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goodheart |
Link: Shooting Illustrated _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | ||
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Three on, one off |
Good choice! Semper Fi! | |||
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| A day late, and a dollar short  |
I may just buy the civilian model after all. ____________________________ NRA Life Member, Annual Member GOA, MGO Annual Member | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
The P320 Carry, which is the configuration adopted as the M18, is a great duty gun. It's what I currently carry on duty. Retains the full size grip with 17 round magazine, but the slightly shorter slide makes it slightly quicker to get out of the holster and slightly more compact while sitting and moving around (at least when not using a WML), with minimal loss of muzzle velocity and sight radius. | |||
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$170 a pop? Uncle Sam is getting a helluva deal. | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Yup. $176 smackers.  | |||
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| Leatherneck |
Well I just bought the M17 and love it, I guess I’ll get the M18 too. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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Still finding my way |
So the M18 is gtg but everyone is still confused about the Glock G45. | |||
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| Leatherneck |
I get the G45 too. Just like the old commander 1911 or the Beretta Brigadier. I personally am not a fan of the configuration but then I’m not carrying in a duty holster either. I get the appeal to police and military. Especially police. I’m only interested in buying a M18 because I’m a former Marine. It will most likely spend the majority of its life in a safe. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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Beat Glock on price... ______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun… | |||
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When the will is strong, everything is easy |
Pretty sure it beat Glock on everything, except fanboys. "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." Ayn Rand | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
No need to get a whole 'nother M18, unless you really want to. Just buy a Compact/Carry slide for your existing M17. The M18 uses the same grip module, FCU, and 17 round mags. Just a slightly shorter slide. (The M17 is a Full Size slide on a Carry grip. The M18 is a Carry/Compact slide on a Carry grip.)  | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Somehow I get the feeling that that'll be like buying another upper for an AR15 - sooner or later you'll just get the complete gun. | |||
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Really depends on the grip... if it is the standard size Sig grip then I'll pass... and I really don't like that extended magazine at all. And I guess they put a safety on it for those grunts that can't learn trigger control. My Native American Name: "Runs with Scissors" | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
The military feels differently. (I also keep some 21 round extended magazines handy for my duty P320.) But they're optional, since the M17 also comes with flush 17 round magazines.  | |||
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The 320 is a great pistol and the services will do well with it. Glock will be producing a modular pistol in the next few years I do believe. The Sigs are the Legos of the gun world!  ********************** 53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Read Quod Apostolici Muneris (1878) LEO XIII. This Pope warned us about the Socialists before most folks knew what a Socialist was... | |||
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I thought the grip module for both has the full length handle {same as the Fullsize}? Otherwise wouldn't there be a space between the mag baseplate and the grip? Or is the "Carry" the full 21 shot handle with a shorter dust cover? My Fullsize appears to have the same grip module as the M17 in your pic. ********************** 53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Read Quod Apostolici Muneris (1878) LEO XIII. This Pope warned us about the Socialists before most folks knew what a Socialist was... | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Yep. The Carry grip module has the full-length 17/21 round grip, but a shorter Compact-length muzzle end and rail.
Nope. Notice the extra portion of the Full Size slide that protrudes past the end of the grip module on the M17, while your Full Size slide is flush with the end of your FDE Full Size grip module. Also, count the rail slots. The Carry (and M17) has 3 rail slots, while the Full Size has 5 rail slots. P320 Carry (M18 style)  P320 Carry grip with Full Length slide (M17 style)  P320 Full Size:  | |||
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Oh for cryin out loud. That's embarassing. Right on you are! Never noticed! All makes sense now. Thanks! I'm reminded of the whole series of .45's that led up to the 1911 and then of course the 1911A1 later. Kind of interesting to see the sort-of parallel in the development of the M17/18 today, with the P250 the sort of "Colt 1905" and the then series of changes that gave us the later 1911, or M17/18 as it were. ********************** 53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Read Quod Apostolici Muneris (1878) LEO XIII. This Pope warned us about the Socialists before most folks knew what a Socialist was... | |||
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Hmm...very good point. I was thinking the same thing. | |||
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