{"id":6164,"date":"2020-02-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2020-02-24T23:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T04:35:46","slug":"rock-in-the-glock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/rock-in-the-glock\/","title":{"rendered":"ROCK IN THE GLOCK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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No, folks,\nthe old guy here didn\u2019t mess up his punctuation.  (Not this time, at least.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last weekend\nI was shooting a Glock match (Glock Sport Shooting Foundation, www.gssfonline.com<\/a>) and when I loaded my G42 .380 to shoot the Pocket Glock division, the\ntrigger didn\u2019t re-set forward to ready-to-fire condition when I chambered a\nround. Whisky Tango Foxtrot? I cleared the gun, the range officer and I checked\nit, and it definitely had a dead trigger. My shooting buddy David Rodgers\nvolunteered to take it to the on-site Glock Armorer while I shot something\nelse, and was kind enough to do so while I shot my next division, Rimfire, with\nthe new Glock 44 in .22 Long Rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he came\nback with the bagged pistol, David told me with a big grin, \u201cRock in the\nGlock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I heard\n\u201cRockin\u2019 the Glock,\u201d which is a younger shooter\u2019s term for those of us who\ncarry and\/or shoot Glock pistols, and looked at David quizzically: Hell,\neverybody there <\/em>was \u201cRockin\u2019 a\nGlock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave shook\nhis head. \u201cNo,\u201d he said. \u201cRock. In. <\/em>Your.\nGlock.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And he\nshowed me the pebble the Master Glock Armorer had removed from the\ndisconnector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My lovely bride and I are still trying to figure out how the Hell that happened. She\u2019s involved because she\u2019s an Advanced Glock Armorer, and my own armorer\u2019s certification with that platform has long since lapsed. In our house, she\u2019s the Glock Nurse. If cars were guns, I\u2019d be a driving instructor and she\u2019d be a chief mechanic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the\nGlock pistol is one of the most reliable firearms in the history of weaponry.\nShe and I use that little .380 these days only for Pocket Glock events, a few\nof which I\u2019ve been lucky enough to win. It lives in the safe and travels to the\nrange in a zippered case inside an enclosed roller bag. She routinely checks\nour competition Glocks before matches, but was absent this time caring for a\nsick relative.  How that pebble got in\nthe Glock\u2019s mechanism I\u2019ll probably never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I do\nknow the lesson. Folks I shoot with tease me that I never clean my match guns\nor recreational guns until lower life forms start evolving inside their\nneglected mechanisms. I once let a Springfield Armory XD(m) 5.25 9mm go three\nthousand rounds plus without cleaning it, which it survived without mechanical\nmalfunction, which was the purpose of the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My defense\nguns, however, get inspected monthly.  A\ntrophy on the line is one thing. Life on the line is another. The defensive\nfirearm is a life-saving emergency rescue tool. Treat it the way a firefighter\ntreats his or her equipment: if they\u2019re not using it for its intended purpose\nor training with it, they\u2019re inspecting and maintaining it.  The Glock Nurse would have caught the pebble\nif she\u2019d been home.  She wasn\u2019t, and I\ndidn\u2019t take up the slack, and was lucky to have caught the problem when we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t make\nthe mistake I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, folks, the old guy here didn\u2019t mess up his punctuation.  (Not this time, at least.) Last weekend I was shooting a Glock match (Glock Sport Shooting Foundation, www.gssfonline.com) and when I loaded my G42 .380 to shoot the Pocket Glock division, the trigger didn\u2019t re-set forward to ready-to-fire condition when I chambered a round. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}