I'm not drinking any Kool Aid,just based on 21 years of carrying and shooting Glocks,all calibers at one time or another.I've still got my 19 I bought in 1990,it has had 1000's of rounds through it with out even a hick up.I teach Cleet Phase 4 at Center of Professional Studies,we have 5 G-19's that have over 50K through each of them and the only thing we have ever had to do is replace the trigger reset spring occasionally.Never had a k-boom.No Kool Aid here just real experience,not internet pictures. Steve
I don't doubt it a bit, the G19 is an excellent platform. My whole point about Eric's Wilson was to show that someone could put 90K rounds through a 1911 platform in a relatively short amount of time and it will do just fine. The military had documented over 250K through some frames. Several platforms could go 50K rounds these days, Beretta, XD, S&W, H&K, Sig, CZ etc. So I guess I just never understood all the retared cliches and exaggerated anecdotes you always see on the net on either side in defense of internet lore, especially when history of service and actual tests done by military and gov agencies show different.
Speaking from actual experience, my G22 started having problems when I started putting a light on it, my G/Fs G30SF has been great so far but it DOES have the wear on the trigger bar you see plastered all over Glocktalk, so I'm keeping an eye on it. I does bother me that I'm shooting a .45 that is wearing a groove in the trigger bar. Hopefully, an "upgrade" will come soon. I have never had a problem with any other of the several glocks I have owned over the years. On the flipside I've owned and still own several 1911s and the only ones I had problems with were both STIs.