Over the last few weeks, I've been doing research on my next purchase, a Glock 19. For a number of reasons, I've decided to give it an opportunity to be my CCW gun. When I took to the internet to do my homework, I was confronted with a ton of bad press on the new 4th gens. Most were stove pipes, FTF and erratic ejection patterns.
My personal opinion on anything that I read on the internet is that, for every one post about something not working, there are 1,000 happy people, who aren't taking to the forums to report their experiences. Then I stumbled onto the Glock voluntary recall on RSAs. It turns out that they put a .40 RSA (stamped 0-3) into the first batches of Gen 4 G19s. Also people were reporting that the extractor might be to blame for their problems, as Glock now uses MiM extractors.
Despite all of this, my local store told me that if I wanted to shoot it after I bought it, and it didn't preform correctly, they would take it back inside of 60 days. So I bought one.
Mine was built and test fired in mid February 2012 at the Glock factory, and it has the updated recoil spring assembly stamped 0-4-3. It came with 3 15 round magazines, multiple different sized back-straps and (the selling point for me) the ability to flip the magazine release button to the right side of the firearm (lefty).
So I went to the range, loaded all 3 mags with Winchester 115gr target load (what people said that they were having issues with) and let them fly. The recoil was much tamer than a previous Glock I had owned,and it fed everything without issue. Same for the next 100+ rounds I shot after that, and the 147gr PDX1s I carry also had no issues. It grouped very well and the mags dropped cleanly.
As a lefty, I had no brass hit me in the face. I was doing some moving and shooting, so I can't comment on the ejection pattern, but if it isn't hitting me, I don't care where it actually rolls to a stop.
Looks like Glock worked through the early kinks. Buy with confidence guys.
My personal opinion on anything that I read on the internet is that, for every one post about something not working, there are 1,000 happy people, who aren't taking to the forums to report their experiences. Then I stumbled onto the Glock voluntary recall on RSAs. It turns out that they put a .40 RSA (stamped 0-3) into the first batches of Gen 4 G19s. Also people were reporting that the extractor might be to blame for their problems, as Glock now uses MiM extractors.
Despite all of this, my local store told me that if I wanted to shoot it after I bought it, and it didn't preform correctly, they would take it back inside of 60 days. So I bought one.
Mine was built and test fired in mid February 2012 at the Glock factory, and it has the updated recoil spring assembly stamped 0-4-3. It came with 3 15 round magazines, multiple different sized back-straps and (the selling point for me) the ability to flip the magazine release button to the right side of the firearm (lefty).
So I went to the range, loaded all 3 mags with Winchester 115gr target load (what people said that they were having issues with) and let them fly. The recoil was much tamer than a previous Glock I had owned,and it fed everything without issue. Same for the next 100+ rounds I shot after that, and the 147gr PDX1s I carry also had no issues. It grouped very well and the mags dropped cleanly.
As a lefty, I had no brass hit me in the face. I was doing some moving and shooting, so I can't comment on the ejection pattern, but if it isn't hitting me, I don't care where it actually rolls to a stop.
Looks like Glock worked through the early kinks. Buy with confidence guys.
