My Glock 44 Review - 02/02/20
I had preordered mine back at the first of December. It finally came in last week, but I didn't have a chance to shoot it until yesterday.
After reading a lot of the posts here (and in the rimfire section) on it, and seeing several video reviews, I was beginning to question my decision to order one.
A few of the issues that people reported having with it were:
1) firing 36 grain bullets reliably
2) inability to shoot POA
3) cracking slide and blown extractor from shooting slightly out of battery
4) failure to feed first round from a loaded mag
5) having to clean it every 100 rds to get it to function
So, I took the pistol out to the farm. It was my dad's birthday and we were helping him with some chores and then having a big cookout. So, no accuracy report other than how coke cans fared out to 40 yds.
First, because of reports of ammo issues, I didn't bring my normal 22 pistol food, instead I brought the cheap stuff. Good ol' Remington Thunder-turds, golden bullets, Winchester 36gr bulk pak (didn't make pic below), Federal Automatch and for good measure some CCI MiniMags (not cheap, but wanted to see how they performed).
The good:
We put a little over 500 rounds total from the various sources listed above through it. Not only did I NOT clean it every 100 rds, I didn't clean it at all. I never added a drop of oil to it. It was how it came from the factory.
We didn't have a single failure to fire. Everything we fed it went bang and the gun cycled flawlessly after every round fired. I can say that I've never had that happen with the brands of ammo that I was using before.
While we weren't shooting for accuracy, it was minute of coke can (easily) out to 40 yds. And, it shot POA for me as well. Most of the rounds fired were 36gr and it did so with aplomb.
Now, the only negative issue I ran into. There were 5 times (out of over 500 shots fired) where I had a failure to feed. This was because, when you load the magazine to capacity, that last couple of rounds would sit flat (level) instead of angling the bullet up.
As a result, those 5 times I had a fail to feed. So, it seems that issue number 4 above did affect it 1% of the time.
While out there, I had 4 people who had never shot a handgun in their lives shoot it for a while. They all had so much fun that they shot until dark and arguing over who got to shoot next (adults).
All in all, mine seems to be a great pistol so far and even fires (with 100% reliability) the cheap ammo that even my Ruger MK3's don't always like.
I'm glad that I got mine (so far).
After reading a lot of the posts here (and in the rimfire section) on it, and seeing several video reviews, I was beginning to question my decision to order one.
A few of the issues that people reported having with it were:
1) firing 36 grain bullets reliably
2) inability to shoot POA
3) cracking slide and blown extractor from shooting slightly out of battery
4) failure to feed first round from a loaded mag
5) having to clean it every 100 rds to get it to function
So, I took the pistol out to the farm. It was my dad's birthday and we were helping him with some chores and then having a big cookout. So, no accuracy report other than how coke cans fared out to 40 yds.
First, because of reports of ammo issues, I didn't bring my normal 22 pistol food, instead I brought the cheap stuff. Good ol' Remington Thunder-turds, golden bullets, Winchester 36gr bulk pak (didn't make pic below), Federal Automatch and for good measure some CCI MiniMags (not cheap, but wanted to see how they performed).
The good:
We put a little over 500 rounds total from the various sources listed above through it. Not only did I NOT clean it every 100 rds, I didn't clean it at all. I never added a drop of oil to it. It was how it came from the factory.
We didn't have a single failure to fire. Everything we fed it went bang and the gun cycled flawlessly after every round fired. I can say that I've never had that happen with the brands of ammo that I was using before.
While we weren't shooting for accuracy, it was minute of coke can (easily) out to 40 yds. And, it shot POA for me as well. Most of the rounds fired were 36gr and it did so with aplomb.
Now, the only negative issue I ran into. There were 5 times (out of over 500 shots fired) where I had a failure to feed. This was because, when you load the magazine to capacity, that last couple of rounds would sit flat (level) instead of angling the bullet up.
As a result, those 5 times I had a fail to feed. So, it seems that issue number 4 above did affect it 1% of the time.
While out there, I had 4 people who had never shot a handgun in their lives shoot it for a while. They all had so much fun that they shot until dark and arguing over who got to shoot next (adults).
All in all, mine seems to be a great pistol so far and even fires (with 100% reliability) the cheap ammo that even my Ruger MK3's don't always like.
I'm glad that I got mine (so far).