Things have been kind of slow on this forum lately so I thought I'd gin things up a bit .
I was slaving away on my yard today - fixing up my deck, shredding leaves, branches and other left over winter detritus, starting up the lawn mower etc. when I got a call from my pistolero buddy: "Let's go down to our pistol club I've got a new one and you'll love it." Off we go, sign in, get in our lanes and he pulls out of his range bag a mini Glock 26.
Well I must admit he shot it exceedingly well at about five - seven yards. He is a very disciplined and very good pistol shot and quite able to move from one style of handgun to another and adjust his shooting style accordingly.
Of course I had to try it. Honestly it took me four pulls on the trigger before I could get it to fire. The trigger pull was heavy and spongy and had to be between 12 and 14 lbs. I kept looking for a safety that I had inadvertently left on . My first two shots were all over the target and the third was finally in the bullseye. My buddy walked over to my lane and with a grin on his face chuckled, "What do you think of the trigger ?" On the drive home he was already surfing for Glock trigger kits.
As most of you know while I'm no fan of black striker fired pistols I've shot many with nice triggers - FN, Walther etc. but this Glock trigger was atrocious. I have no doubt that with some work this would make a decent poodle shooter but it's painful for me to imagine some newbie walking into a Gander Mountain (if they're still in business) and walking out with one of these thinking he's all set to go with a "shootable" CC pistol.
On a lighter note my favored MKIII Hi-Power was starting to get a little glitchy. I was getting a failure to eject every hundred rounds or so - this was with my mixed-bag "brass rat" reloads not with new Starline stuff. I bought this well used pistol about twelve years ago and it probably has an estimated 35,000 - 45,000 rounds thru it (???) So time for a tune-up. New magazine springs, new extractor including a stout BH Springs Solution* extractor spring, new ejector and a new recoil and firing pin spring. Really felt good to be able to do this sort of maintenance myself. Three hundred and fifty rounds in the last two days (slow fire, rapid fire and everything in between) without a glitch and it can still put twelve rounds into a half - dollar size bullseye at ten yards. It just wants to "...keeps on trucking'..." :
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9mm Hi-Power
*This is evidently somewhat of a new outfit and they make "upgraded" springs for a number of handguns including various tools specific to that handgun. I picked a so-called "third hand hammer block" and a device to make changing the firing pin spring on a HP much easier. A very nice outfit to deal with and they have scads of you-tube videos on the use of their products. At this point they get a strong thumbs up from me.
I was slaving away on my yard today - fixing up my deck, shredding leaves, branches and other left over winter detritus, starting up the lawn mower etc. when I got a call from my pistolero buddy: "Let's go down to our pistol club I've got a new one and you'll love it." Off we go, sign in, get in our lanes and he pulls out of his range bag a mini Glock 26.
Well I must admit he shot it exceedingly well at about five - seven yards. He is a very disciplined and very good pistol shot and quite able to move from one style of handgun to another and adjust his shooting style accordingly.
Of course I had to try it. Honestly it took me four pulls on the trigger before I could get it to fire. The trigger pull was heavy and spongy and had to be between 12 and 14 lbs. I kept looking for a safety that I had inadvertently left on . My first two shots were all over the target and the third was finally in the bullseye. My buddy walked over to my lane and with a grin on his face chuckled, "What do you think of the trigger ?" On the drive home he was already surfing for Glock trigger kits.
As most of you know while I'm no fan of black striker fired pistols I've shot many with nice triggers - FN, Walther etc. but this Glock trigger was atrocious. I have no doubt that with some work this would make a decent poodle shooter but it's painful for me to imagine some newbie walking into a Gander Mountain (if they're still in business) and walking out with one of these thinking he's all set to go with a "shootable" CC pistol.
On a lighter note my favored MKIII Hi-Power was starting to get a little glitchy. I was getting a failure to eject every hundred rounds or so - this was with my mixed-bag "brass rat" reloads not with new Starline stuff. I bought this well used pistol about twelve years ago and it probably has an estimated 35,000 - 45,000 rounds thru it (???) So time for a tune-up. New magazine springs, new extractor including a stout BH Springs Solution* extractor spring, new ejector and a new recoil and firing pin spring. Really felt good to be able to do this sort of maintenance myself. Three hundred and fifty rounds in the last two days (slow fire, rapid fire and everything in between) without a glitch and it can still put twelve rounds into a half - dollar size bullseye at ten yards. It just wants to "...keeps on trucking'..." :
9mm Hi-Power
*This is evidently somewhat of a new outfit and they make "upgraded" springs for a number of handguns including various tools specific to that handgun. I picked a so-called "third hand hammer block" and a device to make changing the firing pin spring on a HP much easier. A very nice outfit to deal with and they have scads of you-tube videos on the use of their products. At this point they get a strong thumbs up from me.