[Eric]

The folks at Lone Wolf Distributors have gone to a lot of trouble to create an absolutely beautiful and extremely detailed animation of a Glock pistol firing and cycling a new round. Whether you are familiar with the workings of a Glock action or not, I think you will enjoy the video. The video is high resolution, so it will look great full-screen. You can maximize it by clicking on the symbol in the lower-right of the embedded video below (The icon looks like the 4 corners of a picture frame. You can only see it while the video is running and your cursor is over the running video) once you have started watching it, to make it full-screen.

The guys at Lone Wolf Distributors tell me that this is their first 3D technical simulation in a new How It Works series, “The Firing Cycle explained for Glock”. This will be a great addition to their popular “How To” series of animations.

I am going to sticky this in both the General Glocking and Okie Corral forums, so the maximum number of people get a chance to see it.

Edited on 3-07-17, To Add: The video link has been updated. The new video version shows the pistol cycling several times, at the end of the video. It gives a better sense of what is happening realtime, when the pistol fires. Great video guys. Thanks again. Eric

 

[oldman11]

Thanks for the post. That is the best animation of the Glock workings I have seen. Enjoyed it a lot.

 

[G19Tony]

Very nice. Didn't someone post a video a few years back of a Glock firing cycle. No voice, just the cycling?

 

[Sigobsessed]

Cool vid! Thanks for posting!

 

[PattonWasRight]

Yeah, anyone will learn from that by seeing it in motion, narrated

 

[Pope-onna-Rope]

OK, that was/is coolio. Thanks.
Even though I knew most of the how and why, the vid certainly details the action.
Well done, well done.
One of the workings I had not thought about is the 'drop safety' , wasn't sure how it interacted with the other parts.

 

[Pope-onna-Rope]

Very nice. Didn't someone post a video a few years back of a Glock firing cycle. No voice, just the cycling?

Some years back, a group put on an interactive vid of a (generic) semi-auto that you could make the parts visible or add or take away pieces of it as it worked to study the interactions of the various parts.
The same folks were going to do same for an AR-15 style weapon, not sure if it ever got up, if so, I missed it.
I think it was linked on this site, at one time.
It wasn't perfect, but was cool as Hades anyway.

 

[LWD Armorer]

Thanks guys! A lot of work went into the video... More to come!

 

[Truth&Balance]

Well done and thanks!

 

[Mike-M]

It's the best illustration of the Glock mechanism that has been published.

However, the explanation that continues after minute 6:30 is completely true ONLY if the shooter (untypically!) has managed to release the trigger before the slide has traveled forward past the point where the firing pin lug is engaged by the trigger bar cruciform "kick up". ONLY under that circumstance will the trigger bar move forward as the slide moves forward in the manner shown in the video.

More typically, the slide completes movement into battery while the shooter is STILL holding the trigger and trigger bar to the rear. I would have liked to see the video show what then happens as the shooter relaxes his hold on the trigger and allows the firing pin spring/firing pin lug to move the trigger bar forward. Had that sequence been illustrated, that other very important characteristic of the Glock trigger could have been shown...the "reset" of the trigger as the trigger bar "bird's head" moves forward and clears the sloping lip on the connector, with the distinctive click that occurs as the connector body then springs to the right and slaps the left side of the trigger bar.

That's just a suggestion. But it's great work on the overall presentation. Also, I'd have chosen a digital female voice with a Swedish accent!

 

[Mike-M]

One final suggestion...build in an explanation of the function of the coil trigger spring. It is a very common misunderstanding that the coil TS is a trigger reset spring. In fact it acts like an ANTI-reset spring, exerting its force against trigger reset. Many do not understand that the only trigger reset spring in a Glock is the firing pin spring.

 

[80 deuce]

With this excellent, well done video, there should be no question that a pistol with no external safety is safe! It's always the operator's ignorant fault that tragedies happen. 3 different safety's.

 

[Zulu19]

Great visual aid!!

 

[bac1023]

Looks great!

Thanks for posting.

 

[LWD Armorer]

With this excellent, well done video, there should be no question that a pistol with no external safety is safe! It's always the operator's ignorant fault that tragedies happen. 3 different safety's.

Not to pick at your quote but the trigger safety (safety on the trigger) is the external safety on the gun. The glock does have one.

 

[trigger19isbest]

Me likey the animation! Very, very good!

 

[Drilled]

Glock Simple!

 

[oldengineer]

Great video by a great company!! I use a LW 9mm barrel in my G22 Gen 4 and it shoots beautifully.

 

[Grizzles]

Simply amazing video. Really helps with spatial orientation in the gun

 

[LWD Armorer]

It's the best illustration of the Glock mechanism that has been published.

However, the explanation that continues after minute 6:30 is completely true ONLY if the shooter (untypically!) has managed to release the trigger before the slide has traveled forward past the point where the firing pin lug is engaged by the trigger bar cruciform "kick up". ONLY under that circumstance will the trigger bar move forward as the slide moves forward in the manner shown in the video.

More typically, the slide completes movement into battery while the shooter is STILL holding the trigger and trigger bar to the rear. I would have liked to see the video show what then happens as the shooter relaxes his hold on the trigger and allows the firing pin spring/firing pin lug to move the trigger bar forward. Had that sequence been illustrated, that other very important characteristic of the Glock trigger could have been shown...the "reset" of the trigger as the trigger bar "bird's head" moves forward and clears the sloping lip on the connector, with the distinctive click that occurs as the connector body then springs to the right and slaps the left side of the trigger bar.

That's just a suggestion. But it's great work on the overall presentation. Also, I'd have chosen a digital female voice with a Swedish accent!

Mike-M,
Thank you for the suggestion. This video explains the firing cycle function from the design point of view.

Based on the delay of my response you can tell it was carefully considered. As more videos are produced, I am sure we will target “trigger finger/trigger reset”.



As for your second post.
Agreed. A simple way of proving this is to remove the trigger spring out of the lower. Keep pressure (rearward) on the trigger while cycling the slide…….. Trigger reset. If you do not keep pressure on the trigger while cycling the slide the trigger will NOT reset. Another reason why Glocks are so good. You can remove parts and the gun still functions. Of course, not recommended.