Breaking IN or Wearing OUT

[bocaboca]

I was reading previous posts re .25 cent trigger job and the consensus seems to be that a few thousands rounds through the gun will produce the same results. Does that mean that the parts are breaking IN and getting smoother or are they wearing OUT and loosing metal thickness?

[Butch]

Smoothing up..... :)

It's only getting warmed up at a couple thousand rounds.




:patriot:

[WellArmedSheep]

I performed the 25 cent trigger job on the Glock that I shoot most often, but the more I've shot it since then the smoother the trigger's gotten. I'm sure you'll get to the point where the parts will wear out, but the parts are so easy and cheap to replace (free if you send it back to Glock) that you really don't have to worry about it.

[carbofan21]

a good (short) read

http://membres.lycos.fr/shooter/glock/glock4.html

[ab4ka]

I recently picked up a very nice 2nd gen G17, and it is absolutely smooth as butter. It shoots better than any new Glock I've ever felt, and I think it's just getting warmed up. Parts in the trigger assembly that wear in will only wear to a point where they become smooth and then there shouldn't be any more real wear as long as the gun is properly lubricated.

[fastbolt]

I like to think of it as wearing in both the pistol and the shooter/user.

Also, facilitating the reinforcement of good techniques and skills can't be a bad thing from my perspective. I don't know about anyone else, but it's highly unlikely I'm going to only be using & shooting, 'silky smooth, familiar, well-tuned competitive type' pistols all my life. I learned that when first carrying issued service revolvers. ;)

Then again, until such time as I retire and am no longer wandering around working and covering other LE, I do anticipate the potential necessity of perhaps having to use someone else's weapon ... without warning, and most likely under the 'worst' of conditions.

Don't get me wrong, as I do enjoy a nicely set up 1911, but I don't use a heavy, stiff or gritty trigger as an excuse or rationalization for shooting to a degree less than I'd normally be willing to accept. I like to focus on developing my skills to the point where they can rise to the occasion of using virtually any and all 'plain' service-type handguns produced within the normal range of production specifications.

I'd feel differently if I were engaged in sporting/competitive venues where such things might make the difference when it came to 1/100th's of a second in determining the winner, though.