Springfield Endurance Test Guns
One step closer: the guns are at my local gun shop and now await Maryland’s mandatory waiting period. If all goes according to plan, first…
Category: Range Reports
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Gen4 Glock 17 Endurance Test: Month 16
71,260 rounds 19 stoppages (+1 w/non-LCI extractor) 0 malfunctions 3 parts breakages It’s been a slow month ending with a difficult choice… The Glock suffered one stoppage:…
Gen4 Glock 17 Endurance Test: Month 15
68,266 rounds 18 stoppages (+1 w/non-LCI extractor) 0 malfunctions 3 parts breakages The G17 didn’t get much range time this month and in fact hasn’t been…
Why 1911?
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve received a deluge of emails, forum PMs, phone calls, and smoke signals asking what in the world made…
Gen4 Glock 17 Endurance Test: Month 14
64,592 rounds 16 stoppages (+1 w/non-LCI extractor) 0 malfunctions 2 parts breakages Another month has gone by, and the gun is now just shy of 65,000…
Glock 17 Endurance Test: Month 13
60,207 rounds 12 stoppages (+1 w/non-LCI extractor) 0 malfunctions 1 parts breakages As mentioned previously, pistol-training.com is moving to a monthly format for the Glock 17…
Endurance Test Glock Broke
This is not the update I intended to file, and it’s just a short note as I’ve not yet had an opportunity to take the gun…
Gen4 G17 Endurance Test Status
So it’s been more than two months since I’ve posted an update about the G17. Lots of people are asking, “What’s going on?” The answer…
Gen4 G17 Quasi-Update
I’d hoped to get a comprehensive update on the test gun this week, but between SHOT Show and various projects that stemmed from it as…
Glock 17 gen4 Endurance Test: Week 42
55,221 rounds 9 stoppages (+1 w/non-LCI extractor) 0 malfunctions 1 parts breakages Two short sessions this week were spent primarily working with the laser and getting…