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<blockquote data-quote="druryj" data-source="post: 3030836" data-attributes="member: 10465"><p>Sure, you can take it from a <u>newer gun owner</u> OR, you can take it from a guy who is <u>not a newer gun owner</u> and who has been handling and shooting a wide variety of firearms for many years...Glock is nowhere near "behind the curve" so to speak. Now, I do not mean to denigrate the opinions of the "newer gun owner group", but real world experience in pretty much anything should and does seem to count. The bottom line on choosing a handgun is to select the firearm that <u>you</u> personally like, and can shoot well. For many, that may be a Glock. For others, a S&W M&P, a 1911, a Beretta, a Sig...etc. etc. There is no magic or rocket science to personally selecting a handgun. I can have pretty much anything I want, and I <em>choose</em> to leave the house almost every day with a basic Glock 43 on my hip. Is it the best handgun there is? Nope. But then, I do have a bit of experience going for me and I know that every handgun is not only a choice made in compromises, but chock full of limitations anyway. But that G43 darn sure will get the job done if I do my part, as will any of the above. It seems to be fashionable, among new owners as well as some who fancy themselves to be "experts", to bash certain guns; Glocks in particular. Why? Because they really are the industry leader. Everyone else is playing catch up in reality. Glocks sell. The aftermarket support is YUGE. Parts are cheap and the guns are easy to maintain. And they are very, very reliable. Glocks are <u>my</u> choice of all the polymer choices. If you like some other polymer guns better, well, that's just fine and dandy. I am not saying that the M&P or the CZ or the XD or whatever is inferior ...I just like the way the Glock pistol works, and I shoot them pretty darn well. I also like the good old 1911, there's nothing in the world wrong with that either. I mean, there's a design I can get behind all day any day. With 1911's, we can argue all day whether we need a basic gun like the superb Ruger SR1911 or a high-dollar Wilson or Ed Brown. Or how much better a Colt is than a Springer, or (you choose what ever brand you want) is better than that. You know what? Most all of us here can't really shoot the Wilson much better than the Ruger, but if you've got the spare coin and the desire to have a Wilson, or a Baer, or a Brown...go for it. So, you Glock bashers just go on and bash. The professionals and people who have been around firearms for a good number of years already know that there is no one-gun-fits-all, and yet, many of them choose the Glock pistol over all others. There's a ton of junk on the web about Glocks going kaboom and such. Don't believe everything you read. And that's all I have to say about that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="druryj, post: 3030836, member: 10465"] Sure, you can take it from a [U]newer gun owner[/U] OR, you can take it from a guy who is [U]not a newer gun owner[/U] and who has been handling and shooting a wide variety of firearms for many years...Glock is nowhere near "behind the curve" so to speak. Now, I do not mean to denigrate the opinions of the "newer gun owner group", but real world experience in pretty much anything should and does seem to count. The bottom line on choosing a handgun is to select the firearm that [U]you[/U] personally like, and can shoot well. For many, that may be a Glock. For others, a S&W M&P, a 1911, a Beretta, a Sig...etc. etc. There is no magic or rocket science to personally selecting a handgun. I can have pretty much anything I want, and I [I]choose[/I] to leave the house almost every day with a basic Glock 43 on my hip. Is it the best handgun there is? Nope. But then, I do have a bit of experience going for me and I know that every handgun is not only a choice made in compromises, but chock full of limitations anyway. But that G43 darn sure will get the job done if I do my part, as will any of the above. It seems to be fashionable, among new owners as well as some who fancy themselves to be "experts", to bash certain guns; Glocks in particular. Why? Because they really are the industry leader. Everyone else is playing catch up in reality. Glocks sell. The aftermarket support is YUGE. Parts are cheap and the guns are easy to maintain. And they are very, very reliable. Glocks are [U]my[/U] choice of all the polymer choices. If you like some other polymer guns better, well, that's just fine and dandy. I am not saying that the M&P or the CZ or the XD or whatever is inferior ...I just like the way the Glock pistol works, and I shoot them pretty darn well. I also like the good old 1911, there's nothing in the world wrong with that either. I mean, there's a design I can get behind all day any day. With 1911's, we can argue all day whether we need a basic gun like the superb Ruger SR1911 or a high-dollar Wilson or Ed Brown. Or how much better a Colt is than a Springer, or (you choose what ever brand you want) is better than that. You know what? Most all of us here can't really shoot the Wilson much better than the Ruger, but if you've got the spare coin and the desire to have a Wilson, or a Baer, or a Brown...go for it. So, you Glock bashers just go on and bash. The professionals and people who have been around firearms for a good number of years already know that there is no one-gun-fits-all, and yet, many of them choose the Glock pistol over all others. There's a ton of junk on the web about Glocks going kaboom and such. Don't believe everything you read. And that's all I have to say about that. [/QUOTE]
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