I read somewhere that the PX4 was larger than the Glock 17--I thought that was a bit odd because the PX4 seemed smaller to me. I checked the numbers and the numbers said that the PX4 was a good bit larger than the G17
Beretta's website lists the total length of the 9mm PX4 as 7.59" while the Glock manual says that the length of the Glock 17 is 7.28".
The height of the G17 according to the G17 manual is 5.35" and the Beretta PX4 manual says that the PX4 is 5.51" tall.
Overall width of the PX4 (from the manual) is 1.42" while the Glock 17's width from the G17 manual is 1.18".
Pretty straight forward, right? The PX4 is a good bit larger than a G17 in every dimension. Over a quarter of an inch longer, over a tenth of an inch taller and about a quarter of an inch thicker.
Let's look at a picture.
Hmmm, right off the bat, the Glock 17 looks a good bit longer than the PX4. Know what? IT IS!
It's about a half an inch longer because Beretta measures overall length and Glock lists the distance from the back of the slide to the muzzle of the barrel and calls that length.
What about height? The PX4 is about 1mm taller than the Glock 17 by my measurements (measured from top of sights to bottom of magazine).
The PX4 is thicker than the Glock, but not as much as the numbers above make it sound. If you don't count controls in the thickness numbers, the frames differ by 0.04"--about a millimeter.
So in reality, while the PX4 is thicker and taller than the Glock 17, it's only by about a millimeter in each dimension (not counting control levers). The biggest difference in dimension is that the PX4 is about half an inch shorter than the Glock 17. Pretty different picture from the "official" numbers.
Why the disparity? Part of it is that there are different ways to measure the length of a pistol. Part of it is that there can be measurement or data entry errors. For example, I found two different numbers for both the height & length measurements of the G17, all from official sources.
Just thought it was interesting...
Beretta's website lists the total length of the 9mm PX4 as 7.59" while the Glock manual says that the length of the Glock 17 is 7.28".
The height of the G17 according to the G17 manual is 5.35" and the Beretta PX4 manual says that the PX4 is 5.51" tall.
Overall width of the PX4 (from the manual) is 1.42" while the Glock 17's width from the G17 manual is 1.18".
Pretty straight forward, right? The PX4 is a good bit larger than a G17 in every dimension. Over a quarter of an inch longer, over a tenth of an inch taller and about a quarter of an inch thicker.
Let's look at a picture.
Hmmm, right off the bat, the Glock 17 looks a good bit longer than the PX4. Know what? IT IS!
It's about a half an inch longer because Beretta measures overall length and Glock lists the distance from the back of the slide to the muzzle of the barrel and calls that length.
What about height? The PX4 is about 1mm taller than the Glock 17 by my measurements (measured from top of sights to bottom of magazine).
The PX4 is thicker than the Glock, but not as much as the numbers above make it sound. If you don't count controls in the thickness numbers, the frames differ by 0.04"--about a millimeter.
So in reality, while the PX4 is thicker and taller than the Glock 17, it's only by about a millimeter in each dimension (not counting control levers). The biggest difference in dimension is that the PX4 is about half an inch shorter than the Glock 17. Pretty different picture from the "official" numbers.
Why the disparity? Part of it is that there are different ways to measure the length of a pistol. Part of it is that there can be measurement or data entry errors. For example, I found two different numbers for both the height & length measurements of the G17, all from official sources.
Just thought it was interesting...