Re: Glock Accuracy
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Graham</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kentactic</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Graham</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kentactic</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i bet the accuracy of that glock clears right up.</div></div>I bet it doesn't. But I admit that it depends on what the accuracy standard is to begin with. </div></div>if you cant put 10 rounds in one ragged hole at 10 yards then either you or your pistol is fucked up. take any modern pistol off the shelf and clamp that fucker down in a vice and shoot groups and they all will shoot similar group sizes... i see it all the time...</div></div>I doubt you've actually tried that, or seen it, especially with polymer frames, because then you would not have posted that. Are you talking from experience? Because there's a reason some people don't shoot lead out of their Glocks and a reason why Les Baer sorts barrels for his 'guarantee' pistols....and other reasons as well. </div></div>
I'm holding my target from last week here in my hand...5 rounds at 25 yards from a G34, measuring 2.5" center to center. That's with a 5.5lb stock trigger and HD night sights, using an isosceles hold, unsupported.
The key bit of info missing from the OP's post was where he had someone else shoot the G21 and found the same results. I'm not willing to believe something is wrong with my pistol until and unless I've had at least one or two other experienced pistol shooters put a magazine through the weapon and produce the same result.
As Frank said (I think it was him..), it's not that we're good...just that everyone else sucks. 10-15 MOA from a handgun isn't *that* difficult to achieve from most quality pistols provided there's nothing grossly wrong with the trigger or sights. Most every high-grade target pistol I've handled or sold had a 15, 25 or 50 yard target somewhere in the box that measured in the vicinity of 1-3 inches. Just because that Sig P210 can print a 3" group at 50 yards doesn't mean that you're likely to ever see anyone do it unsupported. Conversely, just because your run-of-the-mill G17 doesn't include a test target doesn't mean that it isn't mechanically capable of placing every round within 2-3 inches at 25 yards. The first rule is, the shooter shall not fuck up the gun.
As an aside, I knew a couple who decided to get into shooting one day. They bought a top-of-the-line Sig X5 racegun and a Dillon 550B, and began shooting about a thousand rounds a week. A year or so, and 50-60,000 rounds later, they'd progressed to shooting out dime-sized groups at 15 yards for hundreds of shots in a row. Never did find out how many rounds it was before they needed to replace anything on the X5, but it was a while...
