[ansel12]

I just can’t remember.

I bought my Glock in 1986, but read extensively on it in 1984 and 1985, before choosing it.

I’ve been looking for the reasons why it couldn’t compete, but it seems too far back and too obscure to quickly find something on the internet.

I’ll keep searching, I have seen guys on some forums mentioning a lack of a hammer and not having second strike capability, but who knows.

[yarddog]

I had an early Glock 17 and a 17L. The 17L was unusual in that it had the cutout in the slide but the barrel was solid.

I had quite a few jams with both but eventually discovered it was a run of magazines which was the problem. If you could see brass colored metal in the feed lip area, the mag was bad.

Seeing that metal color was not the problem. It was just that the bad mags also had that feature.

They have long since corrected whatever the problem was and from what I have read, are extremely reliable now.