years.

If called upon to defend myself with a handgun, I wouldn't feel shorted with either.

why has a thread about me showing off my new carry pistol gotten into a glock v 1911 debate? I have both and I like both

Let's get it back on topic then. The Glock 19/23 series of compacts are some of my favorites. I have a 23C and a 19. Due to who was carrying it at the time, I had a 1911-style manual thumb safety put on the 19.

I don't like the-C models, the flash from the compensator will fuck up your vision in the dark after your first shot

That really happens?

Everyone I know who has a C model says they have no problem firing in the dark.

It would make sense. The compensator, if I remember from shooting a glock that had one, vents up and back - which is opposite of the way recoil pushes.

That's right in your line of site when aiming.

I've been shooting in the dark for a long, long time. I purposefully worked nights long after I had seniority to move to days because that's where the "fun" is.

It doesn't effect you any more than the fireball coming out of the muzzle or the light under the dust cover.

It vents straight up in a little v-shape. Magnaport and Glock are one of the few companies that vent it straight up, and I'm glad of that. Because other companies don't go straight up, they have a tendency to blacken the front sight or completely blow it off.

maybe it's just me, my eyes are pretty sensitive and I have excellent night vision

yeah, friend of mine has a 17C he let me try out

can anyone recommend a good pistol flashlight?

I have both a Streamlight TLR-1 and Streamlight M-3. Both are fine lights, but for duty use I prefer the TLR-1. I haven't broken out the tape measure and scales, but the TLR-1 seems to be slightly smaller and slightly lighter. It's also aluminum. There's also no question that it's the brighter of the two.

So, the TLR-1 goes to work and the M-3 stays attached to my nightstand gun.