So, Battlefield Las Vegas, where you can rent just about anything and shoot it to your credit card limit has posted their experiences with handgun reliability. They chew through nearly 200,000 pistol calibers rounds PER MONTH. Read that again, if you have no feinted. 200,000 rounds, per month.
Which handgun is consistently their most reliable and trouble-free handgun? Glock.
Specifically, the Glock 17
[i]I can tell you that even though I am not a “Glock guy”, it is the most reliable handgun in our inventory and I would trust it with my life. We use Gen1-Gen4 17’s on the line and they are the most hassle-free handgun we have. I used my original Gen1 17 when we first opened two and a half years ago and it finally broke about six months ago. -
Having said this, his comments about HK are simply idiotic. But heh, it’s his business and I’m sure 80% of the people that come through his store are too stupid or drunk to know the difference anyway.
‘A customer had a KB with an S&W500. So we put him on an M134A before he left’. I suspect it’s impossible to leave a place mad after firing a minigun, even if it’s preceded by something like that.
I read the thread on the other forum. While Glocks are the most reliable guns they use, you have to remember that there’s many handguns that they do not keep in stock at the range.
I specifically remember him commenting about why he refuses to have any HK’s. It was something about their stance on LEO and civilian sales. I don’t remember the details of it, but that’s besides the point.
It’s good to hear that the Glocks are performing as they are, but it’s too bad we can’t see the results of other manufacture handguns under the same conditions.
You may have a point my friend.
One could read the article, if we can call it an article, as to say that glocks, while they may not break often, when they do the gun is pretty much going to go down in a very bad way that is not going to be field repairable.
“Glock’s pretty much are the only handgun that suffer a “catastrophic” break.” As mentioned in the article.
Sig 226s and Beretta 92s the issues that they mention are both that I would argue come down to wear parts that should be replaced on a regular basis. Recoil springs, locking blocks, ect.
If anything, what we should all be taking from this article is that Glocks, Beretta, and Sig handguns are likely going to run more reliably than most of us need and run much longer than 98% of shooters will run their guns through. I mean how many shooters out there will run 10k through a handgun in 10 years? So why don’t we stopping the meaningless dick measuring bullshit and learn to more effectively use the mother****er opposed to going “my gun is better than yours” since whatever minutia of performance increase you might be able to argue you can’t utilize anyway because your skill level is shit.
As far as H&K goes I would kindly offer the owner of Battlefield LV speak with H&K CS in this day and age since his impressions seem to be circa 1990. At least in my experience. I have personally witnessed H&K go above and beyond in servicing customers guns, when they could have refused such service because the owner admitted to doing things that would of, and indeed likely should have voided the warranty, and instead replaced the guns no questions asked.
Anyway, that is my contribution for the night. I am going to have another drink and go do something constructive.
Every time I have to call HK I know that I am in for a stellar interaction. No kidding, they have an excellent CS department. HK must have kicked a lot of peoples’ dogs in the 1990s.
I don’t own a Glock; I don’t hate them, I just have other handguns that suit me better.
I notice that most so-called “Glock Haters”, at least all the ones I’ve spoken to, don’t have any gripes or doubts about the gun’s reliability or lifespan. It’s usually just the features that don’t fit the person; whether it’s grip angle, trigger etc.
Hard to take the guy and his reporting seriously after his comments about H&K. As pointed out above, his comments might of has the ring of truth if “Home Improvement” was the hot new must see TV.
