Saw a Glock fall apart . . .

[ichy_trigger]

Originally Posted by englandcrown

I'm surprised they let him shoot anymore. In my experience if you drop your gun at all, you are DQ'd for the rest of the match.

The gun is the grip frame.

[jamstutz]

I've seen Glocks inadvertantly come apart before, but in every case I've seen (naturally I haven't seen all of them) the cause was improper reassembly of the frame/receiver after the user had detail stripped it. (A careful examination of the frame showed that the slide lock had been inserted backwards.) I don't have any idea if this was actually the case here, but that would be my first guess.

[WyoXD]

Originally Posted by jamstutz

I've seen Glocks inadvertantly come apart before, but in every case I've seen (naturally I haven't seen all of them) the cause was improper reassembly of the frame/receiver after the user had detail stripped it. (A careful examination of the frame showed that the slide lock had been inserted backwards.) I don't have any idea if this was actually the case here, but that would be my first guess.

I kinda suspected something like this, but I am not familiar with Glocks enough to know. I do know this was at the end of stage 4 of 5 where we had already sent around 100 rounds downrange for the day--don't know how long it would take for such a problem to show up.

[boricua9mm]

[chupacabrachus]

Originally Posted by propellerhead

I don't think that's the case in the club that I shoot with. There's a little bit of everything. My thinking is the 1911s and Glocks are the most modified ones out there.

Agreed. Where i used to shoot I'd see by far more failures with glocks and 1911s (especially 1911s) than any other platform and we had a very diverse range of firearms: several XD's, berettas, sigs, CZ, etc with the majority being glocks, XD's, and S/W M&Ps. 1911's and Glocks did not outnumber any other certain brand.... they just erred a lot more.