Sarge
December 15, 2012, 11:08 AM
I picked up a police trade-in Glock 23 about a week ago… mid 2007 production w/ factory night sights. I paid about $175 under retail, for the same model new and similarly equipped. Of course the gun is used and looks like it.
The good news is that the barrel, feedramp and breechface indicate a very low round count. I'm betting it was issued to a detective or staff officer and it's pretty apparent he or she wasn't a range rat.The gun has the dreaded 7 ¾ pound ‘New York’ trigger, but it has a very good two-stage setup and is crisp when it breaks. I really don’t mind it, particularly on a gun carried IWB a lot.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/Image0600.jpg
The first few magazines showed it was shooting fine for elevation, but about 4” left at 25 yards. Lacking a fancy screw-driven sight adjusting tool, I just did what I’ve always done; padded a vise with cardboard and knocked the rear sight over with a hammer & punch. Yep, that’s rain on the gun. At 47 degrees it was perfect sighting-in weather ;)
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/Sight_Vise.jpg
With the windage corrected, it was time to confirm zero at 50 yards. I had trouble seeing the little 1” red center at that distance so I stapled some white paper over it. I fired the first 5 rounds, Federal 165 grain HST, holding directly on the center with my hands rested on the range bag. Then I fired 5 rounds of 165 grain American Eagle FMJ standing, unsupported. The HST rounds have the vertical mark and the AE shows horizontal marks.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/AE165_50yd.jpg
The little gun rides well in a hard-used old Safariland 27 IWB. Since it's going to be my primary off-duty gun, I needed at get a qualification in with it.Our basic course includes timed shooting at 15 and 25 yards and lots of 2-3 shot strings from the holster or low ready at the closer distances. We has a few 50 foot reduced B21's left and they don't leave much room for error at the longer distances. I posted a 180/185 with the G23 on the first run & I was pretty happy with that.
Posted with permission of Dept. Head & Administrator under the ‘unclassified training events’ exclusion.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/G23_Qual_121112.jpg
The good news is that the barrel, feedramp and breechface indicate a very low round count. I'm betting it was issued to a detective or staff officer and it's pretty apparent he or she wasn't a range rat.The gun has the dreaded 7 ¾ pound ‘New York’ trigger, but it has a very good two-stage setup and is crisp when it breaks. I really don’t mind it, particularly on a gun carried IWB a lot.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/Image0600.jpg
The first few magazines showed it was shooting fine for elevation, but about 4” left at 25 yards. Lacking a fancy screw-driven sight adjusting tool, I just did what I’ve always done; padded a vise with cardboard and knocked the rear sight over with a hammer & punch. Yep, that’s rain on the gun. At 47 degrees it was perfect sighting-in weather ;)
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/Sight_Vise.jpg
With the windage corrected, it was time to confirm zero at 50 yards. I had trouble seeing the little 1” red center at that distance so I stapled some white paper over it. I fired the first 5 rounds, Federal 165 grain HST, holding directly on the center with my hands rested on the range bag. Then I fired 5 rounds of 165 grain American Eagle FMJ standing, unsupported. The HST rounds have the vertical mark and the AE shows horizontal marks.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/AE165_50yd.jpg
The little gun rides well in a hard-used old Safariland 27 IWB. Since it's going to be my primary off-duty gun, I needed at get a qualification in with it.Our basic course includes timed shooting at 15 and 25 yards and lots of 2-3 shot strings from the holster or low ready at the closer distances. We has a few 50 foot reduced B21's left and they don't leave much room for error at the longer distances. I posted a 180/185 with the G23 on the first run & I was pretty happy with that.
Posted with permission of Dept. Head & Administrator under the ‘unclassified training events’ exclusion.
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x187/SargeMO/G23_Qual_121112.jpg