Glock 28

Dont need it.But want it and I dont know why. Who has one, opinions,experience,What is cool is it uses same holster as my G26.I have a G42 guess Im a Glockaholic.
Can you buy them in the U.S. now? Thought they weren’t bringing them in back in the day, but guess things always change.
 
The G28 is the softest shooting .380 I've owned. One potential downside is that it uses the same recoil spring as the 9mm G26, so ejection can be kind of weak. I swapped mine out for a well used G26 spring and haven't had any problems.
 
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It was on a list of mine and is and still is under consideration for a locked breech .380@ but I think I'm gonna go with the Ruger Security 380 as it's a bit less and I've got Glock fatigue.

It will definitely be soft shooting, but due them being built on a G26 frame it will be quite thicker than most other comparable 380s.

I would still buy one.
 
Unless you are a collector and just have to have one of each model, there is not a single good reason to buy a Glock 25 or 28. If you are a collector, get both.

The 25 is the same size and magazine capacity as the 19, the 28 the same size and magazine capacity as the 26.
-.380 ammunition is always more expensive than 9x19.
-9x19 magazines are available in nearly every LGS in America, being literally the most popular pistol magazine in history. Good luck finding a Glock 28 mag in Amarillo.


Until Glock USA made a run, the G25/28 were only importable for LE sales in the US. That was laughable because LE choosing a G25/28 as a backup gun or duty weapon vs the 9x19 was beyond stupid. Literally none did, making the Austrian G25/28 very collectible among civilians because of the scarcity.

Currently neither Glock USA or Glock EU list the 25/28..........because it just doesn't sell.
 
It was on a list of mine and is and still is under consideration for a locked breech .380@
It's not a locked breech, its a straight blowback.
"Due to the relatively low bolt thrust of the .380 ACP cartridge, the locked-breech design of the Glock 19 and Glock 26 was minimally modified for the Glock 25 and Glock 28 to implement unlocked breech operation. It operates via straight blowback of the slide. This required modification of the locking surfaces on the barrel, as well as a redesign of the former locking block. Unusual for a blowback design, the barrel is not fixed to the frame. It moves rearward in recoil until it is tilted below the slide, similar to the standard locked-breech system. The reduced size and mass of the Glock 42 allowed for the return to the Glock-standard locked-breech design."
 
It's not a locked breech, its a straight blowback.
"Due to the relatively low bolt thrust of the .380 ACP cartridge, the locked-breech design of the Glock 19 and Glock 26 was minimally modified for the Glock 25 and Glock 28 to implement unlocked breech operation. It operates via straight blowback of the slide. This required modification of the locking surfaces on the barrel, as well as a redesign of the former locking block. Unusual for a blowback design, the barrel is not fixed to the frame. It moves rearward in recoil until it is tilted below the slide, similar to the standard locked-breech system. The reduced size and mass of the Glock 42 allowed for the return to the Glock-standard locked-breech design."

So it operates similarly to the Glock G44 then.
 
Glock might call the G25 and G28 as "straight blowback" pistols, but the way the barrel tilts just like a locked breech G19 or G26, the G25 and G28 are really modified blowback or hybrid blowback pistols.

My G25 is a soft shooter. Softer than the .380s I've fired with fixed barrels for sure.

Post showing barrel tilt here.

Post describing shooting the G25 compared to a G19 here.

Both from this thread. Glock 25-?
 
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Unless you are a collector and just have to have one of each model, there is not a single good reason to buy a Glock 25 or 28. If you are a collector, get both.

Sure there is. Planning for the future when I expect I won't be able to handle 9mm recoil. I didn't want to get a .22 WMR autoloader and I wasn't drawn to the locked breech .380s made by other makers for my own personal reasons.

The Glock 25 won for me. I've fired it for function testing, cleaned it, bought spare magazines, and set it aside for my future.
 
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The G28 is the softest shooting .380 I've owned. One potential downside is that it uses the same recoil spring as the 9mm G25, so ejection can be kind of weak. I swapped mine out for a well used G26 spring and haven't had any problems.
No the 28 does not use the same recoil spring as the 25. The 25 has a single spring. The 28 has a dual recoil spring.
 
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