Gen4 Glock 19 Reliability

[Mike1956]

I took a three-day pistol course this past weekend at Defensive Tactical Institute near West Union, Ohio. A great experience, but more about that later. I decided to run the entire weekend with my ever-so-slightly tweeked Gen4 Glock19. It has a cleaned up trigger pull, Ghost connector, and Trijicons front and rear. It has been equipped with the Glock-provided replacement RSA. I no longer run it with a Crimson Trace because left-handed carry doesn't work well with it. The gun had about six thousand trouble-free rounds through it prior to the class.

During each day of the class, I fired between 400 and 600 rounds. I fired as few as one round per exercise segment to as many as sixty. Each night, I did a field-strip cleaning on it. I fired from a variety of stances, angles and distances. I experienced exactly zero malfunctions over the entire weekend. I enjoyed a perfectly flawless performance from a gun I had already come to have complete, unqualified confidence in.

As an aside, never reholster into an IWB after you have run three quick mags through your hi-cap gun. It gets warm.

[DefensiveCarry.com]

[Mr B]

I also have a Gen 4 Glock 19. I bought it about three months ago and I really like it, I have added a 3.5 lb connector and a competition spring kit. I only have about 200 rounds through it, but I really like how smooth it shoots.

[ghost tracker]

Defense Tactical Institute near West Union, Ohio? Did you meet Dave Bowie, did ya', huh did ya'?!? D.B. is so cool that Gaston Glock has a Bowie Tactical tattoo. BTY, glad to hear that a G19 is (yawn) reliable. What a complete surprise.

I hope you realize I'm just funnin' ya'. I've got a Gen3 G19 tuned about like yours & it would be the last handgun I would ever let go! GLOCKS ROCK!

[ming]

I disliked Glocks for years. Then I started shooting my buddy's G17 on range trips. Now I just got a Gen 4 G19 to complement the Gen 3 G17 I bought a year ago. They may not be much to look at, but they are one heck of a handgun.