I’m really down to two, which is an improvement but it’s hard to decide.
I compare them every so often and come away completely convinced that one or the other is 100% my carry gun forever. Then I change my mind on some subsequent range trip when I have a fantastic day with the other.
The fact that I’m splitting hairs so much between the two means I’m probably Ok with either. The draw times are usually identical, same with accuracy in practical drills. The 9mm (Glock 19) has slightly faster splits, but not by nearly as much as it does over my other 45s and holds more ammo. But the .45 (HK45c) once I get through the DA pull is every bit as accurate, or more, as my nice 1911s at long distance (which I’m not as good at with the Glock), is a bit safer on holstering with the long pull and a thumb on the hammer, and the big fat and slow ACP calls to me on an emotional level even though I do recognize, ballistically, it offers little improvement over the 9mm that holds twice the ammo.
Ah well, it’s not a bad problem to have. Keeps me busy at the range trying to finally prove one over the other
You are right; not a bad problem to have.
I would not worry about the split times, with a defensive pistols. For years, I said that my SIG’s “slow” DAK* trigger did not bother me, because I was responsible for every round I fired, whether on police patrol, or off the clock, in my largely urbanized environment. Well, some very wise and experienced LE/defensive trainers, such as Darryl Bolke and Wayne Dobbs, are now using the term “assessment speed” as being a best practice, to enable concentrating on better hits, and to be able to continually assess the true need for more shots to be fired. I do not remember what they say is a good split speed, but it is in the point twenties, not the point teens.
I will never be as accurate with a G19 as with a 1911. (For that matter, I realized that I would never be as accurate with a G19 as with a G17, which was a reason I traded-away my three G19 pistols, in 2020, and, I doubt I will ever shoot a G17 as accurately as I can a 1911.)
Of course, as I have posted, on THR and elsewhere, the panic-demic’s effect on my ability to regularly train has relegated my Glocks to safe-queen status, and has relegated my 1911 pistols to home-defense status, as I carry medium to large revolvers, with which I can perform better with relatively fewer training rounds, and requiring less live fire. (The huge number of long-stroke DA shots fired, in my early LEO-ing days, produced an effect which never seems to totally go away.)
*Notably, DAK was my personal choice. Most of my colleagues who opted for SIG duty pistols chose DA/SA. Notably, the ones who tended to go for DAK were the heavy hitters, such as on the narcotics raid team, who tended to get into plenty of real-world shootings.