All i ever hear is how ugly Glocks are...its a brick...how pretty does your hammer need to be...I'm not saying 1911s aren't beautiful but personally i love the look of Glocks. Maybe because I'm a minimalist i like things that are simple and to the point. But when i see a glock at least to me its like the definition of what a handgun should be. If they're so ugly why does everyone have them...our is it just me...
Yep Glocks might be ugly. But I have not had a Glock not fire on me. I have shoot two 1911 that parts fell off of and another one the safety jammed in the safe position dry firing with less that 500 rds. Fired through that gun.
Have you ever owned a totally reliable POS car? You can park that slab anywhere, drive it in a blizzard, if a runaway shopping cart nails it, you laugh. On a moments whim you could drive it cross country and know you'd get there just fine. Add gas and drive it like you stole it.
Glocks are ugly like that. Shoot em, clean em, enough.
Kind of reminds me of this, what a Glock is built for to start with, and how many Glocks thrive in various kinds of deserts. From the frozen wastes of Alaska to the burning sands of the American South West, the Middle East, and Old Mexico.
"Any thing beautiful in the desert is beautiful by accident. It isn't a survival trait. Things that survive in the desert are usually ugly, mean, and nasty, and just generally disagreeable."
Sounds like the description of a pistol I want, when the woods, or the dessert gets quiet.
They are ugly but fairly affordable and very reliable. They are the Honda of guns. I just bought my first Glock not long ago and love it but they do all pretty much look the same besides the different sizes. Mine is a Glock 20, 10mm is my new favorite cartridge.
Beauty comes in many forms. From a shape standpoint I would have to say Glocks to me are pretty butt ugly. From a mechanical elegance standpoint, they may be the most beautiful gun I have ever seen.
When I see a manufacturer of handguns clearly making the gun look cool with many of the angles and shapes put there for aesthetic reasons only, I frankly just laugh. I can picture the industrial designer saying at the meeting, "this is going to really sell to the video game crowd, we will only need to place it in the next big action shoot'em up and it will fly off the shelf.."
I'm not a big james yeager fan but I like his analogy about how 1911s are strippers and glocks are fat girls. "1911s are cool to show off to friends but are high maintenance and expensive. Fat girls (glocks) do things others don't (be there when you need them most etc..." Not verbatim but to the point
This is true for tightly fitted 1911's such as bullseye guns and the like but a loosely fitted and properly hand tuned 1911 like your grandpa's WWII model is anything but finicky.
Manufacturers who think they don't need to hire and train people to hand tune 1911's before they are sold need to quit making 1911's. These manufacturers are giving the breed a bad reputation the 1911 doesn't deserve.
I showed a friend of mine pictures of a 'hello kitty' ar-15 and a purple ar-15 and she thought they looked cute. Now the pink glocks I've seen aren't that cute but a purple one maybe....?
On the other hand I've seen photos of 1911's that are all glittery and blingy with pearl grips and rhinestones and chrome plated and crap....and I've never seen a Glock decorated like that...
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