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My wife and I got a chance to do some shooting yesterday with a group of people on private property in the Sherwood area. I had my 3 .357 revolvers, a .38 Special and a little .22 pocket gun. The others mostly had Glock semi automatics in various models, a couple of shotguns and a .22 semi rifle. The owner's son also had a snub noise .357 that he had only shot .38's out of but used some of my .357 ammo to try it in it's native caliber for the first time. When he fired it it was about twice as loud as my .375 revolvers were.
This was the first time I'd had a chance to shoot any of my guns, in fact it was the first time both my wife and I had a chance to shoot in a very long time and it was good to see that we both could still hit targets.
The revolvers did very well during the 5 hours or so we took turns shooting. The 4 Glocks that were being fired did not do as well, which was a surprise to me, considering how popular they are. Every one of them either mis-fed or failed to eject at least once every time they were fired and some several times while shooting out the clip. I didn't get the model names although I know a couple were smaller (I think one was a 42 in .380) and a couple were bigger versions shooting 9mm. They were using several different brands of ammo although the only box I saw was American Eagle.
My wife liked the one that shot the .380 ammo as it weighed almost nothing compared to my revolvers but I pointed out that the problems they were having you don't have with revolvers. You pull the trigger and it shoots. She still liked the size and feel of it though, so we may end up getting something real soon. I don't know if it will be a Glock though as I wasn't to impressed with their dependability.
There was some discussion about the different reasons that could be causing the problems... dirty ammo, dirty guns, picky guns, etc., which is what I've read on the forums as well. It was interesting to me though that they did all have problems with their Glocks though. While they were checking out their Glocks, just kept firing my revolvers.
Mike
This was the first time I'd had a chance to shoot any of my guns, in fact it was the first time both my wife and I had a chance to shoot in a very long time and it was good to see that we both could still hit targets.
The revolvers did very well during the 5 hours or so we took turns shooting. The 4 Glocks that were being fired did not do as well, which was a surprise to me, considering how popular they are. Every one of them either mis-fed or failed to eject at least once every time they were fired and some several times while shooting out the clip. I didn't get the model names although I know a couple were smaller (I think one was a 42 in .380) and a couple were bigger versions shooting 9mm. They were using several different brands of ammo although the only box I saw was American Eagle.
My wife liked the one that shot the .380 ammo as it weighed almost nothing compared to my revolvers but I pointed out that the problems they were having you don't have with revolvers. You pull the trigger and it shoots. She still liked the size and feel of it though, so we may end up getting something real soon. I don't know if it will be a Glock though as I wasn't to impressed with their dependability.
There was some discussion about the different reasons that could be causing the problems... dirty ammo, dirty guns, picky guns, etc., which is what I've read on the forums as well. It was interesting to me though that they did all have problems with their Glocks though. While they were checking out their Glocks, just kept firing my revolvers.
Mike