As some of you know, I've been trying to wear out my G34 using only steel case ammo and the pistol being my primary practice, competition and general blasting pistol. I've worn springs, broken a striker, but at round 39,687 I had another kind of failure:
I don't even run an optic, but one of the optic screws sheared off and fell out (found it on the ground at the range so I'm kinda assuming it fell out when I first holstered the gun, not during firing or it would have gone flying off into space). I figured it might be OK to keep using it as is with 1 screw, or just pull the plate off and run without it but that's kinda ghetto and who knows if the IDPA rules lawyers would call me out for a modified gun in SSP. Unlikely, but some people like to complain about stuff.
We thought about trying to ez-out the screw out ourselves, I have all the hardware skills of a software engineer (and the programming ability of a hardware engineer) so I wasn't going to try it but others in our crew were on board with giving it a go. Instead though, I chickened out and asked Glock if screw extraction would be covered under the warranty and they said yes. I took it to the LGS and had it sent off for repair a few weeks back.
Today it returned, and included a list of things they replaced while they had it:
I'm no armorer, but damn that's about all the parts in the gun that aren't the slide, barrel or frame. It now feels like a new pistol, doesn't rattle and the trigger is back to heavy/stiff/mushy glock perfection. All that live and dryfire that had transformed my G34 trigger to be medium/gritty/mushy glock perfection are gone. Sigh. On the plus side the trigger doesn't bind like it was occasionally doing before. Nothing major but when shooting weak hand only you could feel the trigger catching on something on occasion.
It's also clean:
They did something to the finish too, not refinishing it... maybe just cleaned it really well? Holster wear is there, muzzle wear is there, finish is worn off along the top edge but the sides look... less bad. The plastic frame is definitely cleaned up.
All this at a cost of... $0.
Haven't shot it yet, but will sometime soon and then get back to running it in the matches where it belongs. Since I just did that accuracy test before it broke I can compare it before and after. Same barrel but will the other refreshes have any impact on accuracy or POI?
I don't even run an optic, but one of the optic screws sheared off and fell out (found it on the ground at the range so I'm kinda assuming it fell out when I first holstered the gun, not during firing or it would have gone flying off into space). I figured it might be OK to keep using it as is with 1 screw, or just pull the plate off and run without it but that's kinda ghetto and who knows if the IDPA rules lawyers would call me out for a modified gun in SSP. Unlikely, but some people like to complain about stuff.
We thought about trying to ez-out the screw out ourselves, I have all the hardware skills of a software engineer (and the programming ability of a hardware engineer) so I wasn't going to try it but others in our crew were on board with giving it a go. Instead though, I chickened out and asked Glock if screw extraction would be covered under the warranty and they said yes. I took it to the LGS and had it sent off for repair a few weeks back.
Today it returned, and included a list of things they replaced while they had it:
I'm no armorer, but damn that's about all the parts in the gun that aren't the slide, barrel or frame. It now feels like a new pistol, doesn't rattle and the trigger is back to heavy/stiff/mushy glock perfection. All that live and dryfire that had transformed my G34 trigger to be medium/gritty/mushy glock perfection are gone. Sigh. On the plus side the trigger doesn't bind like it was occasionally doing before. Nothing major but when shooting weak hand only you could feel the trigger catching on something on occasion.
It's also clean:
They did something to the finish too, not refinishing it... maybe just cleaned it really well? Holster wear is there, muzzle wear is there, finish is worn off along the top edge but the sides look... less bad. The plastic frame is definitely cleaned up.
All this at a cost of... $0.
Haven't shot it yet, but will sometime soon and then get back to running it in the matches where it belongs. Since I just did that accuracy test before it broke I can compare it before and after. Same barrel but will the other refreshes have any impact on accuracy or POI?
