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Topics => 2nd Amendment/Firearms => Topic started by: Glock32 on March 19, 2015, 11:54:05 AM
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Glock has finally entered the single stack 9mm market with their new model 43. I have to admit to being a bit perplexed when they unveiled the model 42, a subcompact single stack in .380. Myself and plenty of others were like "why not make this in 9mm?"
My S&W Shield already fills this role nicely, but I still see myself wanting one of these just....because.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/03/18/official-glock-43-single-stack-9mm/ (http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/03/18/official-glock-43-single-stack-9mm/)
(http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/G43-Left-660x439.jpg)
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Glock wanting another Glock...
This ::speechless:: is my shocked face...
;D
The single-stack .380 market is full of stuff, and while there are some interesting choices (and I have more than 1 kind) I still haven't found anything more functional, comfortable and accurate than my Bersa Thunder, so...search over on that score.
In 9mm this makes sense, there are a lot of options in the high-capacity models, single stack makes perfect sense here as those offerings are less numerous, and the famous Glock reliability and performance is likely going to make it a big player, as it should.
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I have both a S&W and a Ruger in the single stack .380
They both work well and conceal well. I prefer the S&W, though, because of the integrated laser. I wanted to get the Ruger that way, too, but it wasn't available when I was buying one.
As for the 9mm, well...I decided to go down the .40SW route and just can't justify a whole other round of ammunition accumulation.
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Glock wanting another Glock...
This ::speechless:: is my shocked face...
;D
The single-stack .380 market is full of stuff, and while there are some interesting choices (and I have more than 1 kind) I still haven't found anything more functional, comfortable and accurate than my Bersa Thunder, so...search over on that score.
In 9mm this makes sense, there are a lot of options in the high-capacity models, single stack makes perfect sense here as those offerings are less numerous, and the famous Glock reliability and performance is likely going to make it a big player, as it should.
Yes, who would've guessed I'd be wanting another one ;). My user name is one of those things that I've kept just because I've used it so long now. Not exactly a lot of thought or imagination to it.
The G43 looks like it will do nothing the S&W Shield doesn't already do very well, but pistols, they're like potato chips. One thing I do love about Glocks in general is the simple, uncluttered design. I'm not a fan of manual safeties, and I like that Glock has only a mag release and a slide stop. No safety or decocking levers. S&W released a version of the Shield without a manual safety not too long after I bought mine. Wish they'd had them like that when I bought mine.
ETA - I am with you on the Bersa Thunder. I've had one for about 15 years now. Fantastic little pistols.
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Trap - "...just can't justify a whole other round of ammunition accumulation."
Yeah, I hear ya. The bottom of the lake is already pretty full, and the variety isn't bad. I do kinda wonder if as some point (if there is time) to add this flavor though, as it is arguably the most popular...from a barter or lookie what I found perspective if anything.
Glock -
"...but pistols, they're like potato chips."
It does seem that way! :D
"One thing I do love about Glocks in general is the simple, uncluttered design. I'm not a fan of manual safeties, and I like that Glock has only a mag release and a slide stop. No safety or decocking levers."
They are almost like what a first generation semi-auto should have been...no offense to John Moses Browning, I love the guy, great mind, great innovator...but for handguns coming out of Colt for example the "safety" was you, same with the Glock...load it and rack a round and when you pull and aim it the safety is your finger. There is a natural simplicity to them that is hard to hate. You look at them and they are visually underwhelming and entirely utilitarian...yet they work flawlessly, they take a beating and look at you with indifference, they feel good in the hand and don't do anything to piss you off.
"Bersa Thunder...Fantastic little pistols."
Probably not a mistake that they were founded in the mid-50's and designed models after the Walther PP & PPK's. I wondered if they had some German ex-pats in desgin and engineering, no proof I can see, though one of their early designers was a guy named Antonovich, which is Russian...but they too copied anybody they could during the war.
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AFAIK, Bersa was founded by Italian emigres to Argentina, some of whom had experience with Beretta previously.
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Could be, I forget the name now but another of their earlier designers did have a Latin surname. Anyway, they did it right, easier to pay attention to engineering details in a simple design than a complicated one.