Don't know quite why, but lately I have been trading off my poly-framed handguns and am returning to steel or aluminium frames. I've owned and shot handguns for over thirty years now and for the last 15 years my predominant frame choice has been synthetic.
I've owned several poly Rugers, several XD's and have considered many other poly-framed guns along the way, but I have lost my infatuation with the idea that a few ounces of weight saved and a few dollars saved too is the big attraction it used to be in a plastic-framed gun.
I bought my first all-metal gun in a long time recently. I purchased a S&W 3913 (compact 9mm single stack DA/SA) and love the feel of the alloy frame and the extra few ounces of weight gives the gun a better balance to me and I am back on target a little quicker during rapid fire I think.
I may still buy a poly-framed gun again if a particular gun attracts me, but I really think that I am going to return to my original handgun roots, that is, all-metal auto-loaders both now and in the future.
There is just something very satisfying about all-metal construction that a poly-gun never gives me.
I've owned several poly Rugers, several XD's and have considered many other poly-framed guns along the way, but I have lost my infatuation with the idea that a few ounces of weight saved and a few dollars saved too is the big attraction it used to be in a plastic-framed gun.
I bought my first all-metal gun in a long time recently. I purchased a S&W 3913 (compact 9mm single stack DA/SA) and love the feel of the alloy frame and the extra few ounces of weight gives the gun a better balance to me and I am back on target a little quicker during rapid fire I think.
I may still buy a poly-framed gun again if a particular gun attracts me, but I really think that I am going to return to my original handgun roots, that is, all-metal auto-loaders both now and in the future.
There is just something very satisfying about all-metal construction that a poly-gun never gives me.