Glocks are known to be the most reliable pistols out there, what are you talking about? You could bury a glock and then fire 300 rounds out of it with little problems.
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=86896http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/other/Glock_vs_1911.htmOne reliability issue which I've seen more with Glocks than other pistols is their occasional failure to detonate primers. While Glock advocates will say that other pistols have the same problem, I've only seen it happen on Glocks. While Glock true-believers are driven to proclaim their guns as the ultimate in reliability, the NYPD has been experiencing extractor problems and double feeds on their Glock 9mms.
This is mostly issues with the Glock 17, but some say that the Glock 19 has fixed some reliability issues. I might be wrong, I pulled up some sources like above, but I clearly remember reading/hearing about why the Glock 17(?) was being phased out, and that there were reliability issues with it.
I also just realized I don't know that much about Glock handguns so there's room for error.
shut up you both ruined the joke
i never really understood recoil. is it really just a really strong backwards 'push' from the bullet being fired?
When the primer is ignited, the propellant
explodes. This generates force which propels the bullet out of the cartridge and then the gun. In handguns, that pressure/force is utilized to push the slide back, which ejects the spent cartridge and roosters the hammer (the slide then returns to its normal position which chambers another round. That's what makes it semiautomatic). Recoil is the energy exerted on the gun (and then your arm/shoulder), backwards.
Essentially, it's Newton's third law:
Third Law: The mutual forces of action and reaction between two bodies are equal, opposite and collinear. This means that whenever a first body exerts a force F on a second body, the second body exerts a force −F on the first body. F and −F are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. This law is sometimes referred to as the action-reaction law, with F called the "action" and −F the "reaction".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RecoilThat's why a .22 round has almost no recoil (there's not that much explosive force), and a 10-Gauge shotgun shell can knock you on your ass. I hope I explained that well.
