Jamie Jackson

Things break Lowpower. I've seen slides come off the backend of 1911's...Stuff happens brother. :pleased:   But I sure would hate to see this thread devolve into a Glock vs 1911 thing. We all make our choices, and live by those decisions. Embrace your 1911 love my friend. They are great guns....but in the end, they are all just tools.  :up:     Thank you Karnage, I trust they will.     Exactly GTG! It kept running. No injury. No harm.  Keep an eye open for a 2nd Gen 3 19 for me would you GTG?  Thank you buddy.

    2 pin Gen 3 G 19.

    Absolutely! :pleased:

Haha TNWNGR,   It's not the first Glock I've had go TU on me.   I blew up a Glock 21 with a double charged handload years back and Glock replaced it. Yes, they do have excellent customer service.   My Glocks are tools, and I treat them that way. I don't actually abuse them, but they do get worked hard and they don't get babied.   There are many excellent handguns being made. I still own a Colt and a few S&W's. But I am an admitted "Glock Guy" as they've demonstrated a great value for the money since I purchased my first Glock in '92.

    Yeah..I've seen them dropped and bend at that point when disassembled as well. Now this one has hit the deck many times in training, but always while it was fully assembled.     OK...I gotta do a search on this "meal" thing fellas. :ugh:

    LOL. the "RSA" in my OP is "Recoil Spring Assembly"...sorry for being "murky"...I change it frequently and have several new ones waiting in my parts kit. :pleased:   Thank you. I hope Glock get's it together for me as well.

I hope so peeJ.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed.   I fired around 150-200 rounds that session musicman...ran like a top.   I've not seen this particular issue with a Glock before. My guess is that there was a metallurgic defect in that portion of the slide. Realistically 30K isn't that much ammo to run through a handgun. (I honestly don't know the exact round count...I stopped tracking it around 30K and that was a few...several...years back).

My buddy Brad said " Everything mechanical breaks eventually"...Yep. he's right. :cool: I was at the range doing some practice drills last Sunday. Completely uneventful range session. When I got home I actually decided to clean my Glock 19. Now that's not something I do after each range session.(I normally just run a bore snake through it) Yes, I can be abusive to my Glock. But having better than 30K of rounds through it, I've come to trust that little sucker. I'll treat her better in the future. Here's a few pics of what I found... Well Heck! So now I know for certain that a Glock can be broken...you just have to shoot it enough! Actually I thought it would take more rounds than that... fwiw I do change my RSA every 1500-2000 rounds and keep my Glocks appropriately lubed. I contacted Anthony at the Glock service department in Smyrna and he told me to mail it to them. So I did...it should arrive by Friday. We'll see what happens. As an aside. I carry AIWB in a Dale Fricke Archangel holster. It accommodates my G 17 and G 26...so I'm GTG until my 19 comes home. But lesson learned on one front...I will be purchasing another 19...just in case. :ugh: http://dalefrickeholsters.com/product/archangel-appendix-carry/

    I can't comprehend why it wouldn't be. Go for it! :up:

tercel;   I've been handloading 9mm (and of course other calibers) for a long time now. I do have Lone Wolf barrels for my 17 & 19, but only purchased and used them when I was loading lead 147 gr bullets.   We now cast and PC and I loaded approximately 14,000 rounds of 9mm in 2014. No issues whatsoever with the brass out of factory barrels. And we use a lot of range pickup brass...   No should be GTG with your plan.   fwiw the Lone Wolf barrels have significantly closer tolerances than OEM Glock barrels and can be really finicky about what they feed...you really have to tailor the round to the barrel. I use a "U" die, or undersize die, when loading for my LW barrels, and you have to make sure the OAL works for the bullet you are using in LW barrels...it took me some "tweaking around" to come up with a reliable combo for my 147 lead bullets and the LW barrels.   From my experience the LW barrels are also very particular about which Self defense rounds they will feed as well...mine will not feed 147 gr factory rounds like Golden Saber. YMMV.

    Just PM Randy.aka Cruel Hand Luke (the OP) as GTG mentioned above.   Please join us. Great folks and quality instruction. I'm certainly looking forward to it.

Welcome aboard, welcome to TN,  and Thank you for your service.   NAS Millington was my first duty station after Corps School....looong ago... :up:

My preferred mag pouch for a number of years is the comp-tac single mag pouch...I carry 2 of them with G 17 mags in 'em. Quality product imho. Secure, but fast. A loose T Shirt covers them fine for me.   http://www.comp-tac.com/magazine-pouches/single-magazine-pouch-belt-clip-10230

E-mails out to the Senate Judiciary Committee members and an e-mail of Thanks to Senator Bell.   And Thank you JohnC. :up:

    From my admittedly limited experience (I've only fired one of those), That is one of the most inherently accurate handguns Sig ever made. The heel mag release didn't bother me in the least.

Believe it or not a Star PD. Alloy frame, no friggin' grip safety and one of the smoothest single action GM type pistols I've ever shot. PIA because of the proprietary magazines it used and the small plastic guiderod buffer it required about every 1000 rounds...I shot it a lot...and carried it a lot. I sold it in the late 90's...so no pic.   rep pic: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=469804060   I've since "gone Glock" and 9mm...but it was a nice little gun. :pleased:

I was thinking OMG initially as well. My bad...I too am out of the loop and that is in fact a good price for 45acp these days.   Good for you JPR. :up:

willis;   Thanks for "doing the work" on this and the update and clarification.   It's good to know that beyond my personal experiences with Benchmade (excellent so far) that they are still (again) adhering to quality standards.   As mentioned in my first post, I am rather fond of my Griptilian...and I have an AFCK I picked up at Gunsite in 1992 that is one heck of a smooth and ergonomic knife as well.   The AFO's look nice btw. Tempting... :pleased:

    Thanks David. I just put it in my Amazon "wish list".   I have Stoeger's "Dry-Fire Training: For the Practical Pistol Shooter" and it should arrive tomorrow (it's too friggin cold for my old bones to be outside right now)..."Twilight in America" will be next in line.   I've seen news snippets over the past several years about these camps. It would be foolish to totally dismiss the potentiality of such...not being disrespectful towards anyone with a differing opinion...but these are in fact "interesting times"...

    Looking forward to some feedback on the new IMR powders Omega. :up:

It is amazing. The missus & I were at Walmart Sunday and already the milk and bread were selling out...   So...Just in case you folks know someone that picked up excess bread and milk...here a kickass Bread Pudding recipe. :pleased:     http://www.landolakes.com/recipe/1914/old-fashioned-bread-pudding-with-vanilla-sauce   Man...I hope they grabbed some raisins too! :cool:

Did I miss something? There were zombies on SNL? :cool:   I'm personally liking this new direction. And OS was right, the despair was quite palpable. imho it's despair that's a true killer.

Very Nice kidd!  Thank you.

You were indeed fortunate. I have great respect for Tom Givens, and the Tac Conferences, so I am not surprised in any way that they would make that offer. I would be surprised if someone took one of Claude Werner's classes and wanted a refund. :cool:   Michael de Bethencourt is another person I would like to train under. He has done some remarkable course development in knife work and small gun deployment. I can't recall the name of the video, but I watched one of his on knife work that seemed extremely effective and pretty darn brutal...but that would be the "nature of the beast" as they say.

    Mr Werner's snubby class is right at the top of my "Training Wish List".     I hate that the Feb class didn't make, but look forward to what the future brings.