Iced Glock

[SA Friday]

Lube it up with a non-synthetic grease and try that. No workie...

The lube used is probably more important than the gun manufacture in this test.

[tbaby303]

Ice, Fire, Water, Dirt, the glock will alwase rock. Nice vid

[Jer]

Lube it up with a non-synthetic grease and try that. No workie...

The lube used is probably more important than the gun manufacture in this test.

Lube? Grease? What's this stuff you speak of?

[Irving]

I don't think I've been shooting enough to be impressed by these torture tests. Aren't all guns supposed to shoot until something breaks? Like this particular video I see it and don't see any reason why any of my guns wouldn't fire under the same circumstances.

Like I said though, I probably haven't been shooting enough.

[Mista Bukit]

Good video but he forgot one of the "rules"---- DO NOT PUT YOUR FINGER ON THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOU ARE GOING TO SHOOT

[theGinsue]

Good video but he forgot one of the "rules"---- DO NOT PUT YOUR FINGER ON THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOU ARE GOING TO SHOOT

Translated: Keep your booger picker off of the bang lever.

[Irving]

I kind of felt like the cloth of his glove was sticking into the trigger guard more than his finger was. But then again, his finger should have been held straight, above the guard and against the frame.

In my personal experience, I find that when it's cold and people are wearing thick gloves, they tend jam their gloved finger in the trigger guard and leave it there. I got into a fight with my brother once because he kept doing crap like that.

[HandKBRad]

Yeah I don’t get what the big deal is when it come to shooting in the cold. I’ve shot a lot of different weapons in extreme cold climates and I didn’t notice any changes in performance. I do however see how the other parts of torture tests prove something. Am I missing something?

[SA Friday]

Cold weather can have some serious results with some pistols. Very tight fitting slide to frame guns with steel slides and receivers can be problematical in very cold weather. Get some water in the rails before it freezes or humitidy from one's body in the gun before it freezes can lock it up till you can thaw it out.

Most modern production firearms have enough slop in the moving parts to keep them reliable. The two biggest things you have to worry about in extreme cold weather is temp sensitive powders and the lube in the gun. Every lube starts to turn to a solid at some point when it gets cold. There are some non synthetic greases that will pretty much stop the slide in it's tracks at freezing. Even if the lube doesn't turn solid, it can thicken when cold enough to cause FTE's and possibly FTF's if there is lube in the firing pin/striker channel.

See a bit of this every Oct/Nov time at the pistol competitions around here. People forget to clean out the Slide Glide from their STI's, it get really cold for a match, and the gun just won't run. Clean out the Slide Glide and replace it with 10w-30 synthetic motor oil and they run again.