Glock endurance test
Numbers: 60,207 rounds 12 stoppages
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April 4th, 2012 at 9:25 am
Always thought glock was the AK of pistols…
April 4th, 2012 at 9:28 am
No Kabooms? =P
April 4th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Years ago I put a G22 through 40K+ rounds in a year (yeah, I was kind of intense about my training back then); I got a non-induced* “click” exactly two times, and no other stoppages. After the tap-rack-press the cartridges in question were retrieved and both showed what appeared to be a solid primer hit. One out of the two fed and fired normally the second time it was loaded while the other was clearly a dud. So out of forty thousand rounds, one failure might be blamed on the gun, and it required nothing more than the basic immediate action drill to get the gun running again.
*i.e. not a set-up stoppage for training purposes via dummy rounds & etc.
Folks are always trying to find a better pistol and I guess “better” is in the eye of the beholder; I sure haven’t found a more reliable gun than the Glock.
April 4th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
That’s way better than my G20.
April 5th, 2012 at 12:32 am
My Glock 19 has just about 5000 rounds of mostly Blazer 9mm round nose through it over the past 7 years. The only failure to fire/eject/reload was when my then-13 year old daughter limp-wristed it near the end of her fist 15 round magazine. She was used to shooting a Ruger 22LR pistol, and the recoil plus big grip for her hands led to a poor grasp. She kept it pointed downrange, put it down on the lane shelf in front of her, and let me clear the empty shell that stove-piped. Then she shot several more magazines without a problem.
That works out to about the same failure ratio.
Glocks. Boring.
Sometimes boring is OK.