I went and shot the Glock 34 yesterday. It brought back remembrances of the part of the debriefing sessions called “Lessons Learned”.
1. This is not a good home defense weapon. A bucket of rocks would be better because you can only throw the glock once but with a bucket you can just keep on throwing rocks.
2. Building on #1 above the Glock is obviously a member to the local pistol union and as such the shop steward has determined it only has to feed and fire ammo costing more than fifty cents a round. It is under no obligation to feed cheap PMC ammo.
3. PMC ammo will not even cycle the action far enough to clear the case in the chamber a lot of times.
4. The meaning of the term “ limp wrist” shooters finally penetrated the depth of my cortex and became understandable.
5. The cure for limpwrist syndrome has certain characteristics similar to the 60mm knee fired mortar. You can only cure it once by putting your off side hand such that your thumb over laps on the top of your gun hand as you would a revolver.
6. Tumbling your cheap PMC brass with your 460S&W brass may save energy but it is dumb as all get out. The 9mm brass will go down into the bottom of the 460 brass and the vibrations will cause media to wedge between the case walls and stick the 9mm brass tight in the bottom. It requires looking in each case with a flashlight to be sure you don’t have the doubled up cases. Trying to get it out is an exercise for Jane Goodall and the chimps. The 460 is a roll crimp so stuff hangs at the mouth. Of course if you miss one that is all right, as soon as you break your decapping pin you will figure out that there is a case inside a case.
7. Paying $252 for 1000 pieces of new Lapua brass is starting to look intelligent being as the gun obviously likes to have some chamber pressure and Lapua brass (at least in a rifle) will tolerate a lot of chamber pressure.
8. I should have just stuck with the 469S&W. Its slow as trying to eat cold oatmeal, but you only got to hit a person once with it. The muzzle blast alone would fry the hair off his head.
Other than all of that, if you feed it moderately priced ammo it will put every round in a four inch circle at 25 yards just time and time again. In all seriousness its probably a very good pistol and I would never have bought cheap ammo except I wanted it for the brass to reload. It did fine with ammo that would actually cause the slide to go all the way to the rear stop.