I've never owned or fired a Glock, Pad.Originally Posted by Paul55
Have you ever tried a Glock? They must be the most boring looking pistol in the world, IMO, but when I read the tests they had to go through to be accepted by the Austrian military as a service pistol I was amazed
Check here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_pistol
For me the most iconic design has to be the Colt 1911, for a design to have endured so long it was a classic at birth.
I have to agree with you though that if I had to possess something for personal protection it would a small revolver, ultra reliable when you most need it.
Over the years, I've owned: a Colt Government Model .45: a Colt .380 Pony:
a High Standard Military Citation .22: a Keltec 9mm: and a Keltec .380.
The Citation jammed about 1 round per magazine. The Pony jammed about 50% of the time. The Keltec 9 functioned flawlessly with full metal jackets, but sometimes jammed with hollow points. The Keltec .380 jammed occasionally with either FMJ or hollowpoints.
The only one that never jammed - though I have to add that I never fired anything in it but FMJ - was the .45 Colt.
I used to keep it in my bedroom dresser for protection.
One day at the range it went off - while I was pointing it downrange at the target, but do not consciously remember pulling the trigger, though obviously I did: the pistol wasn't "possessed". And, I'd never had any sort of trigger work done on it to tighten or lighten the pull.
But that's a second thing that caused me to shy away from auto pistols: not only do they frequently malfunction, but it takes only a very little trigger pressure to make that cocked and loaded gun go off!
There's a saying that to have an accident with a revolver, you have to be either very careless, or very stupid: but to have an accident with an autoloader,you have to be only a little careless, or a little stupid.
Jim
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