Went this morning to apply for my CHL and on the way back stopped at the gun store and got a Ruger LCP and Glock 19 Gen 4. Also did my good deed for the day. I had to haggle a little bit on price because this particular store is a little hefty with their markups... Didn't get the price I wanted but got them to shave some off - the alternative was driving across town, dealing with a guy who's kind of an ass, and waiting for him to order the Glock. When I checked out I thought the total seem low, but didn't question it. Took a glance at my receipt at the first stoplight and realized that the guy had entered the Glock in the register as $3xx instead of $5xx... $200 discount. 😵 So I pondered it a few seconds then drove back and told him his mistake. Halfway hoped he'd knock off a few more bucks for honesty, but of course not. Oh well, I hope lady karma was paying attention at least. 🙄
So first up, "Glock Perfection":
G19 Gen4, according to the bag with the proof case born on 1/19/12. Comes with 2 changeable backstraps and 3 15 round mags. Field strip and cleaning are easy, although I did make the mistake of disassembling and cleaning the mags. Good lord. Glock does a lot of things awesomely right, but magazine design wasn't one of them - they're a massive pain to get apart.
Off to the range, where I shot about 275 rounds through it, a mix of 115gr FMJ, 124gr JHP and 147gr JHP. I know there were some teething issues with the Gen 4's, but I had zero problems today. The gun did occasionally toss brass back towards my head, but about 95% of it went over my right shoulder. The Glock armor at our range claims that's not unusual even for Gen 2 & 3 Glocks, and I'm not worried about it. I went shooting with the medium backstrap, which is supposed to give the same size grip as the G19 Gen 3. Shot well enough, but in the future I'm switching to the stock grip sans backstrap, as my hand was working its way up on the grip and got a few kisses from the slide (I have big, beefy hands...).
After a couple hundred rounds of having fun and getting used to it I shot this target, 50 rounds of Federal 147gr JHP at 10 yards:
Next up, the Elsie Pea (LCP), Ruger's pocket rocket:
According to the proof bag, born on 10/19/2011. Only comes with 1 mag (seriously Ruger?) but does include a soft case. Again pretty easy to strip and clean, just pop a pin out of the side.
Shooting the LCP... well, there's really no way to put it other than saying that this gun isn't fun to shoot unless you limit yourself to a few dozen rounds at a time. I went through about 120 rounds total, mix of 100gr RNFP and 92gr JHP (and my hand is still slightly sore, lol). There was a noticeable difference in recoil between the 100gr and 92gr rounds. Also, I was shooting with the stock baseplate on the magazines. *Hopefully* switching to the extended baseplates will help keep a better grip on it in the future, but even so that small thin frame batters your hand with recoil. The trigger pull doesn't seem very heavy, but it's looooooooooooong. Between that, and the nearly non-existent sights, my accuracy with the gun was pretty crappy to put it mildly.
It'll serve its purpose as a small gun to drop in a pocket or etc, but I don't think it's going to be one that I take to the range for fun very often. 😀
A mix of target ammo and hollow points at 7 yards:
So first up, "Glock Perfection":
G19 Gen4, according to the bag with the proof case born on 1/19/12. Comes with 2 changeable backstraps and 3 15 round mags. Field strip and cleaning are easy, although I did make the mistake of disassembling and cleaning the mags. Good lord. Glock does a lot of things awesomely right, but magazine design wasn't one of them - they're a massive pain to get apart.
Off to the range, where I shot about 275 rounds through it, a mix of 115gr FMJ, 124gr JHP and 147gr JHP. I know there were some teething issues with the Gen 4's, but I had zero problems today. The gun did occasionally toss brass back towards my head, but about 95% of it went over my right shoulder. The Glock armor at our range claims that's not unusual even for Gen 2 & 3 Glocks, and I'm not worried about it. I went shooting with the medium backstrap, which is supposed to give the same size grip as the G19 Gen 3. Shot well enough, but in the future I'm switching to the stock grip sans backstrap, as my hand was working its way up on the grip and got a few kisses from the slide (I have big, beefy hands...).
After a couple hundred rounds of having fun and getting used to it I shot this target, 50 rounds of Federal 147gr JHP at 10 yards:
Next up, the Elsie Pea (LCP), Ruger's pocket rocket:
According to the proof bag, born on 10/19/2011. Only comes with 1 mag (seriously Ruger?) but does include a soft case. Again pretty easy to strip and clean, just pop a pin out of the side.
Shooting the LCP... well, there's really no way to put it other than saying that this gun isn't fun to shoot unless you limit yourself to a few dozen rounds at a time. I went through about 120 rounds total, mix of 100gr RNFP and 92gr JHP (and my hand is still slightly sore, lol). There was a noticeable difference in recoil between the 100gr and 92gr rounds. Also, I was shooting with the stock baseplate on the magazines. *Hopefully* switching to the extended baseplates will help keep a better grip on it in the future, but even so that small thin frame batters your hand with recoil. The trigger pull doesn't seem very heavy, but it's looooooooooooong. Between that, and the nearly non-existent sights, my accuracy with the gun was pretty crappy to put it mildly.
It'll serve its purpose as a small gun to drop in a pocket or etc, but I don't think it's going to be one that I take to the range for fun very often. 😀
A mix of target ammo and hollow points at 7 yards:
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