Instructor Mistook My XD for a Glock - Blasphemy! - XDTalk Forums - Your HS2000/SA-XD Information Source!

spade · 07-27-2005, 01:27 PM

Don't call my XD a Glock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I was at the local range last week, happily target shooting when this pistol instructor was passing by and observed what he thought could be an improvement to my shooting grip. He asks if he can handle my gun, so I clear my XD40 and hand it over.

"Oh a Glock! It's a good gun." I said "Er, it's not a Glock. It's a Springfield XD." I don't think he heard me, because he then said, "You know my wife just bought a Glock in .45 a few weeks ago."

Anyways, he proceeded to give me useless advice and left. Sometimes I get tired of the XD seemingly playing second fiddle to the Glocks. (rant)

Especially coming from a pistol instructor, he should know better about Glocks-since his wife owns one.

What are your mistaken identity stories?

ajamesp51 · 07-27-2005, 01:51 PM

Up till this year at all of the local pistol compititions I kept called a glock shooter. Or even better I would wear a team springfield shirt and got asked why a springfield shirt if you shooting a Glock. Now it seems like more and more xd`s are showing up and now it oh you got an xd too.....Uh no I have been shooting HS`s and XD for 4 yrs now I was ahead of the game.

manygunner · 07-27-2005, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spade

Don't call my XD a Glock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I was at the local range last week, happily target shooting when this pistol instructor was passing by and observed what he thought could be an improvement to my shooting grip. He asks if he can handle my gun, so I clear my XD40 and hand it over.

"Oh a Glock! It's a good gun." I said "Er, it's not a Glock. It's a Springfield XD." I don't think he heard me, because he then said, "You know my wife just bought a Glock in .45 a few weeks ago."

Anyways, he proceeded to give me useless advice and left. Sometimes I get tired of the XD seemingly playing second fiddle to the Glocks. (rant)

Especially coming from a pistol instructor, he should know better about Glocks-since his wife owns one.

What are your mistaken identity stories?

I know what you mean. Mine has been mistaken for a BLOCK (read Glock) quite often. I just read in "Guns And Weapons For Law Enforcement" that Glock had 80%+ of the market share in handguns at least in the LEO field. But I agree the guy could should have had his ears open. Mmakes you wonder if he was really paying attention to stuff or just lost in his I am an instructor ego trip. I would have told the guy off if he was giving useless advice, then again I have had enough training to get away with it. Was he just an NRA instructor or someone who actualy knew what he was doing?

bd · 07-27-2005, 02:15 PM

Just tell 'em Glock finally figured it out.

bd

spade · 07-27-2005, 02:20 PM

I think he was an NRA instructor. I've seen him around before, but I didn't know he was an instructor.

I suppose if I had a bi-tone XD, or maybe OD green, somebody would think twice before assuming it was a Glock.

therooster · 07-27-2005, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by spade

or maybe OD green, somebody would think twice before assuming it was a Glock.

nope... i have an OD green and people still think its a glock... sigh

ajamesp51 · 07-27-2005, 09:36 PM

Glocks come in od green too.

kgpcr · 07-27-2005, 09:48 PM

Tell him to get on the stick. tell him you dont shoot a block. no i mean a glock. let him shoot it and see what a real handgun should shoot like. no more Glocks for me..... now its all XD's for me. i do own a 1911 by springfield as well and love that. i just wish the XD's were made in .
45acp instead of the gap crap

mulder · 07-27-2005, 11:51 PM

I let people shoot my HS and they look at it and still call it a glock. One bloke had a good long look at it and shot several mags through it. He then said it had a long trigger pull for a Glock. I said it wasnt a Glock but a HS. He gave me a strange look and said" Well I'll be buggered, I thought it was a glock! Whats a HS?"
Get use to it it will happen all the time.
mulder

aiformula · 07-28-2005, 07:42 AM

Get this...

A guy who shoots an XD saw me shooting my Canyon Creek XD w/ the fusion finish on it and asked me how I liked shooting my 1911. Uhhhhhhhh...

07-27-2005, 01:27 PM	#1
spade XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Pacific NW Posts: 100	Instructor Mistook My XD for a Glock - Blasphemy! Don't call my XD a Glock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I was at the local range last week, happily target shooting when this pistol instructor was passing by and observed what he thought could be an improvement to my shooting grip. He asks if he can handle my gun, so I clear my XD40 and hand it over. "Oh a Glock! It's a good gun." I said "Er, it's not a Glock. It's a Springfield XD." I don't think he heard me, because he then said, "You know my wife just bought a Glock in .45 a few weeks ago." Anyways, he proceeded to give me useless advice and left. Sometimes I get tired of the XD seemingly playing second fiddle to the Glocks. (rant) Especially coming from a pistol instructor, he should know better about Glocks-since his wife owns one. What are your mistaken identity stories? __________________ Springfield XD40 Benelli Nova Remington Wingmaster

07-27-2005, 01:51 PM	#2
ajamesp51 XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Birmingham, Al Posts: 5,026	Up till this year at all of the local pistol compititions I kept called a glock shooter. Or even better I would wear a team springfield shirt and got asked why a springfield shirt if you shooting a Glock. Now it seems like more and more xd`s are showing up and now it oh you got an xd too.....Uh no I have been shooting HS`s and XD for 4 yrs now I was ahead of the game. __________________ "God shall not have his word made manifest by cowards" RWE www.xd-hs2000.com

07-27-2005, 02:20 PM	#5
spade XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Pacific NW Posts: 100	I think he was an NRA instructor. I've seen him around before, but I didn't know he was an instructor. I suppose if I had a bi-tone XD, or maybe OD green, somebody would think twice before assuming it was a Glock. __________________ Springfield XD40 Benelli Nova Remington Wingmaster

07-27-2005, 09:36 PM	#7
ajamesp51 XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Birmingham, Al Posts: 5,026	Glocks come in od green too. __________________ "God shall not have his word made manifest by cowards" RWE www.xd-hs2000.com

07-27-2005, 09:48 PM	#8
kgpcr XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 267	Tell him to get on the stick. tell him you dont shoot a block. no i mean a glock. let him shoot it and see what a real handgun should shoot like. no more Glocks for me..... now its all XD's for me. i do own a 1911 by springfield as well and love that. i just wish the XD's were made in . 45acp instead of the gap crap __________________ XD9 service XD40 tactical XD40 service XD45 Service Colt Anaconda Colt King Cobra OLY AR-15 SigPro 2340 Springfield Armory 1911 double stack Taurus .357 Snubie Smith and Wesson M&P .40

07-27-2005, 02:15 PM	#4
bd XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Western North Carolina Posts: 3,864	Just tell 'em Glock finally figured it out. bd

07-27-2005, 11:51 PM	#9
mulder XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Land Down Under Posts: 342	I let people shoot my HS and they look at it and still call it a glock. One bloke had a good long look at it and shot several mags through it. He then said it had a long trigger pull for a Glock. I said it wasnt a Glock but a HS. He gave me a strange look and said" Well I'll be buggered, I thought it was a glock! Whats a HS?" Get use to it it will happen all the time. mulder __________________ My head is like a padded cell...with ears!

07-28-2005, 07:42 AM	#10
aiformula XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sw ohio Posts: 3,149	Get this... A guy who shoots an XD saw me shooting my Canyon Creek XD w/ the fusion finish on it and asked me how I liked shooting my 1911. Uhhhhhhhh... __________________ Tony The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him. - Mark Twain

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