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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerTactical" data-source="post: 908281" data-attributes="member: 6999"><p>As a die-hard 1911 fan, I can say that there are several reasons why I can recommend Glocks. It doesn't hurt that I'm a Glock armorer and have at least a little inside knowledge as to how and why things are regarding Glocks.</p><p></p><p>The 1911 is a great design (and one which is not going anytime soon) built at a time when it was completely revolutionary by a genius of gun designer, John Moses Browning. While it was his design, he certainly designed it for a customer and a set of requirements set forth by a military for combat effectiveness. Fast forward +70 years, and you will find Gaston Glock in the exact situation, except Gaston was not a firearms designer.</p><p></p><p>The 1911 is a fantastic platform which requires a lot of human processes because of 1) the time and manufacturing process available and 2) because of the composition of the parts. The Glock is able to capitalize on modern manufacturing processes and materials which were not available to Browning.</p><p></p><p><img src="/images/smilies/new/sorry1.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sorry1:" title="Sorry1 :sorry1:" data-shortname=":sorry1:" /></p><p></p><p>*** Spoiler - For the Church of the 1911, what follows may be considered sacrilegious. You have been warned! ***</p><p></p><p>They also go bang every time and they are all McDonald's identical to one another. They are incredibly safe, boringly reliable, and upgrades/components/etc are available everywhere except for Wal-Mart so you can your Glock your own.</p><p></p><p>Simply put, the Glock revolutionized handgun design and took Brownings ideals and went one step further. For the vast majority of folks, I would recommend the Glock because of the extreme tight adherence to Gaston's principles and mechanical tolerances, meaning very little variability in the product, parts, form, function, etc. I would even go so far as to say that if Browning were designing a new handgun, he would have most likely put many of the innovations in that Glock did with a much smoother trigger.</p><p></p><p>I do have to say that I will never be without my 1911 (my Colt Model 70 which was sent back to Colt's custom shop and reworked, polished, etc) or my Steyr M9A1. The 1911 is an absolutely amazing piece of mechanical engineering and aesthetic art. I chose the Steyr because some of Glock's engineers wanted to improve on Gaston's designs, but Gaston would not allow them to implement, so they went to Steyr Mannlicher to produce what I call Glock 2.0. Can I just tell you that the trigger on my Steyr is almost as good as a nice single action trigger instead of the revolver-like mush Glock calls a trigger? <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerTactical, post: 908281, member: 6999"] As a die-hard 1911 fan, I can say that there are several reasons why I can recommend Glocks. It doesn't hurt that I'm a Glock armorer and have at least a little inside knowledge as to how and why things are regarding Glocks. The 1911 is a great design (and one which is not going anytime soon) built at a time when it was completely revolutionary by a genius of gun designer, John Moses Browning. While it was his design, he certainly designed it for a customer and a set of requirements set forth by a military for combat effectiveness. Fast forward +70 years, and you will find Gaston Glock in the exact situation, except Gaston was not a firearms designer. The 1911 is a fantastic platform which requires a lot of human processes because of 1) the time and manufacturing process available and 2) because of the composition of the parts. The Glock is able to capitalize on modern manufacturing processes and materials which were not available to Browning. :sorry1: *** Spoiler - For the Church of the 1911, what follows may be considered sacrilegious. You have been warned! *** They also go bang every time and they are all McDonald's identical to one another. They are incredibly safe, boringly reliable, and upgrades/components/etc are available everywhere except for Wal-Mart so you can your Glock your own. Simply put, the Glock revolutionized handgun design and took Brownings ideals and went one step further. For the vast majority of folks, I would recommend the Glock because of the extreme tight adherence to Gaston's principles and mechanical tolerances, meaning very little variability in the product, parts, form, function, etc. I would even go so far as to say that if Browning were designing a new handgun, he would have most likely put many of the innovations in that Glock did with a much smoother trigger. I do have to say that I will never be without my 1911 (my Colt Model 70 which was sent back to Colt's custom shop and reworked, polished, etc) or my Steyr M9A1. The 1911 is an absolutely amazing piece of mechanical engineering and aesthetic art. I chose the Steyr because some of Glock's engineers wanted to improve on Gaston's designs, but Gaston would not allow them to implement, so they went to Steyr Mannlicher to produce what I call Glock 2.0. Can I just tell you that the trigger on my Steyr is almost as good as a nice single action trigger instead of the revolver-like mush Glock calls a trigger? :) [/QUOTE]
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