The short grip of the 26 can be fixed
with a longer magazine fitted with a
slip-on grip at the bottom,
Those grip extenders are notorious for causing reliability problems.
Get a grip! (Don't extend it, buy it long enough in the first
place. Aka 19, 17.) Glock grips _are_ a bit fat, but they're
all double-stack magazines. GG was after military contracts,
no way he was going to make the thinner single-stack kind.
(Not at first, anyway, and I don't think he's changed that.)
Have I told my Glock story? When I first bought my house was
about the same time a buddy bought his first gun, a G17. I
had acreage, so he came out here to try it out. (Range time
costs, and he wanted some outside fun too.) Three of us there
to try it out. I had some dying oranges, three of them, so I
jammed sticks in the ground and the oranges on top.
A: Fills gun, aims at orange, misses. x18.
E: Fills gun, aims at orange, misses. x18.
I: Fills gun, aims at orange, hit. x2. (Then misses x16.)
I would have given nearly _anything_ for that third shot to be
a hit. I would have handed it back, with 15 still in it, and
said "nice gun."
I had no pistol experience up 'til then, and certainly despised
his choice of weapon as being all plastic and ugly. A Toyota,
in other words. (I mostly held my tongue, though, no need to
crap on his parade.) The problem is, it actually works pretty well
in spite of everything I don't like about it. It's an excellent
utility piece. The one to loan to friends when they go out
drinking. Or diving in salt water. Esthetically I prefer
old-school work. Like a S&W N-frame, or my 200D.
I _would_ like to get one of their entrenching shovels (one of
GG's early products). I'd carry it to a party under my coat,
and then ask this guy if he wanted to see my new Glock. "I
got as many shots as you'll hold still for!"
-- Jim
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