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Originally posted by burnetma:
As for Glocks, I shoot them as well as any other pistol, but I will never carry a striker fired pistol that does not have a manual safety or preferably multiple safeties due to risk of negligent discharge when holstering. Unsafe guns have no place in my safe.

Rolls eyes. Nothing unsafe about a Glock. Except if they are handled by untrained idiots.

Easy. Get more training. If you shot 1000 rounds in a defensive pistol class using a Glock, I highly doubt you would still find it such an unsafe pistol, a hand grenade just waiting to go off at the lightest flinch. They are safe pistols. They don't just go off. I've had a Glock in my pocket for years and years. Totally safe.

I don't even own a pistol with a safety on it. And I sure wouldn't carry a pistol with a safety on it. I value my life too much to do so.

I wasn't gonna get dragged into this one, but I guess I'm bored.

Smudge, I get what you're saying. My general advice to a new shooter is try a Glock first. If they work well for you, just go that route. If not, then open up the door to the plethora of other options. But the only way I see a Glock ending up in my safe or on my hip is if I'm being paid for it and don't have a choice.

Last year, I went and shot a bunch of the current striker offerings. 15 rounds each. Many of the pistols it was my first time trying them, but some I'd shot before or a version of them.

Like the VP9:

FNS:

RAP:

P320:

XDM:


And then the Glock:


And I actually cheated with the Glock, and the pic above was a second set of 15 because the first was kind of a mess. No grouping at all. I had to reshoot to make sure it was me (it was). But it took a lot of concentration to overcome what is an unnatural (for me) grip and grip angle. Even still, you can see I'm stringing vertically.

I did similar vertical stringing with the Steyr. Though some of that I credit to the unusual sights.


So while I generally agree with your point that feels aren't everything, they certainly can mean something.