When They Won’t Buy What I Want

This is horrible. Mike still hasn’t chosen a 1911 to buy, and today he is asking me about GLOCKS.

Oh, man. Not that. Anything but that.

I have Glocks. Wonderful guns for self-defense. Accurate. Easy to shoot. Durable. Reliable. Light. They strip in five seconds. But man are they boring. And as heirlooms they’re about as exciting as shoehorns. “Here, Butch, this is your dad’s boxy, dull-finished plastic gun, which he bought because he watched too many Vanilla Ice videos. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal…”

This can’t be happening. I was counting on him getting a sweet new 1911 for me to shoot.

I found a sweet used Colt Special Combat carry model for the price of a new Dan Wesson. Mike thinks it’s ugly. I’m tempted to buy it myself, even though it has fixed sights. I’m not a Colt lover, but I hear nothing but good things about the Special Combat models. And if I take care of it, it should hold its value or appreciate. Does anybody out there know how big a deal it is to put adjustable sights on an old Colt with fixed sights? I might want to do that, if I buy it. If it had Novak sights, I could screw adjustable Novaks right into the same mount. But it has the old-style rear sight, which is just a bar.

I guess messing with it would hurt the collectible value.

Mike is all hot for a Glock 17L, which is the 6″-barrel competition version of the 9mm. Doesn’t do much for me, but I shoot extremely well with the 3″ Glock 26, so I would guess that the 17L is like a laser.

I think his son put him up to this.

Has this ever happened to you? You help a friend shop for a gun, you find something he should buy, and then you end up buying it yourself because he won’t listen to you?

He asked if the Glock was an okay gun to learn on. I think I gave him a complex the other day, shooting better than he did. He has been shooting twice since the 1990s, and he shot better than nearly everyone at the range, and he feels like a failure. Arrrgh.

I was wondering last night; does anyone collect Glocks? Is there any point? Wouldn’t it be like collecting cinderblocks or ping pong balls? Aren’t they all nearly the same? “Here’s my 1992 Glock 17, in black plastic with a dull finish. And here’s my 2004 Glock 22. In black plastic with a dull finish. No, wait. That’s the 17.” Ahh. What works of art.

Range time later.