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jks9199

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Spent Friday on the range... Always a good time.

Except for one thing...

And I thank KempoTex for it. ;)

See, I've been shooting Glocks as my issue sidearm for 10 years. Spent two weeks shooting a Glock nearly every day in the academy; I think I calculated that we fired something on the order of a couple of thousand rounds in the various courses of fire and drills. Never had a problem. Fired more rounds after that, qualifying several times a year, and getting the occasional practice time in. Never a problem.

Then, about 2 years or so ago, KenpoTex posts about a course he went to. Someone questions why he was wearing gloves... and he explains that he, like apparently a lot of Glock shooters, gets a blister on his middle finger, where it rests against the trigger guard. Gee, I say, I've never had a problem...

Guess what happened the next time I shot more than one or two q-courses...

Yep. Blister.

Guess what happens EVERYTIME I shoot more than a 100 rounds or so now?

Yep. Blister.

Anybody else have something like that happen? Where they never had a problem, until someone told them about it or how to fix it? Doesn't have to be limited to Glock blisters...
 

Brian R. VanCise

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Jks9199 I am upset now as like you I have shot glocks for a long, long time. Also I have never had a blister so now I am very, very concerned for the next time I go to the range. ;)
 

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Sorta.

I was reading another forum and someone was talking about having trouble getting their Kel-Tec PF9 to digest 147gr JHPs. I opined that mine works fine with them. Next time out to the range with the 147's was more like practicing TRB drills than punching holes in paper. :(

I've since moved to Pow'rBall for SD and hardball for punching paper in my PF9.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
 

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Kinda like when you knock over the Oracle's vase, right after she tells you to not worry about it. I hate when that happens! :lol:
 

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YES! I jinxed someone!...my work here is done :D

For the record, the side of my middle finger just develops a callous. It's the knuckle of my thumb that gets raw/blistered (probably from aggressively jamming my hand onto the gun during the first stage of the drawstroke).
 

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Well this is totally unrelated to firearms, but I`ve had pretty similar experiances. All together I`ve lived in Japan a little over 7 years and I speak the language fairly well, but I`m always learning new words. Someone will teach me a word or phrase and I swear I`ll never use it because I`ve never heard anyone else use it.....then I`ll hear it a half dozen times in conversations that week.
 

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