Ka BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, Read & Weep

[onehousecat]

I'm not really a Glock fanboy. My ratio of 1911s to Glocks is about 4/1. My ratio of other autos to Glocks is also about 2/1. (I have a G17, G20, and a G21.) The only real complaint I have about Glocks is the atrocious trigger pull. I have pretty much gotten over that with practice. Glocks are really reliable. If the ammo is in spec, and the right caliber, the Glock will handle it. In a life or death situation, I sure as hell would not worry about the pistol blowing up. I would be much more concerned about the competency or the luck of the opponent trumping mine.

One thing about the kabooms is that the ones I have heard of (apocryphal or not) is that most of them involved 40s. A number of people have told me that a 40 will do anything a 10mm will. When politely requested to accompany me to the range with my chronograph to prove this assertion, guess how many accepted? None.

[jmort]

"A number of people have told me that a 40 will do anything a 10mm will."

They are as crazy as the people who compare a 10mm to a .41 mag.

[MtGun44]

EARLY 10mm Norma ammo was very close to .41 mag ammo, but that is LONG gone
and current factory 10mm is way down.

Bill

[whisler]

We had a newspaper article about a local police force that had a Glock Kaboom on their range...in 45ACP. This was with factory ammo the article stated. The chief said he had never heard of any problem with Glocks until then (obviously not a gun guy) and that, after research, they had decided to trade all the Glocks for Sigs

[travelr]

I don't think quality had anything to do with the Glock coming apart! However, I thought it was common knowledge that polygonal
rifling isn't kind to lead bullets. Not to mention that match quality Glock barrels with standard rifling are around $100/plus frt and
may need to spend some money at your friendly gunsmith's shop for fitting.