Graybeard Outdoors

Your freind doc is now a certified Glock armorer. I had the chance to go tho the school, all one day of it , for free, at no cost to me because of a program tht GLOCK has for it's stocking dealers. There was a seat, and no one to fill it, so there i went.

I will admit that i admire anything as simple as a GLOCK handgun. Admire and switching over from a 1911 are two different things, just to keep the record straight. I can see how the GLOCK is the perfect pistol for "non gun gun people"; police, game wardens, people who really don't "like" guns, they are just part of the job. I never will for get a man describing a certain brand of handgun as "accurate". Personal experience, as well as everything i have ever read told me that the darn things were ; a) very inaccurate, grouping more than four inches at twenty five yards, b) unreliable, jamming on most anything they were fed, and c) ugly as sin.

Another time i took a detective special to a "gunsmith", and asked him if he could regulate the front sight so it would be somewhere near "on" with the ubiquitous 158 swchp +p "FBI" load. The front sight needed a little added to it, and it needed to be brought over a tad to get it right. it shot great at 15 feet, just not a 25 yards. I would group very well at twenty five yards, just not where i wanted the bullets to go. Mr gunsmith proceded to serate the front sight, because the problem was i was not able to see the sight well enough. He even had the gall to shoot a group for me, and say "see? YOu just couldn't see that front sight well enough. " Well, the group he shot looked about as good As I had ever done at twenty five yards, and was well centered, so I thanked him, and went into the range with a box of the aformentioned cartridges to give her a whirl. Nothing had changed. I confronted the "gunsmith" and he said "Well, that is a belly gun, you probably would never even use the sights anyway." If that poor rascal knew how many critters had met their demise on the farm by way of that little Colt, he wouldn't have believed it.It is all a matter of perception.

I have been guilty of it , too. I used to think all semiautos were ammo sensitive, inaccurate, and hard to use cast bullets in. Boy was i ever wrong. I got to hanging out down at the bulls eye range, and My eyes were opened. Same thing with fixed sights. I used to be against them. Now that I am older and smarter, I can apreciate a " fix it and forget it " sighting system. I am a lot more apt to find a load that fills a certain role, and not depart from it.

I still hate chasing brass everywhere, and I don't want to get rid of all my Smith and Wesson revolvers, but a good gub'ment model, in about any calibre, is probably what i will carry from now on.