{"id":2552,"date":"2014-01-04T23:23:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2014-01-04T23:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T03:23:21","slug":"2-new-glocks-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2-new-glocks-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"2 NEW GLOCKS FOR 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my way to a Glock match, ironically enough, when I learned that Glock has ended its media embargo on their two new models, which I previously couldn\u2019t talk about until the 6<sup>th<\/sup> per Non-Disclosure Agreement.\u00a0 Harris Publications got my short preview on them up on Saturday.\u00a0When I viewed it (it may have been corrected by now) the \u00a0video cut off in mid-sentence just when I was starting to discuss accuracy of the Glock 42 in .380.\u00a0 At a full 25 yards, this little pocket pistol kept Winchester 95 grain full metal jacket under four inches, and shot even tighter with Remington Golden Saber 102 grain hollow points.\u00a0 Buffalo Bore\u2019s popular hard cast lead 100 grain load kept four out of five in four inches at 25 yards, a dimension widely considered to be \u201cacceptable combat accuracy\u201d with full size service pistols much larger than this wafer-thin, 13 or so ounce pocket pistol. <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKrnyyUIoMY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> The 41 will compete with long-slide polymer frame .45s such as the Springfield XD(m). The long, thin slide gives the \u201cwand-like\u201d handling of the Glock 34 9mm and Glock 35 in .40 that have made them so popular in IDPA and USPSA competition, respectively, but with 13-1 rounds of .45 ACP.\u00a0 It put all shots under two inches at 25 yards with Remington 185 grain hollow point and Federal 230 grain +P. <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKrnyyUIoMY?list=UUdRuAxV8Y27HKO73vFrJhAw\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> Testing on this end, begun in December, will continue, but so far we\u2019re happy with both and haven\u2019t been able to make either pistol malfunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my way to a Glock match, ironically enough, when I learned that Glock has ended its media embargo on their two new models, which I previously couldn\u2019t talk about until the 6th per Non-Disclosure Agreement.\u00a0 Harris Publications got my short preview on them up on Saturday.\u00a0When I viewed it (it may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}