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Reliability has been a debate on here for some time (and will remain to be)with different handguns. I just wanted to give my take on it or more so what I have observed as of late. After really getting out there and shooting the S*** out of a lot of mine and buddies guns lately I have really not found one the end all pistol that does not have issues (I never thought there was one anyways).
Lately I have been shooting IDPA and practicing quite a bit. I have noticed a few things that kind of debunks some of the BS I see/hear on a daily basis.While this is far from a scientific experiment just a observation so take it FWIW.
1. You would be surprised at how many issues you see at some matches with glocks ( you see them with other guns too, just mentioning this because glocks are thought of to be the holy grail of reliability)
2. No matter the make or model of the gun you should clean/maintain your gun often. I don't care if it's a glock,hk,sig,beretta,1911,s&w,ruger whatever. Maintenance is what keeps the gun chugging a long the best it can. Dirty guns and lack of maintenance contributes to a lot of the issues I have seen in matches,not all but a lot.
3. I have seen matches won in overall accuracy by stock glocks and seen cheap and expensive 1911's run without hiccups. (so there goes the glocks are not accurate and 1911's are not reliable unless expensive bs)
4. You really don't know your gear until you get out and really run it through it's paces. (I remember one guy in particular that kept having issues with a sig p226. He had mentioned to me that he was glad he came out and started shooting because he had that sig laying next to his bed for the last year and he was getting malfunctions every damn mag during the match.) Just imagine if he relied on the gun for self defense. On top of the fact that he never practiced or really shot the thing.
I have ran thousands upon thousands of rounds through my glock 17 and a few thousand already through my ria tactical and none of them have had much of a issue at all. I get frustrated when I hear other people bashing platforms on here with lack of experience and just commenting because they drink the M&P,GLOCK,RUGER whatever koolaid. Any quality firearm should run if you take care of it, mechanical devices are all prone to fail at some point in their life. The best thing to do is to get out there shoot and learn how to deal with it if the problem happens and not think that your gun will never have a failure and never practice clearing failures/malfunctions because when your glock or sig has a double feed and surprises the hell out of you, How are you going to react?
Lately I have been shooting IDPA and practicing quite a bit. I have noticed a few things that kind of debunks some of the BS I see/hear on a daily basis.While this is far from a scientific experiment just a observation so take it FWIW.
1. You would be surprised at how many issues you see at some matches with glocks ( you see them with other guns too, just mentioning this because glocks are thought of to be the holy grail of reliability)
2. No matter the make or model of the gun you should clean/maintain your gun often. I don't care if it's a glock,hk,sig,beretta,1911,s&w,ruger whatever. Maintenance is what keeps the gun chugging a long the best it can. Dirty guns and lack of maintenance contributes to a lot of the issues I have seen in matches,not all but a lot.
3. I have seen matches won in overall accuracy by stock glocks and seen cheap and expensive 1911's run without hiccups. (so there goes the glocks are not accurate and 1911's are not reliable unless expensive bs)
4. You really don't know your gear until you get out and really run it through it's paces. (I remember one guy in particular that kept having issues with a sig p226. He had mentioned to me that he was glad he came out and started shooting because he had that sig laying next to his bed for the last year and he was getting malfunctions every damn mag during the match.) Just imagine if he relied on the gun for self defense. On top of the fact that he never practiced or really shot the thing.
I have ran thousands upon thousands of rounds through my glock 17 and a few thousand already through my ria tactical and none of them have had much of a issue at all. I get frustrated when I hear other people bashing platforms on here with lack of experience and just commenting because they drink the M&P,GLOCK,RUGER whatever koolaid. Any quality firearm should run if you take care of it, mechanical devices are all prone to fail at some point in their life. The best thing to do is to get out there shoot and learn how to deal with it if the problem happens and not think that your gun will never have a failure and never practice clearing failures/malfunctions because when your glock or sig has a double feed and surprises the hell out of you, How are you going to react?
You also so a lot of other pistols as range rentals, It's mostly because they are cheap. Your not getting the point of the thread, I also states that all mechanical objects are prone to failure at some point. Read the entire post before blabbing off. I'm sorry but just shooting square at the range is completely different and is not nearly as good of training as competing in IDPA, clearing a malfunction under time and stress is also completely different. Anyone that argues so is just plain dumb.
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