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Hello,
My name is Morgan Boatman, I am the coauthor - with my father, Robert Boatman - of How to Customize Your Glock. While we are working on the Glock Whisperer website, I’d like to tell you a little about our latest book.
The story behind How to Customize Your Glock is that it began as a labor of love. After my father wrote his book Living with Glocks in 2001, I started shooting Glocks too. Authoritative information about these unusual pistols was hard to come by back then. It was almost as if Gaston Glock expected his pistols to be self-explanatory because of their proclaimed “perfection.” Along with many new advances in the field of combat sidearms, one of Gaston’s most significant innovations was the notion that every shooter could be his or her own gunsmith. Before the era of Glock’s modular design, such a proposition was pretty much out of the question. So, for those who had an interest, it was suddenly a simple matter, for instance, to change trigger pull characteristics in a few minutes. The problem was finding reliable information on how to do so correctly and safely.
I have always had a natural talent in working with and understanding machines, so I didn’t find Glock maintenance or parts-substitution difficult at all. A certain friend of mine however - an expert in many other fields - was somewhat less able when it came to machinery. While Glocks don’t need as much cleaning and maintenance as other semi-autos, my friend was putting off these crucial tasks until he could avoid them no longer. I knew that running his gun filthy and with over-mileage components was inevitably going to impact reliability and longevity. Maybe even my friend’s longevity.
What seemed simple to me was a big deal for him. So I started writing out the basic procedures for maintenance. These procedures started without the aid of illustrations or photographs, so they had to be completely comprehendible just from simple and direct textual descriptions. Each step had to be a balance of simplicity and complexity so my friend would neither impatiently skip ahead nor lag behind in confusion. I sincerely wanted him to make it through each procedure thoroughly for his own safety. This little project became the kernel of How to Customize Your Glock.
After several rave reviews from shooting friends (both Glock aficionados and otherwise) I decided I would flesh-out the material into a legitimate book. The next step was therefore to support the descriptions with photos. What finally turned out to be over two-hundred photographs were taken using my personal Glock 23 as a model on a specialized lighting rig and stage that I designed and built in my garage. Each shot was composed and carefully edited by me to communicate without confusion the procedures detailed in the text. They are high-resolution images taken with the same digital camera I use for my automobile magazine work.
My father wrote introductions to each section and we submitted the manuscript to Paladin Press, publishers of my father’s other books: Living with Glocks, Living with the 1911, Living with the Big Fifty and Living with the AR-15. Our joint venture, How to Customize Your Glock has been enthusiastically received by the Glock community and has become a Paladin Press Best-Seller.
So, my unassuming little primer originally intended to simply keep my friends safe and save them money and aggravation turned into an honest-to-goodness book that has now helped over a thousand Glock enthusiasts. It will help you too.
So, for those who find themselves a little intimidated by their Glock’s accessibility, I offer this step-by-step self-help manual to build your personal confidence and foster greater familiarity with your pistol. And if you buy it from my website Customizeyourglock.com, my father and I will sign it for you.
Thank you,
Keep on Glockin’
Morgan
My name is Morgan Boatman, I am the coauthor - with my father, Robert Boatman - of How to Customize Your Glock. While we are working on the Glock Whisperer website, I’d like to tell you a little about our latest book.
The story behind How to Customize Your Glock is that it began as a labor of love. After my father wrote his book Living with Glocks in 2001, I started shooting Glocks too. Authoritative information about these unusual pistols was hard to come by back then. It was almost as if Gaston Glock expected his pistols to be self-explanatory because of their proclaimed “perfection.” Along with many new advances in the field of combat sidearms, one of Gaston’s most significant innovations was the notion that every shooter could be his or her own gunsmith. Before the era of Glock’s modular design, such a proposition was pretty much out of the question. So, for those who had an interest, it was suddenly a simple matter, for instance, to change trigger pull characteristics in a few minutes. The problem was finding reliable information on how to do so correctly and safely.
I have always had a natural talent in working with and understanding machines, so I didn’t find Glock maintenance or parts-substitution difficult at all. A certain friend of mine however - an expert in many other fields - was somewhat less able when it came to machinery. While Glocks don’t need as much cleaning and maintenance as other semi-autos, my friend was putting off these crucial tasks until he could avoid them no longer. I knew that running his gun filthy and with over-mileage components was inevitably going to impact reliability and longevity. Maybe even my friend’s longevity.
What seemed simple to me was a big deal for him. So I started writing out the basic procedures for maintenance. These procedures started without the aid of illustrations or photographs, so they had to be completely comprehendible just from simple and direct textual descriptions. Each step had to be a balance of simplicity and complexity so my friend would neither impatiently skip ahead nor lag behind in confusion. I sincerely wanted him to make it through each procedure thoroughly for his own safety. This little project became the kernel of How to Customize Your Glock.
After several rave reviews from shooting friends (both Glock aficionados and otherwise) I decided I would flesh-out the material into a legitimate book. The next step was therefore to support the descriptions with photos. What finally turned out to be over two-hundred photographs were taken using my personal Glock 23 as a model on a specialized lighting rig and stage that I designed and built in my garage. Each shot was composed and carefully edited by me to communicate without confusion the procedures detailed in the text. They are high-resolution images taken with the same digital camera I use for my automobile magazine work.
My father wrote introductions to each section and we submitted the manuscript to Paladin Press, publishers of my father’s other books: Living with Glocks, Living with the 1911, Living with the Big Fifty and Living with the AR-15. Our joint venture, How to Customize Your Glock has been enthusiastically received by the Glock community and has become a Paladin Press Best-Seller.
So, my unassuming little primer originally intended to simply keep my friends safe and save them money and aggravation turned into an honest-to-goodness book that has now helped over a thousand Glock enthusiasts. It will help you too.
So, for those who find themselves a little intimidated by their Glock’s accessibility, I offer this step-by-step self-help manual to build your personal confidence and foster greater familiarity with your pistol. And if you buy it from my website Customizeyourglock.com, my father and I will sign it for you.
Thank you,
Keep on Glockin’
Morgan
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