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Thanks again all. Some other life stuff happened earlier this year and I ran out of time to practice with the Glock. Will likely put some more effort into the Glock soon.

Thanks all for the additional comments. Sorry for the delayed response. I got caught up in some other stuff over the last few weeks. I'm debating using this firearm (Glock 17) in IPSC this season. I seem to be making headway and tried some rapid double taps with mixed results. I have a lot more work to do. I'm hoping to get someone to time me and will ask him or her to take some photos. I have tried a few minor variations of how I am placing my thumbs and positioning my trigger finger on the trigger and seem to homing on on something that works for me.

Mostly 2. As a bit of a tangent. At first I found my self switching between aligning the top of the fiber optic with the top of rear sight or aligning the top of the front sight post with the top of the rear sight but I trained my self to almost always line up the top of the front post with the top of the rear sight. I like to think if the fiber optic came out of the front sight post during a match I could carry on without it and I did practice a bit without the fiber optic in place.

Thanks that is useful. I appreciate the information.

Thanks that is helpful. I appreciate the information.

I appreciate your comments. That is a good question that I don't really have an answer to

Hi. I have been trying some different ways of holding my Glock 17 Gen 5. I seem to be getting better results with the thumb of my weak hand not touching the the firearm (but it is touching the thumb of my strong hand and is parallel to the firearm (It is maybe 3/8" from the trigger guard.) I seem to be lightly pressing down with the thumb on my strong hand and up with the thumb of my weak hand. I don't recall ever shooting this way before and I am wondering if this is a bad habit to get into ? Have put less than 1,000 rounds thru that Glock and want to build up some good habits. Have done some "dime on front sight" drills and the results seem to match the results when actually firing. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks NetSync

Thanks all for the responses. I do recall when using 115 and 124 grain round nose bullets that the first few rounds in a full magazine were somewhat harder than the others to manually unload but I never thought much about this issue until I started using 147 grain flat nose bullets. I'm glad to hear what I have experienced is normal.

Thanks that is also helpful. I ended up having to use a flat bladed screw driver to unload the first few rounds of each fully loaded magazine.

Thanks I wasn't aware of that. Something to add to my shopping list. In my experience 1911 magazines have been easy enough to load by hand that I have never felt a magazine loading tool was needed, but I can see the benefit of such a device for unloading.

Thanks that is very helpful !

I recently started using 9mm cartridges loaded with 147 grain flat nose bullets, and a new to me issue has surfaced. It is very difficult to manually unload fully loaded 10 round magazines. Other than that there have not been any notable issues. Loading the magazines is not an issue, but manually unloading them if I don't use them in a 1911 is. The 1911 I have been using seems to have no issues feeding from magazines loaded with these cartridges. I've fired approximately 500 rounds or so and this 1911 seems to function properly with these cartridges, but I have a nagging doubt the issues I am having unloading fully loaded magazines might be an indication of potential issues down the road ? This issue first surfaced after a practice session which ended with one fully loaded magazine that subsequently was very hard to unload. I subsequently replicated the issue with several other magazines which had otherwise worked properly when actually shooting. I never ended any of my other range visits with fully loaded magazines so this issue never came up before. I have had no issues unloading magazines using cartridges loaded with 115 and 124 grain round nosed bullets. In the big scheme of things I can live with this issue but I am curious if this a common issue ? Thanks in advance for any comments.