Posted: 1/15/2004 12:19:58 AM EDT
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OK, I've owned a couple Glocks, and found them to work great. I never had a jam with either one (17 & 19) and carried the 19 for a while until I finally decided that I preferred Sigs. It wa a personal preference thing, and had nothing to do with the capability of the Glock. Anyway, I never heard of "limp wristing" until well after my Glock experience. I never had any problems with mine, so I chalked it up to just a small problem with some shooters that basically balloned in urban myth to be some boogie man that haunts Glocks. Since I never have experienced it, just what is limp wristing and what type of malfunction does it cause? Just how frequent is it? Why if it's such a problem, have I never expereinced it, or is it limited to certain models? Odd how I would never experience, nor hear of the problem until AFTER I got rid of my Glocks. Ross |
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Limp wristing is the term used for those who cannot/or have a problem with locking their wrist on their primary shooting hand. Leaving your shooting hand wrist unlocked causes the recoil of the pistol to "buck" backward and produces a violent upward twisting of the pistol in ones hand. The most common result is the lack of proper slide movement and momentum, (most of which becomes obsorbed by the "limp" wrist movement) and pistol fails to cycle properly. Leaving "stove-pipe" type jams as well as other FTF (fail-to-feed) problems. Normally equated with female shooters, it also affects men who due to lack of familiarity with pistols, fail to realize the importance of controlling muzzle climb and pistol whip. Neither need suffer this problem given the proper instruction in locking/stiffening ones wrist. FWIW, seems most likely to occur while using large caliber semi-autos or smallesh type pistols in which the grip is difficult to hang on to, due to size or grip material. Mike |
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Ross, Like you, I've never had a problem with limp wristing my G19. I don't have limp wristing problems to begin with so naturally it's not a problem for me, but I have purposely limp wristed my G19 and couldn't induce any problems. I've even tried limp wristing weak handed rapid fire, and couldn't make my Glock fail to feed. I'm definitely not saying it's not a problem, because a lot of people have this problem with Glocks. But it seems to be the luck of the draw whether you have a Glock that suffers problems with limp wristing....some do it, some don't. I was at the range about a year ago, and a lady in the next lane was having fail to feeds with her G23. I asked if I could test her gun out for her. I purposely limp wristed and sure enough, it didn't pick up the next round. Told her to lock her wrists and the problem went away. |
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"LOcking" the wrist is more a mental thing than physical. I have seen big, strong men who had problems and small women who did not. The guys who have answered are right on target, but to add a bit more... The Glock...amd almost all other semiauto pistols...is recoil operated. If we took one and suspended it from a ceiling on some sort of wire, etc. where we could fire it and allow it to swing free in recoil, the slide and frame would move back together...more or less...and the gun would FTE/E, since there would be no solid backing for the frame, which is what allows it to stay in place while the slide moves through the cycle of operation. "limp wristing" does something similar and allows the recoil to be dissipated via the movement of the wrist...flopping all around...instead of being used to operate the gun. The Glock's low boreline, theoretically at least, should make it less inclined to the problem, but that does not seem to actually be the case with many shooters. This is a little simplified, but should now be as clear as mud to you. Ha! |