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How does a Glock work?

Posted 01-22-2012 at 13:27 by Butch

How does a Glock work?

Very well!

After putting a loaded magazine in the magazine well, you let the slide slam shut to push a round out of the magazine and into the chamber. At the same time the rear edge of the trigger bar ‘grabs’ the firing pin lug
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and pulls the firing pin part of the way back to a ‘partially cocked’ position.
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GAPophobia

Posted 04-21-2011 at 20:59 by Butch

GAPophobia

According to *Butch's* dictionary.....

GAPophobia:
An innate fear of the use by anyone of the .45 GAP cartridge in preference to the .45 ACP cartridge.

GAPophobes always seem to want to argue about how there is no purpose for the .45 GAP cartridge, no reason for it to exist. No amount of bandwidth wastage on the subject is too much!

They completely and callously disregard the fact that some people don't have hands that...
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Using the Glock Magazine Loader

Posted 12-02-2010 at 11:42 by Butch
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It's not uncommon for folks (especially new Glock owners) to not quickly understand how to use the supplied magazine loading tool, so, here ya go!

Put the mag loader over the top of the magazine tube and push it all the way down to make room for the next cartridge.
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While holding the loading tool down, start the round into the mag by pushing it back against the mag...
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Trigger Spring Broke? Keep Shooting!

Posted 07-12-2010 at 23:18 by Butch

A lot of Glock owners (and some ‘would be’ Glock owners), are afraid that the trigger spring on their Glock will break and then the gun won’t work. Not true! You just need to know how to work it!

Some Glockers will go so far as to replace the coil trigger spring with a New York trigger spring to insure that they don’t have a breakage. This does work OK, but it also makes the trigger pull a whole lot heavier, and it’s really not needed.

Most of the time when a coil trigger...
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Glock Trigger Combinations

Posted 07-01-2010 at 10:27 by Butch
Updated 08-25-2010 at 09:38 by Butch

Glock makes three connectors and three trigger springs:
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Use of the coil spring with any of the three connectors gives a trigger break weight of approximately the weight listed for the connector used. Changes in the power of springs involved, and apparently inaccurate weight...
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