New Gen4 Glock 17 review

Olive or "Ludus" (Costa joke) drab Gen 4 17.  0-4-2 RSA (recoil spring adaptor).  Self installed Trijicon HD sights with orange outline front.  New 30274 ejector.   Note:  the new 30274 ejector for Gen4 9mm Glocks works great in Gen 2 and Gen 3 9mm Glocks.  Simply yank it out from the Gen 4 housing using pliers with the jaws padded with cloth and firmly insert into your Gen 3 housing.  

  POI  (Point of Impact)at 7 yards is using the tip of the front sight to bisect the target.  POI at 25 yards uses a "drive the dot" hold.  Weapon is very accurate, noticeably more so than my Gen2 Glock 19 and Gen3 19.  Once I got to know the POA/POI and trigger of the pistol (polished stock), I put up roughly quarter sized Shoot & See dots at 7 yards, dinged 6 in a row and then moved back to 25 yards to put 5 rounds into a 3x5 card unsupported.  Then I called it good on the accuracy of the pistol.   

  So far, I've ran roughly 400 rounds of Wolf steel cased and Winchester Ranger 124gr brass range ammo through the pistol with no malfunctions.  Wolf ran great!  Oddly, enough the Winchester stuff gave me classic Glock Gen4 BTF (brass to face)) vertical ejection.   I've ran into this twice before with Gen4s and was one of the first to trumpet my problems with them on the internet so I knew what to do after checking to make sure that the extractor slipped in and out of the slide smoothly.  I ordered the White Sound HRED upgraded depressor spring assembly and the APEX extractor immediately as I don't want to be told "just don't run range ammo through it" as a "fix" from Glock corporate.  The White Sound HRED arrived in time for the match; no problems were noticed during the match which I had to leave early from halfway through.  The extractor should be here tomorrow.  It's bothersome about a new Gen4 with the latest parts and still exhibiting problems that first occurred in 2010…...  Quite frankly, Glock has not handled this well and still hasn't fixed the problem.

  I have Dark Star Gear AIWB (Appendix Inside Waist Band) and OWB (Outside Waist Band) holsters for it.  Both work quite well.  Once I get some more rounds through it and trust it, I'l start carrying it AIWB.  I used to think most OWB holsters were the same but I noticed during the Sunday USPSA match (don't ask how I did :) that the DSG OWB holster is the best OWB holster I've ever seen for gripping tightly to your hip.  

Family land and where's my free Leatherman?!

  Leatherman company visits my uncle's cattle ranch in Wyoming.  We've had that land in the family for over one hundred years.   They don't mention it but my uncle is also a World Champion Steer Wrestler or "bull dogger."  Either "steer wrestling" or bull dogging" can be used but the origin of the term "bull dogging" is very interesting.  America has a long history of African American cowboys with folks like Fred Whitfield continuing the long, proud tradition as a professional rodeo cowboy.

  Looks like Cousin Les is using a Leatherman Wave.

Gun forum and industry drama for the day

  If you're feeling the itch for some good ol' fashioned gun industry drama, head on over to SnipersHide and read this thread.  Basically, a guy bought a tacticalrifles.net rifle and put it away in his safe after having to replace a part on it when he received it and it didn't shoot well for him.  It sat in his safe for a while and then he got the long range itch again.  Didn't shoot well for him so he took it over to Marc Soulie of Spartan Rifles and Marc performed the fascinating video diagnosis you see below.  Marc fixed the rifle and made it a 1/2 MOA shooter but.....naturally, tacticalrifles.net sent him a threatening legal letter and I believe one to the owner as well.

  The owner of SnipersHide (LowLight/Frank) saw the thread and promptly posted his response to a previous tacticalrifles.net legal threat and......his own experience with a tacticalrifles.net of a student's.

  You stay classy tacticalrifles.net, stay classy.  Legal threats beat QC, anytime.

Dalton Defense Fund update

Remember this post?

  Well.....in six hours, we raised five hundred dollars, Way of the Multigun donated a freaking S&W M&P 9mm pistol (with many extras), a KKM match barrel was bought and donated, Dark Star Gear donated a custom holster, and Volund Gearworks donated a custom belt.

  Later on, some of my favorite electronic earmuffswere bought and shipped, a pair of Oakley M Frame Sunglasseswere bought and shipped, ToddG donated a case of ball training ammo, John Murphy donated a handgun training class, a good friend of mine sent defensive ammo and a Streamlight TLR-1 C4 WML, VDMSR kicked over some mags and defensive ammo, and countless random donations like cleaning gear, a range bag, etc all started showing up to the shipping address.

  This post is an update.  We are still assembling everything and making sure the pistol shoots well with its new sights.

  Folks, this is how the firearms community rolls.  Let me tell you a story about a guy I know (me).  I....got shot.  I was broke.  I realized that in order to subsist on my 60% long term disability (I was too busy having fun with a DVT and MRSA plus multiple operations) that I needed to sell some guns to make ends meet.  I placed my Nighthawk Predator for sale on AR15.com.  A few hours later, a guy I'd chatted with gun boards (never met in person), a Mr. Shawn Nealon of the (now defunct) CavArms sent me a note saying in essence:

Dude, don't sell your guns.  I'll donate a rifle to you so that you can raffle it off.

  Needless to say, I was bowled over by this offer.  Pride kept me from taking him up on his offer but his kindness and generosity still reverberate with me today.  I hope that someday karma comes back around for Shawn.

  Anyway, here's some teaser pics:

ToddG's ammo donation:

Amazing work on the Dark Star Gear holster and Volund Gearworks belt!  The pink and gray color scheme is important to the recipient of this generosity as the widow of someone who passed away due to brain cancer

Random donated stuff showing up in the mail!

Folks react differently in times of stress

  I know, I wasn't there so I couldn't possibly judge and if I do opine on the situation, I HATE COPS.

  Anyway, at about 1:26, watch as two guys trip over themselves retreating, and one guy with massive cojones continues firing, does not retreat, and saves the hostage.

One gunshop commando

One Gunshop Commando to rule them all, One Gunshop Commando to find them,  One Gunshop Commando to bring them all and in the darkness bind them 


In the Land of Fauquier County where the gun shop invaders lie.

I should not make fun of a good local gunshop but.....sometimes folks do this to themselves.

In the gun shop in Vint Hill Virginia, the One Gunshop Commando works.

Here is his apparent EDC gear as witnessed multiple times by myself and friends:

•  AIWB (Appendix, Inside Waist Band) Bowie knife of some sort.  Carried without a cover garment.
• Cuffs.
• Baton
• Glock (in a SERPA, of course).  OWB (Outside Waist Band) no cover garment.
• Two extra Glock mags
• Badge, displayed openly.  For a local security company (he calls it a "contractor" but they don't contract overseas.  Not actual law enforcement.
• Extra pocket knife clipped inside pocket
• And.....the piece de resistance:  a wind meter worn hanging around his neck.  You know; for those long distance shots with his Glock when he has to dial some windage.  Duh.

In a manifestation of my Marine-ness, I asked him "why do you wear all of that shit?"  He blustered back with "ever seen a gun store invasion?"  Yeah.....  Words kind of failed me at that point.

I considered taking a picture and actually naming the store outright but I'm not that mean.  Hopefully the guy will get over wearing his entire ensemble and just do his job sans 20 pounds of crap he doesn't need.  If you want to see the spectacle, it's not hard to figure out where this place is.  Try not to point and laugh openly.  

In vehicle DVR: Cheap insurance!

  Two short weeks ago, a friend in law enforcement recommended buying a in-vehicle DVR (digital video recorder).  I looked at the price of the Generic K6000 Vehicle DVR  that he recommended from personal experience and impulse bought it along with a SanDisk Ultra 32 GB MicroSDHC card that totaled to be under $70 out the door, delivered with Amazon Prime.  I liked the price, the night vision recording, the auto on/auto off feature when plugged into the vehicle, and the G-shock sensor that automatically saves the recording in case of an accident.  The device also records audio with a built in microphone.

  Set up was minimal and easy.  Basically, mount the device, insert the Micro SD card, power on, set the time and date, and GO!  Playback using the SD card adaptor worked flawlessly on a Windows 7 desktop and Macbook Pro.  I can very easily turn it towards any angle I want to record.

  Today, I was driving to work and a Cadillac veered across three lanes of traffic to make an illegal U-turn.  I braked in time but can't help being thankful for clear cut, incontrovertible evidence of the other driver's wrongdoing and recklessness.

  Said law enforcement buddy evaluated this incident after viewing:

Completely and utterly his fault, you are not even required by law to attempt to brake as his turn was EXTREMELY sudden, the only reason you did not hit him, in my opinion, was because you had a good distance on him (of about a car length).  If you were going slightly faster and closed the distance on him, you probably wouldn't been able to get around him and more than likely destroyed him.   If you did impact him, and the video or physical evidence showed absolutely zero braking or swerving and only showed the Cadillac's illegal turns/reckless driving there would almost be no investigation. 

  Folks, these things are cheap insurance and a no brainer.  Get one for every vehicle you one.  You may need it someday and it's like a gun; when you need it, you really need it.

  Video below.  Watch for the Cadillac coming in from the right.