Do you remember the poll that asked about what you felt like was the most reliable handgun right out of the box? The poll that asked that if you had to pick a gun off a shelf at a shop and count on it to work, which would it be? Without dredging that poll up, I have to believe that Glock was voted among, if not the, most likely to be totally reliable out of the box.
Fast forward to today, I bought another G23 from H&H this afternoon. It's a factory new, bone stock, third generation Glock 23. I decided to put a quick 100 rounds through it while I was there, so I bought a couple of boxes of Winchester White Box in a 180gr FMJ flavor and headed to my assigned lane. During the very first magazine fired, at approximately the four or five round mark, I experienced a double feed. The gun was brand new, I was shooting ammo of questionable quality, and I had not bothered to clean it. My confidence in the gun is not in question and I'm not the least bit worried about it. I actually giggled and remembered that poll as I cleared the malfunction and kept firing. In one hundred rounds fired, that was the only malfunction. Granted, in around 6,000 rounds through my G22, it has never failed to function. Still, malfunctions do happen and I kept stacking the deck towards a malfunction by shooting cheap ammo through a pistol that had never been cleaned, much less broken in. I will clean it thoroughly tonight and after every other time I shoot it, and I expect that it will go thousands of rounds before the next failure.
I just thought it was funny that everyone's favorite pistol for reliability did not, in fact, work right out of the box.
For the record, I voted Beretta 92FS/M9 in the poll.
Rob
Fast forward to today, I bought another G23 from H&H this afternoon. It's a factory new, bone stock, third generation Glock 23. I decided to put a quick 100 rounds through it while I was there, so I bought a couple of boxes of Winchester White Box in a 180gr FMJ flavor and headed to my assigned lane. During the very first magazine fired, at approximately the four or five round mark, I experienced a double feed. The gun was brand new, I was shooting ammo of questionable quality, and I had not bothered to clean it. My confidence in the gun is not in question and I'm not the least bit worried about it. I actually giggled and remembered that poll as I cleared the malfunction and kept firing. In one hundred rounds fired, that was the only malfunction. Granted, in around 6,000 rounds through my G22, it has never failed to function. Still, malfunctions do happen and I kept stacking the deck towards a malfunction by shooting cheap ammo through a pistol that had never been cleaned, much less broken in. I will clean it thoroughly tonight and after every other time I shoot it, and I expect that it will go thousands of rounds before the next failure.
I just thought it was funny that everyone's favorite pistol for reliability did not, in fact, work right out of the box.
For the record, I voted Beretta 92FS/M9 in the poll.
Rob
