Subsequent examination showed only minor-almost microscopic-pitting on the slide lock lever and a small, oddly shaped pit on the left-hand upper corner of the slide just forward of the grasping grooves.
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I then left the pistol on the ocean floor for a full six months, recovering it on my next trip to the area.
Accuracy began to deteriorate excessively past that range.
Have you ever done standard exercises from the holster at 3, 5 and 7 meters or multiple target drills while standing on the ocean floor 30 feet below the surface? As a sidenote, the reason I didn’t shoot past 7 meters was because the water quickly decelerated my bullets. Then there was the scenario when I installed Glock’s underwater kit and fired the weapon without a single stoppage while fully submerged. Yet, at that point, though the slide was beginning to cycle sluggishly, no stoppages attributable to the weapon itself had occurred. The first was when I reached the 10,000-round point, which was significant because I decided not to clean the weapon until it reached either 10,000 rounds or began to malfunction. I chronicled the details of my testing, but there are a few highlights that remain prominent in my mind.