I haven't had a chance to shoot it much since its completion. Im going to the range sunday. I put a few rounds through it just to ensure it functioned as I went with the lightest everything since its strictly a target gun. Ill give a range report when I get back.
Im gonna guess so. Judging by home many cases Ive had fly over my head or hit me in the head with pistols over the years Im thinking thats what will happen.
Th hot ticket for sighting in a dot is a bore laser, like the SightMark. Set it at about 30 yards, and you are dead nuts without blowing thru a bunch of caps.
Th hot ticket for sighting in a dot is a bore laser, like the SightMark. Set it at about 30 yards, and you are dead nuts without blowing thru a bunch of caps.
You don't need backup sights, that's a bunch of Tactical Teddy nonsense started by Gabe Suarez. Open Division guns have been around in competition since the mid 70s' and today's dots are 1000 times better and the batteries last for years. Inside of 7 yards you just look thru the window.
Compensators are really for competition, they do cause the gun to run flatter, but you have to hand load your rounds very hot to make them work right. And running Major 9 in a Glock is very hard on the gun. They won't run on white box ammo.'
Brass to the face seems like a late model Gen3 issue. My kid ended up putting in the Gen 4 ejector and an Apex extractor. That fixed the problem.
Here he is testing it, even throws it out without a magazine, OEM Glocks won't do that.
And running my 25 year old 2 pin G17 at a local steel match, about 18 yards out
That was the stage design. Makes it a little tougher. All competitions have stages that require movement and awkward shooting positions. It's not just standing behind a bench.
After just replacing the sights on all 4 of my glocks, I can't recommend Dawson Precision, enough. Buy direct from them, and they have a point of aim impact guarantee. All 4 of my glocks were shooting high, they sent me 4 corrected front sights for all 4 guns, hassle free. Customer service is top shelf. But if it is strictly a race run, I wouldn't worry about it.
And I concur with the zev trigger. Beware, when I run the #2 firing pin spring with Aguilla ammunition (which MAY have harder primers?) I get light primer strikes. I personally need to run at least the #3 spring. YMMV with softer primers.
All 4 of my gen4 glocks spit brass into my face or onto my head. Same with my shooting partner's 4 glocks. My favorite is when a hot piece of brass wedges itself between my scalp and my earpro. hot hot hot!
I'm no glock expert... just became a glock shooter a little over a year ago. What I remember HEARING, was that the Gen3s are fine, and the "brass to the face" was something introduced with the Gen4. I could be totally wrong...Maybe I am missremembering or I got bogus info, but all 8 glocks I have experience with (my 4, and my buddies 4), all shoot brass back at us. Actually, one of my buddies is a gen3 I think, maybe that one doesn't do it. We shoot so many guns so frequently, back and forth it's a bit tough to keep them all straight. But I believe all our gen4s do it.
Every time we go up shooting together, we come back down with 2 or 3 black marks on our foreheads Doesn't really bother us.
Refer to the close-up picture of the dot above. That is what the latest and greatest Glocks do. Eject straight up at your face -hopefully you have a dot to block them.
The Apex extractors with stronger springs help, but do not totally fix the problem.
Th hot ticket for sighting in a dot is a bore laser, like the SightMark. Set it at about 30 yards, and you are dead nuts without blowing thru a bunch of caps.
I use the Sightmark for both pistol and rifle. For pistol, it best to get it to at least 30 yards, 40 is better. Than the most you can be off is the distance between center of optic and bore axis. It's much faster than trying to sight a dot in on a pistol shooting it. For 223 rifle, I use 33 yards, but only as a reference. You still have to check both close and far zero on the rifle, (33 and 300 for my 3 gun set ups).
That was the stage design. Makes it a little tougher. All competitions have stages that require movement and awkward shooting positions. It's not just standing behind a bench.
So range report time. Ran about 150 rounds through it. The red dot was about 1" high at 10 yards where I started so that was easy to get sighted in.
As we have all come to expect from Glocks I had zero malfunctions. Gun ran like a champ and as you wold expect with a storm lake barrel was very accurate. As for case ejections of the 150 probably 140 of them landed in a nice neat pile right next to me on my right side. But about 10 hit me in the chest. None hit the sight that I saw and none hit me in the face. They seemed to come in groups. Like 3 would do it and then a space then 4 more. I dont know what the correlation was but it wasnt as bad as I was expecting. Overall very happy with this pistol.
I also got a Glock 20 from a guy used and took it out for the first time. It has an extended Lone work barrel on it. The lower performance FMJs I was shooting made it seem pretty tame. The larger frame made it seem like it wasnt a whole ton more than the 17. Then I got out the 1500 fps underwood. That made a difference! Sheesh. Thats quite the gun.
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