Here is a copy of my reply post on the firing line for the thread titled: "Let's talk about the 45 GAP"..
I have given up on Glock. (I've owned at least 10 of them) I've had way too many failures to go into battery resulting in misfires, bullet nose dives into the feed ramp, brass ejecting onto my forehead. Plus the bulge on my G21 brass from lack of chamber support was enough for me to sell it.
I am constantly hearing people having to use solid guide rods, changing magazine springs, recoil springs, changing mag followers etc just to get some sort of reliability out of the pistol. Sure there are those people who get 1000's of rounds of shooting without any malfunction, but those people are rare compared to the people having problems. I seemed to have drifted off topic
..I still don't see a need for the .45 GAP
Why did Glock need a big slide for the 45 GAP? The Glock 36 sure doesn't have one.. By going with a big slide, Glock is virtually admitting the smaller slide (ala Glock 36) doesn't work very well..
Glock needs to quit dicking around with minutia, and do a major redesign of their product. Everyone knows Glock magazines suck. Glock should go with an all steel magazine, use a more vertical grip angle, thereby allowing Glock to use a fully supported chamber. Instead, Glock is still using unsupported chambers and is relying on the thick web of the .45 GAP case to prevent rupture. Why else would he use the thick web but to prevent an ongoing problem? Most Glockers blame KaBooms on bad reloads and shooting lead bullets, when the problem is the freaking bullet is slamming into the feedramp, jamming the bullet down into the case, resulting in a mini-pipe bomb. Combine that with a thin brittle chamber and the results are apparent. There is no doubt in my mind there will be KaBooms with factory ammo in the G37. A thick case will do alot to prevent case rupture, but only to a certain degree. Again, Glock needs chamber support.. but does Glock listen?
..nope
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I have given up on Glock. (I've owned at least 10 of them) I've had way too many failures to go into battery resulting in misfires, bullet nose dives into the feed ramp, brass ejecting onto my forehead. Plus the bulge on my G21 brass from lack of chamber support was enough for me to sell it.
I am constantly hearing people having to use solid guide rods, changing magazine springs, recoil springs, changing mag followers etc just to get some sort of reliability out of the pistol. Sure there are those people who get 1000's of rounds of shooting without any malfunction, but those people are rare compared to the people having problems. I seemed to have drifted off topic
..I still don't see a need for the .45 GAP
Why did Glock need a big slide for the 45 GAP? The Glock 36 sure doesn't have one.. By going with a big slide, Glock is virtually admitting the smaller slide (ala Glock 36) doesn't work very well..
Glock needs to quit dicking around with minutia, and do a major redesign of their product. Everyone knows Glock magazines suck. Glock should go with an all steel magazine, use a more vertical grip angle, thereby allowing Glock to use a fully supported chamber. Instead, Glock is still using unsupported chambers and is relying on the thick web of the .45 GAP case to prevent rupture. Why else would he use the thick web but to prevent an ongoing problem? Most Glockers blame KaBooms on bad reloads and shooting lead bullets, when the problem is the freaking bullet is slamming into the feedramp, jamming the bullet down into the case, resulting in a mini-pipe bomb. Combine that with a thin brittle chamber and the results are apparent. There is no doubt in my mind there will be KaBooms with factory ammo in the G37. A thick case will do alot to prevent case rupture, but only to a certain degree. Again, Glock needs chamber support.. but does Glock listen?
..nope
__________________
"All yer base are belong to us."
-- Me