Posted: 12/7/2012 6:44:51 AM EDT
| How do Glocks handle being soaked by being in the rain and by being submerged in water for extended periods of time. I would like to hear for service members who have used their Glocks in sever conditions. What can go wrong? |
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It depends on how long they are submerged. Mainly due to ammo getting wet really(and that can take a while). There are small parts that can rust, but generally nothing that would effect function.
Not really submersion, but I sweat like a hog during the summer and my pistol stays wet and it has never rusted or failed to function. I have pretty acidic sweat too. I have seen some photos of guys who have managed to rust their guns but they still worked. Glocks are probably one of the best, if not the best, for dealing with harsh conditions. |
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Until I was issued my Gen4 G22 back in July, I had carried my elderly Gen2 G21 on duty for almost 20 years. I have literally lost count of the number of times it got rained on (including water literally running out of the bottom of holster when I got caught in torrential downpours a few times), sweated on, packed in snow (because I'm a klutz and fall on the ice during the winter quite a bit), thrown and literally packed in snow a couple of times to make a point. The only thing I'm lacking is being completely submerged. Through it all, including not being able to clean and dry the gun when most of this happened, the gun performed flawlessly. Never a malf, no rust, nothing. The Tenifer and nickle teflon treatment (on older guns, the nitride treatment on newer ones seems to work as well) makes the guns the next best thing to rustproof. They are certainly more rust resistant than blued guns and take less care than stainless. Salt water seems to take a toll on them if submerged for a while (I remember seeing some pics from Katrina guns some time ago), but they still do better than blued or stainless guns. If dunked and retrieved right away, rinse them off with fresh water, then clean and lube as normal. Water and most environmental factors shouldn't be an issue with Glocks, as long as you take care of them.
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| I carry a 21C and have had it for 11 years now. The top edge on the outside edge of the slide has a spot on it from years of seat belt wear and the retaining hood on the holster rubbing it where it's abraded the finish away and its down close to the edge of the tennifer line (or a weak spot in treatment) I suspect. It'll rust slightly in that one spot if the oil wears away, but still far less than other guns. Its extremely minor. This gun has seen it all in terms of weather and conditions. |
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I wonder if that G21 is still goin. |
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I carried a Glock in one version or another on duty for about 10 years. Was rained on many times, and the gun got quite wet on multiple occasions.
They hold up really well. No random rust spots, even letting it dry by itself and not cleaning it for several days. |
A couple of mine have been rained on at the range before. Doesn't affect them at all other than getting a little more difficult to hold on to. My G26 has been soaked with sweat a few times (Raven Vanguard II + Alabama summer = sweaty gun), and it didn't seem to affect it...though (thankfully) I haven't had to shoot it when carrying it around that way all day. 
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I have been carrying my G21 for over 15 years, I live in Florida have worked in hurricane weather, bad thunderstorms, run tracks through swamps and creeks and the 21 has never let me down. I think I have let it go for about three days without cleaning it. Have had no problems with it rusting what so ever. Very durable and reliable. More so than my old S/W 5906. Just the mention of the word sweat and she would rust up. 
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| I sweat a lot and they've held up to that. I also had a G27 that I used as a boat gun in both fresh and salt water environments and there was no rust on it when I sold it; it usually stayed in the radio box (T-top) but also got carried on my hip and it got soaked in salt water and blood on more than one occasion with no ill effects. Just rinsed it with fresh water then sprayed out with WD40. My G19 and G26 have both been rained on and seen fresh water more than once while fishing and hiking, but not salt water. |
| In my experience, Glock pistols are highly corrosion/rust resistant, but they are not corrosion/rust proof. I managed to get my G29 soaked with salty water about six years ago and later found that while the slide itself suffered no rust issues, the firing pin spring and the safety detent spring were not so resistant. If you get salt water into the firing pin chanel and the safety detent hole, clean them out. |
| I went on a hike with my buddy two years ago that involved swimming through pools of water at the bottom of a canyon. My Glock was completely submerged multiple times and air dried for 7 hours, then inspected 2 days later. My aftermarket front sight had a little rust on the screw that holds it on from the bottom. Everything else looked like factory Glock parts. |
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I wonder if that G21 is still goin. I shot it a few years ago before I transferred down here and it was still going strong. |
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In my experience, Glock pistols are highly corrosion/rust resistant, but they are not corrosion/rust proof. I managed to get my G29 soaked with salty water about six years ago and later found that while the slide itself suffered no rust issues, the firing pin spring and the safety detent spring were not so resistant. If you get salt water into the firing pin chanel and the safety detent hole, clean them out. Same experience here, had my 35 soaked in Gatorade and thought nothing of it, a week later a round was corroded in the chamber, pin, and other misc springs and hardware were rusted, quick wiped down with clp and bore brush and its still running till this day. |
I've never gotten any of mine wet, but I watched a YouTube video of a couple of guys, shooting stuff and trying to show how tuff Glocks are. At the end of the video, one of them said, "oh, BTW, will your 1911 do this?". He then tossed his Glock into the shallow side of a river, picked it up and started shooting it! 
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