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| The Glock In Competition, 2nd edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Robin Taylor
Publisher: Taylor Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 208424
Media: Paperback
Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0966251741
EAN: 9780966251746
ASIN: 0966251741
Publication Date: December 15, 2005
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Product Description
Considering action pistol competition? Our unofficial Glock users manual takes you through the Glocks pros AND CONS as experienced by Americas top shooters. This book covers not only how to play and win the most popular shooting games, it explains reloading for the Glock, curing jam problems, tuning the trigger, and fixing the Glocks Achilles heels before they bite. Our expanded second edition draws on GSSF master Bobby Carver, customglock .coms Matt Kartozian, USPSA champ Julie Goloski, and undisputed master of the Glock, world champion David Sevigny.
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 This book should be given with every Glock sold. May 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book starts out with "Nuts and Bolts" Just this section alone is what I purchased the book for.
If you are an experienced shooter with other gun types, the biggest initial dissappointment in a Glock is the trigger. This chapter tells you everything you need (and more) about the theory of the Glock trigger and then if you still want to change it, how to do so safely. It is quite clear about what not to do as well so you won't accidentally wreck your gun. It lists what the top competitors do, where to go for parts and who to talk to if you want a pro to do it for you if you are nervous about working on your own gun.
This book is very frank about the good, the bad, the ugly and what to do about it. What ammunition not to use, what is ok, and some very valuable recommendations about what the competitors do for their reloading and why. I have changed my loads, powders, bullet size to try some of their recommendation and have been very pleased with the results. So pleased that I am now finally ordering the swag dies to go with the swag press I ordered a year ago. I finally have the confidence to order what I know will work for me.
Another area which causes a lot of consernation among new Glock users is, "What sights do I want?" The weak front sight of the Glock is well known and anyone using their gun for serious work, competition or carry, will find its easy to improve. What do you look for? What do the pros use? Why? All these are answered. The book does not say. "Get this sight!" There are too many variables to do that (age, glasses, carry, competition, speed, night-use, etc.) But the author does educate you to the point where you know what to look for in determining the best sight for your personal purpose.
Where can you benefit from a dab of grease over oil? Where do you never lube? Why isn't that in the instructions that come with the Glock? What lubes do your adamantly want to avoid!? I have two of them in my cleaning box...I was lucky I didn't grab them during the normal course of cleaning/lubing. I didn't know you could chemically peel the plating off some of Glocks parts with these. Glock needs to get the rights to publish just these two pages with all their guns.
If you have or are about to buy an older Glock, which ones have free upgrades available? Where can you find out? This book will tell you what to look for, no need to look anywhere else. During inspection of your gun, or a potential purchase, what do you want to look for? This book will tell you.
All that and more is in the first section of this book! Now lets get to the next part. How many different types of competitions are there where you can go play with the Glock? Unless you are already in some of them, I bet this book will tell you something new. The major competitions are listed along with what is good and what is not so good about each of them. Instead of buying a book for each one, this concise synopsis, ~100 pages, goes over the ins-outs and how to play competitively. This section stands on its own merits and could be its own book. If you are not tempted to go try something after reading this section, you probably don't own a gun yet.
Finally... the pros. Each top shooter has put out at least one book about what they use, why then use it, what drills they practice with and hints/tips about the game they are masters of. The author, because of his own position in the competitive world has been able to get information from several of the worlds top shooters and create a section in this book just from them. It is not as in-depth as their own books but it is worth the price of this book alone. Just take one look at the picture of Julie Goloski and if you stop to analyze that picture I guarantee you will cut a second or more off your time, no matter which game you are shooting. As an IDPA SO I have seen the majority of players reaching during their reloads...take a close look at Julie again. Bam! You just got the value of the price of this book. The guys and gals that contibruted to the last section of this book are superb competitors that have minimized their motions to exactly what is required for precise bullet placement. This section of the book will inspire you to do more, try harder and do it smarter.
So there you have it...renaming the books sections I could say: 1) The tools 2) The games 3) The inspiration.
As you can tell, I obviously highly recommend this book to everyone with a Glock or considering buying a Glock in the future. Get the whole picture before you spend any money.
See you on the range...
 Worthwhile But Bound to Be Controversial March 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Robin Taylor's second editon of The Glock in Competition is divided into three sections:
The first, Nuts and Bolts includes the chapters Triggers, Triggers, Triggers (on the various methods of massaging a Glock trigger for better performance); Handloading for the Glock; The Exploding Glock, Fact or Fiction? by Mark Passamaneck; How About Factory Ammo? (a guide to the best over-the-counter ammunition for a Glock to compete in each sport covered in the book); Magazine Problems and Solutions; Fixing the Glock's Achilles Heels Before They Bite; Cleaning and Lubrication; The Glock 24 - The Grand Old Man; The Glock 35 - Getting Everything Right; and finally, Upgrades and Fixes.
The Exploding Glock, Fact or Fiction? reprints an article written by a licensed PE (Professional Engineer) who investigates accidents and failures for a living, detailing his experiment in which he hooked up a Glock 22 .40 to a pressure testing device and fed it a diet of lead ammo until it blew up. It's well-known among Glock fans that the polygonal rifling in Glock barrels causes heavy barrel fouling with attendant high pressures when fed lead ammo. What will absolutely shock you about this chapter is just how swiftly pressures rise, how few rounds of lead ammo it takes for pressures to rise into the danger area. Most serious shooters have fired lead bullet reloads through Glocks, some of us extensively, but reading this chapter pretty much cured me of the practice.
The second section, Let the Games Begin, addresses the various competitive disciplines in which the Glock owner might engage. There are chapters on bowling pin shoots, IDPA, steel shooting, USPSA/IPSC, and Glockenmeister Bobby Carver contributes a chapter on GSSF.
I'm very partial to the chapter on IDPA shooting, largely because I had a lot of input into it (check out the teeny type on the indicia page) but also because you'd be hard pressed to find a better overview of the sport anywhere. The only problem I had with this chapter was the statement from "an anonymous source" regarding round dumping: "Everybody dumps....you've just got to be artful in the way you do it." Obviously I wasn't the only person who had input into this chapter.
In IDPA there are three legal reloads; since the slidelock reload (called in IDPA the "emergency reload") is by far the fastest of the three, in IDPA ideally you'll run dry at the point most advantageous to you. "Round dumping" refers to firing more shots than necessary at any point in the stage to get the gun to run dry at the right spot. It is illegal, blatant cheating according to the IDPA Rule Book. And no, in my experience, not "everyone does it." Actually, almost no one does. Because most shooters are men and women of honor who would never knowingly cheat.
I've been shooting IDPA since 1997, I've attended seven state championships and innumerable club matches by now, and in all that time I've seen exactly one case of round dumping. A brand-new shooter on my squad figured out a great way to burn down one stage. After having it explained politely to him why this was a bad thing, he was so embarrassed he made a public apology on the club web site the next day. And that's the sum total of my experience with round dumping in IDPA.
Those who round dump - or so I've been told - justify it with the statement, "Always cheat, always win." Well, that's cute. But "Always cheat, always win" means that in a real fight to the death, don't let a misguided sense of fair play lead you into giving your opponent a chance to kill you. It does NOT mean it's okay to cheat at the match. Clear?
The final section, Learning from Champions profiles the leading lights among Glock competitive shooters, including chapters on Dave Sevigny, Armando Valdes, Julie Goloski and Carina Burns.
If you're a Glock fan - and there are legions of us out there - you'll find Robin Taylor's book quite worthwhile - absolutely fascinating reading, actually. If you don't agree with everything in it (I didn't), still it does provide immense amounts of useful information.
Excellent book on Glocks and on Shooting Sports November 29, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I learned a lot from this book about both my Glock and about shooting IPSC/IDPA/GSSF/Bowling Pins, and I even got a great tip about switching to VVN350 for increased accuracy. This is a good read for anyone shooting a sport with any pistol, and even better if you shoot a GLcok. IT even covered, in depth why not to use lead in your Glock bbl, why KaBOOms happpen, PF for different bbl lenghts...
a great book on this topic September 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read many a book about this firearm and this one tops the list (all of them to the best of my knowledge). Robin Taylor has the experience and the communication ability to bundle a pile of information into the right size volume and present it readably. I'm going to go shame my areas master class GSSF shooter into picking up his copy and submitting a review here. After all Robins "seattle slug" is in more then one of the "Rhea gun"s that I've seen.
Somewhat short January 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great book for the Glock Competition users. Goes into some details on what to modify on the gun, the necessary, the useless. Could have been going into more details and variants on the modification section, but still a great book to own.
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